Genoa feat who won their first home victory and with a practically perfect performance beat down Mourinho’s Roma, for whom it wasn’t enough to end the match with four attackers to undermine the rossoblù’s success. Cristante’s illusory equalizer after Gudmundsson’s initial goal did not make the defeat any less bitter for the Giallorossi who suffered their second at the end of the first half, Retegui, and then collapsed in the second half under the blows of Thorsby and Messias. And at the final whistle there was no shortage of protest from the two thousand Giallorossi fans who had arrived in Genoa. Gilardino lines up Genoa with the 3-5-2, surprisingly inserting the very young Matturro, born in 2004, on his debut in Serie A.
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While Mourinho relies on Pellegrini and Dybala behind Lukaku. Rossoblù who, carried away by the home crowd, immediately started strong. In the 4th minute Llorente beat Retegui by a whisker but a minute later the home team took the lead. Strootman recovers the ball in the midfield and serves Gudmundsson in the area who beats Rui Patricio with a precise left-footed low shot. Strengthened by the advantage, Genoa pushes and in the 9th minute Frendrup comes close to a cross from Strootman in the small area. As the minutes passed, however, Roma raised their center of gravity also because Genoa lost Badelj due to muscular problems already in the tenth minute. And in the 22nd minute the guests equalised. Spinazzola on the left gets rid of Sabelli and delivers a perfect cross for the insertion of Cristante who surprises everyone with a header. Shortly afterwards, Llorente was also out due to a muscle injury, while Bove was replaced by Cristante while Genoa also lost Strootman with a flexor problem, replaced by Kutlu. Roma now controls the game but without realizing and in the final Genoa regains the advantage. Thanks to Gudmundsson who starts from midfield, gets rid of three opponents in dribbles and serves Thorsby, the Norwegian serves Retegui with first intention who controls and beats Rui Patricio. More changes in the interval with De Winter for Sabelli and Belotti for Mancini and Roma aggressive in search of an equalizer. But it was the hosts, after controlling the Giallorossi’s fury, who took the lead again in the 29th minute with Thorsby hitting the ball at the far post which was extended by Dragusin following a Gudmundsson corner and in the 36th minute Messias sealed the deal by making his rossoblù debut with an assist of Frendrup and giving poker to his team. Mourinho ends the match with four attackers but collects practically nothing except the protest and the thought of finding himself with five points, three defeats and eleven goals conceded in six matches.
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