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ROMA GENOA OPPONENTS – Goodbye Olimpico, the slogan of this match against Genoa, the last at home for Roma this season. And the public will once again have to help the Giallorossi, who cannot make mistakes to keep a small hope of the Champions League alive.
Genoa recalls old ‘wounds’
Genoa, you will remember, did not tell Roma on the pitch in the first leg. One of the grayest matches for the Giallorossi this year, the 4-1 defeat in Liguria. Now the ‘Grifone’ team is sailing in calm waters in the standings and in terms of objectives they don’t have much to ask of the championship. However, this does not make them less dangerous, even if their performance away from home is not the best: 4 wins out of 18, against Lazio, Sassuolo, Salernitana and Verona.
An old acquaintance from Trigoria plays in the rossoblù, Kevin Strootman, who still shows his affection for the Giallorossi colours, and has already found an assist at the start of the season. From this year, Gilardino’s team also has an Azzurro centre-forward, Mateo Retegui, flagship of the signing campaign and second in the squad for goals scored (7) behind Alfred Gudmundsson (14), who scored a goal in the first leg against Roma and forcefully entered the transfer radar.
Strengths and weaknesses
It is possible that Genoa ‘hands over’ the ball at Roma’s feet, given that the Ligurians are among the teams that keep the ball the least in Serie A (24′ 22″ on average per match) and shoot towards goal the least (376), given that he has not improved compared to the first part of the season. However, watch out for the end of the first half and the beginning of the second, as many as 24 goals out of 43 came in that half hour of play. The defense is perhaps the phase in which the ‘Grifone’ is becoming most effective, but towards the end of the match, from the 75th minute onwards, it is the moment in which it is most fragile. In fact, 14 of the 44 goals conceded so far have come in the final quarter of an hour.
The Rose
GOALKEEPERS
- 16 Nicola Leali
- 1 Josep Martinez (SPA)
- 39 Daniele Sommariva
- 38 Calvani
DEFENDERS
- 13 Mattia Bani
- 4 Koni De Winter (BEL)
- 55 Ridgecian Haps (SUR)
- 13 Mattia Bani
- 20 Stefano Sabelli
- 33 Alan Matturro (URU)
- 90 Djed Spence (ENG)
- 22 Johan Vasquez (MEX)
- 14 Alessandro Vogliacco
MIDFIELDS
- 47 Milan Badelj (CRO) .
- 32 Morten Frendrup (DAN) .
- 11 Albert Gudmundsson (ISLA) .
- 41 Christos Papadopoulos (GRE)
- 5 Emil Bohinen (NOR)
- 17 Ruslan Malinovskyi (UCR) .
- 8 Kevin Strootman (OLA) .
- 2 Morten Thorsby (NOR) .
ATTACKERS
- 18 Caleb Ekuban (GHA) .
- 10 Junior Messias (BRA).
- 18 Caleb Ekuban (GHA)
- 30 David Ankeye (NIG)
- 19 Mateo Retegui .
Typical training
(3-5-2) Martinez, Vogliacco, De Winter, Vasquez; Sabelli, Thorsby, Badelj, Frendrup, Martin; Gudmundsson, Retegui All.: Gilardino
M.Teresa Tonazzi
