Roma – Lazio 2-0

Roma was smart as wrote the excellent Daniele Lo Monaco on Il Romanistaabove all he made an excellent defensive phase and then hit on the counterattack. Daniele is an excellent journalist who sees the natural evolution of Italian football in the European offensive game.

However, allow me to disagree. If you are the Real Madrid or the Barcelona of a few years ago, thanks to the quality of the players, you can dominate with any opponent, but Neymar and Mbappè's PSG also used defense and counterattack against Bayern Munich. If you recognize that the opponent is equal or superior on a technical level and trust in their abilities, you can win games even with defense and counter-attack and there is nothing to be ashamed of.

Indeed, playing with 9 players in the opposing half when there were a few minutes to 1-0, thanks to Mkhi's goal on a splendid assist from Dzeko, I found it an arrogant attitude that could be punished. Fortunately, Pedrito's beautiful 2-0 goal arrived. In general, all of our players have played well, but a special mention goes to Darboe who plays with the gasconry of youngs this important appointments.

In general, even after such a beautiful victory, so important, flavored by rivalry (and the Lazio supporters were very impressed, seeing the reactions on the web), regret remains, however, for such an insufficient second leg. If we had kept the rhythm of the first leg (38 points), we would have been there fighting for the Champions League zone (76 points?) And instead we come to the last day with Lazio-Sassuolo and Spezia-Roma to play the Conference League with the Sassuolo, with us at +2 on Sassuolo and Lazio sure of the EL and with nothing to play for (and with the precedents of this club with a poor sporting culture). It is therefore clear that we will have to win, but Roma in recent weeks, either because of the Mou effect, or to greet Fonseca worthily, seem to be capable of winning. Imperative. Daje Roma!