Roma – Bologna 1-0

Match from railway after-work for quality and competitive spirit. Roma played the first half badly and the second half well enough without closing the game. Mainly we were good in the defensive phase and Borjita was good at ...

Sunday opponent: the Bologna FC.

Mihajlovic deploys the 4231 with pressing in many phases (from the opponent's goal kick it becomes a 442 with Soriano striker). They suffer from pressing. It is not only a good test to prepare for the second leg with Ajax, but it could be an important match for ...

Ajax – Roma 1-2

Great. great game of all. Good with the remuntada. We went behind due to a mistake by Diawara, a mistake that often makes the one of the soft pass, with the consequent goal from Klaassen. (1-0). It must be said that, however, apart from this error, ...

Thursday opponent: Ajax.

The hero portrayed in the Ajax symbol is a hero of Greek mythology, Ajax Telamonius, so called to differentiate himself from Ajax Oileo. He was a cousin of Achilles, very tall, very strong, very brave. Master with the spear, he won the javelin throw ...

Sassuolo – Roma 2-2

Roma played well with some players like Mancini and Karsdorp and were completely inadequate with others. Besides, they had several absences like Berardi, Caputo, Locatelli, Muldur and Ferrari. Honor to Sassuolo who always plays to win against ...

Saturday opponent: Sassuolo.

De Zerbi deploys a 4231 that becomes 451 in the defensive phase (even if it is rare because they often press). The major point guard is Locatelli (right), but he suffers from the pressure. They can also build with Ferrari, as @zarcozilesi suggests. With pressing, if ...

The stereo vision.

Very often in football and in sport in general, one of the differences between a champion and a good player is making the right choice. This means that 1) The coach must prepare a scheme (and the team mates must free themselves) so ...

Roma – Napoli 0-2

It's hard to find the right words after a match like this, but on one thing, Fonseca is right: everyone's responsibility. The biggest mistake would be to give the cross to the individual, when we are all wrong. Pedro often carried too much ball. ...

Sunday's opponent: the Napoli.

Gattuso deploys 4231, which can also be read as 433. They play attack horizontally (which they prefer) and vertically, they do well and suffer pressure, but they have a good defense (perhaps not a good defensive phase, in the sense that ...

Shakhtar D. – Roma 1-2

Era importante vincere per allenare la concentrazione come dice anche Marocchi: più giochi concentrato, più in futuro non perderai la concentrazione quando servirà. La costruzione dal basso e la fase difensiva ha dimostrato che Bryan Cristante può essere soprannominato er…

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