There Rome beats 1-0 Genoa in the last match of the season at the Olympic Stadium and secures sixth place in the standings. “This is the value of the current Roma and people know it well. Only the spirit is the right one and it was also seen against Genoa“, the comment of Ugo Trani on the columns of Corriere dello Sport. Paolo Condoinstead, focuses on Romelu Lukakuscorer of the decisive goal in yesterday’s match and destined to leave the Giallorossi at the end of the season: “It is significant that the goal came from Lukaku, probably at the end of the credits in the Giallorossi after a more than honest season.” Tony Damascelli It’s about Paulo Dybala in today’s edition of Il Giornale: “Roma overtakes Lazio for the Europa League but Argante-Dybala only needs ten minutes to return ill.”
Here are the comments of some of the most important commentators in the press, published in the columns of the newspapers on newsstands today.
U. TRANI – CORRIERE DELLO SPORT
The audience sings and accompanies the Giallorossi to the finish line. It doesn’t matter that it’s only sixth place, with the certainty of at least finishing ahead of Lazio. This is the value of current Rome and people know it well. Only the spirit is the right one. It was also seen against Genoa. […] It will be necessary to intervene in every department. The only real certainty is in goal. We need purchases of performance, depth, substance and quality. Starting with the full-backs, running is needed on the sides and also in midfield. And finally we will need to find a new center forward. Abraham is not enough and must be said immediately. […] Especially to those who continue to show up at the Olimpico. Yet another sold out, number 57 since the reopening of the stadiums with one hundred percent capacity. The Giallorossi fans even surpassed themselves with the seasonal attendance record: 67,334. From applause. […]
G. D’UBALDO – CORRIERE DELLO SPORT
[…] The three points obtained against Genoa, thanks to Lukaku’s late goal, allow us to secure sixth place and still cultivate a small hope for the Champions League. It will depend on the Europa League final and Atalanta’s league placement.
There were other objectives set at the beginning of the season. The truth is that the team built amidst enormous difficulties in respecting the Financial Fair Play standards focused on two elements that should have made the difference: Dybala and Lukaku. […] Unfortunately their performance did not live up to expectations. La Joya was unable to contribute in the crucial phase of the season. Lukaku made many appearances, but his performance in the second half of the season was insufficient. […] To build a more competitive team you will need players who can be decisive in the important moments of the season. […]
M. EVANGELISTI – CORRIERE DELLO SPORT
[…] Sixth place corresponds to the value of the squad and means being able to still cultivate the great illusion that a hand from heaven will arrive, that of the Goddess if not that of God, and that it will transport the club into the most breathable airs of the Champions League. […] From time to time, and always astonished, we discover people in a bad mood because they suspect that De Rossi was hired with the aim of making the separation from Mourinho easier for his supporters to swallow. De Rossi was the only professional coach available with the right face and charisma suited to the mission, regardless of his professional CV, which in his case was still slim. There couldn’t have been a more appropriate choice for him, and later, as soon as DDR proved he could do the job, there couldn’t have been an alternative to confirming it. […] There was and is no reason not to have faith in De Rossi. […] Specifically, there are no other certainties. Yesterday in the sweaty end of the season against Genoa all the limits of quality, personality, imagination and power of this Roma were exposed as if in the review of a boring lesson. […]
It will be a different team in many respects that he will face next season. A new beginning, led by a management that seems to know its stuff, from Friedkin to Souloukou, could sweep away from the stomach that unpleasant feeling of perpetual waiting, of living in a dusty construction site with an unpredictable closing date.
P. CONDÒ – THE REPUBLIC
A championship in which everything happened is drawing to a close, from Inter’s victory with a record margin (19 points over Milan with one round to go) to the unimaginable extent of the collapse of the defending champions (Naples lost 35 points along the way) , from the dismissal of two sacred monsters such as Allegri and Mourinho (8 championships overall) to the spectacular and profitable football of two non-metropolitan clubs, Bologna and Atalanta, who will rightly play in the Champions League. […] Roma have earned the exclusive rights to the possible sixth pass
Champions thanks to an agonizing victory over Genoa, 10 against 11 after Paredes lost his nerves, in the last gasp of a spring that left them short on energy. It is significant that the goal came from Lukaku, probably at the end of the credits in the Giallorossi after a more than honest season. […]
T. DAMASCELLI – IL GIORNALE
[…] Roma overtakes Lazio for the Europa League but Argante-Dybala only needs ten minutes to return ill. The infernal circle of salvation condemns, after 11 years, Sassuolo and
predicts three terrible matches, Verona-Inter, Frosinone-Udinese, Empoli-Roma. I hope all at the same time and without VAR.
