Roma had only added one point in the first three days and was surprisingly in the relegation zone of Serie A, but today they got out of it with a convincing performance against bottom club Empoli, whom they humiliated 7-0, their biggest win with Jose Mourinho as a coach
It was a great night for Roma. Mourinho was able to line up together for the first time Romelu Lukakuwho made his debut since he arrived from Chelsea, and Paulo Dybala, recovered from his muscular discomfort. Both the Belgian and the Argentine, this one twice, scored.
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Very soon the game turned to Roma. Barely 37 seconds into the game when a cross from the right of Rasmus Kristensen hit the arm of a naive man Sebastian Walukiewiczwho mismeasured the bounce of the ball. Dybala He converted the maximum penalty and opened the scoring.
Renato Sanches, another newcomer who marks
Another newcomer who was playing his first game as a starter after overcoming an injury, Renato Sanchesstood out in Roma’s overwhelming start and scored 2-0 after another cross from Kristensen that the Portuguese, coming from behind, headed alone into the net (8′).
Roma continued to easily reach the Empoli area with fast and fluid play. Leandro Paredes He was on the verge of achieving a spectacular Olympic goal when he took a corner to the far post that bounced off the woodwork.
Luck was not on the side of an Empoli team that adds up its games through defeats. Bryan Cristante burst into the area after making the wall with Lukaku and Bartosz Bereszynskiin his attempt to cut off his advance, cleared the ball against the body of his teammate Alberto Grassi in an incredible own goal (35′).
Dybala scores a great goal and is close to the hat trick
After the break, Roma returned to the fray. Dybala made its great quality evident when receiving Cristante and sat down two defenders with a magnificent cut that left him alone Etrit Berisha before beating him low (55′).
Dybala He scored the hat trick with a free-kick that hit the crossbar and moments later he was substituted.
Empoli only worried Rui Patricio in two consecutive shots. First with a header from the newcomer Francesco Caputo that blocked the Portuguese goal next to the post and later in a whiplash from outside the area Tommaso Baldanzo, who had also just jumped onto the field, which hit the post.
Belotti’s assists
Two scares that Roma responded with three more goals. Andrea Belotti He took advantage of the minutes that Mourinho gave him as a replacement Dybala for two assists. The first delaying the ball to Cristante for him to unleash an unstoppable howitzer from outside the area (79′).
three minutes later Belotti led a counter and served 6-0 to Lukaku, which he scored at will. There was still time for a seventh goal, the work of the central defender Gianluca Mancini when heading a corner that he combed Cristante (87′).
One of Mourinho’s biggest goals
The 7-0 is Mourinho’s biggest win with Roma and one of the biggest in his 1,109 official games as a coach. In 2010, at the head of Real Madrid, he beat Levante 8-0.
Rome: Rui Patrick; Mancini, Ndicka, Crying; Christensen, Christian, Walls (Pagano, m.75), Spinazzola (El Shaarawy, m.83); Renato Sanches (Bove, 46), Dybala (Belotti, 64); Lukaku (Azmoun, m.83).
Empoli: Berisha; Bereszynski, Walukiewicz (Ismajli, m.46), Luperto, Pezzella; Maleh, Grassi, Fazzini (Bastoni, m.46); Cancellieri (Baldanzi, m.60), Caputo (Destro, m.60) and Cambiaghi (Shpendi, m.84).
Goals: 1-0, m.2: Dybala, from the penalty. 2-0, m.8: Renato Sanches. 3-0, m.35: Destro, own goal, 4-0, m.55: Dybala; 5-0, m.80: Cristante; 6-0, m.82: Lukaku; 7-0, m.86: Mancini.
Referee: Juan Luca Sacchi. Admonished Dybala (m.38) and Sanches (m.39), for Roma; and Cancellieri (m.39) and Maleh (m.58), from Empoli.
Incidents: Match of the fourth day of the Italian Serie A played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
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2023-09-18 05:09:28
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