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Blog: Roma-Juve the match of the year? Yes, among the worst …

A match that is more daring than he remembers, especially if the two teams that compete on the pitch are the worst or the worst ones of the Italian big names. Rome and Juventus after years and years of controversy, especially in the Giallorossi home against the Bianconeri, yesterday there was really nothing to complain about, on the contrary, especially if the match is lost or complicated with one’s own hands. It must be said that some in the post-game comments, on TV, radio and on the street, there are even those who have associated this match with the monumental Germany-Italy 3-4 in Mexico, which literally makes even those who never laugh.

The two teams met yesterday with a really bad score, counting that at the beginning of the season they seem to be two of the top four, even Roma, which with the arrival of Josè Mourinho should be Inter’s alter ego for the Scudetto, while Juventus gave it a safe fourth place. The situation, however, can be seen in a short time and the two teams tumbled from the beginning of the season with very low level teams, and in the end they find themselves on January 9, 2021 to compete for the Europa League areas from the fifth to the seventh, Juventus has three points more than Roma, but a squad really at the limit, counting that there are several arrows missing from the bow of mister Allegri, above all Leonardo Bonucci, Alex Sandro and Danilo, in addition to the departure from the bench of Alvaro Morata, who at a distance of less than twenty-four hours we still wonder why, while on the pitch we see Rugani alongside De Ligt and Moise Kean at the center of the Juventus attack that really makes us reflect and not a little, after a first part of the championship below the sufficiency.
On the contrary, Roma is spoiled for choice ... and put in the typical team, with the newcomer Maitland-Niles from the first minute on the right wing. With the bowls stopped, Roma do not have the victory in their pockets, but much more chances, fans included, to bring home the three points. The game starts immediately with a thousand and Roma takes the lead in the eleventh with Abraham who exploits an indecision of Rugani, a cry as always, and anticipates him with his head and puts in the net, overcoming innocent Sczscesny. But it seems like a back and forth, so on the eighteenth from Chiesa to Dybala on the edge of the left area around with the ball not quite low and the ball behind Rui Patricio, who brings the game back in a draw. Then from the eighteenth to the end of the first half, Roma have the ball in their hands and Juventus seems to be the sack to hit right and left. In the second half Roma put the arrow back, just two minutes after the return to the field here is that the Armenian Mkhitaryan, also due to the deviation of De Sciglio, brings Roma back to 2-1.
The match is then played in tears on both sides, but then in the 52nd, from a free kick from the left of the big area, if I’m not mistaken twenty-twenty-five meters from the goal, Lorenzo Pellegrini invents a pearl of rare beauty, placing it under the intersection of the goalposts, with Sczcesny who stretches out but can do nothing: 3-1. In the meantime, Juventus had to do without the Church, who even seems to risk a long stop; we are talking about six months. The game seems to cut the legs of Juventus, which in that state and with a mentality equal to zero this season, seems to be at the limit of breath, starting again to see inattention and elementary wrong steps.
But here is that the game changes with the entry of Alvaro Morata on the field, who replaces a non-existent Moise Kean, he had not rubbed a ball that was one, running most of the time empty, and here at the sixty-ninth from a harmless ball from the right with a couple of feints he overcomes Vina in dribbling and puts it in the center where Locatelli all alone with a header puts her on the net: 3-2. Juventus seems transformed, certainly not into a champion but into a team that has seen the red flag and has fiery eyes ready to hit the opponent.
So here at minute seventy-one, in one of the many advanced, Locatelli implements Cuadrado in the penalty area, who hits the back of the head and puts it in the center where Morata tows and shoots, the ball is hit by Smalling and ends up on the feet of Kulusevski, who had replaced Chiesa at the first half, and the ball sacks under the crossbar. The Var checks the position of Morata, a few minutes pass, and then the referee Chiffi signals the regularity of the position and the network: 3-3.
Morata seems to be the Dybala of the situation, also because the Argentine jewel after the net seems to have turned off, and so here at the seventy-six minute on the left wing, he exchanges with McKennie, and the American sees De Sciglio wedging in the area he serves. with a lob, the ex Milan winger after Smalling’s empty head, puts it down and places the ball to the right of Rui Patricio who can do nothing from close range. Game overturned: 3-4. Over? But not even for a dream, because in the seventy-nine minute a ball thrown in the center by Matland-Niles and a straight overhead shot by Pellegrini, finds De Ligt’s opposition to Abraham’s shot, and after a few seconds the referee Chiffi stops the action and goes to the Var, where you can see the clear hand ball of De Ligt, who has already been booked and sent off, Juve in 10 and a penalty for Roma. Pellegrini places the ball from eleven meters, but the concentration seems only on the ball, since he does not take his eyes off him and does not notice that at the shot Sczcesny is already on the ground to his right and replies the conclusion, which then returns to the feet of the Giallorossi captain who eats a goal scored and a possible draw.
Then the game ends, with Juventus often going to the opponent’s corner to waste time. Triple whistle and everyone at home.
Juventus wins in Rome and repositioned itself in fifth place at -3 from fourth at Atalanta, and Roma remain in sixth place paired with Fiorentina and Lazio at 32, thanks to the fall of Lazio at Inter, and waiting to know if Fiorentina, today on the field in Florence against Turin, winning the detachment of three points.


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