Roma – Spezia 4-3

Let's start from the end. We are already in injury time, Roma have just conceded the 3-3 goal from the former Green, but build an excellent action: Spina's descent, cross, Brunetto collects and puts in for Lorenzo who scores the final 4-3 goal .

It is quite easy to make the comparison between Giannini and Pellegrini: for the position on the pitch, for the ease in assisting and because he had less quality than Totti, but had more personality. In 1988-89, the Prince scored the 2-0 penalty with Partizan who decided our qualification and "La Roma", the club's official monthly, titled "Che pasta del Capitano" (taking the name of a well-known toothpaste that I liked it a lot). For this reason, today I title the presentation post like this.

Pellegrini, already from the interview in the pre-match, said how important it was to win, but he was not the only one who played well. Borja Majoral (who scored a double), Spina, Brunetto, Cristante, Gonzalito and Rick Karsdorp (who scored the 3-1 goal) also played well.

Ci sono stati ancora errori pesanti. Specialmente abbiamo sbagliato con la linea difensiva, che ha fatto sbagli tremendi [specialmente nel primo gol (Piccoli) e nel terzo gol (Verde)]. Il loro migliore giocatore è stato Farias (autore del secondo gol).

Pau Lopez was wrong (even if it is very useful in the construction phase). We need to be more responsive and focused. We allow too many ball recoveries on the second balls on the referrals. Carles Perez and in general in the attacking phase we miss too many assists perhaps because we play little with our heads held high. In this we must learn from Veretout who is very good at catching Borjita on the occasion of his second goal.

We need to reward give-and-go more. It's okay to look for the third man, but that shouldn't be the only option, we can also reward the inclusion of whoever gave us the ball. If we are stereophonic, if we choose ambivalently on this and other occasions, we are less predictable.

Roma can fight for the Scudetto, only if we settle the quarrel between Fonseca and Dzeko (we are -6 from Milan first, in the worst case scenario). Edin is also needed. My opinion is that Dzeko is not completely wrong. Fonseca had to take more responsibility for the Coppa Italia mess, but now we must all be united on our targets. This victory was propitiated, as well as by the Captain, by a great performance by Borja: we will have to take this into account. We must be all united for victory. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi