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The match lasts only one half, the Ligurian team is overwhelmed in the first 30 minutes, then risks conceding a goal. In the second half Ekhator closes the gap
Go and trust your friends. Summer 2024, Daniele De Rossi he coached Roma and forcefully asked the Friedkins for only two players on the market: Soulé and Koné. Life is strange: a year and a half later the Argentine and the Frenchman managed the match – 2-0 after just 19 minutes – and ruined the evening for the current Genoa coach on the day of his return to the Olimpico.
An evening of tributes, to be honest: that of the Roma fans to their idol, visibly emotional before and after the match, with the tour of the pitch to greet his people. But even Genoa’s tributes are all to Gian Piero Gasperini: his mistakes are unwatchable Vasquez e Malinovskyi which resulted in the first and third goals. The rossoblù’s third consecutive defeat has a decidedly different flavor compared to those against Inter and Atalanta: a soft, incomprehensible attitude for a team that is fighting for salvation. Credit, it must be said, also goes to a Roma team that approached the match in the best possible way.
Gasperini was full of absences, last Baldanzi due to fever, so much so that the highly criticized Ferguson was brought back from the start. But they still found a way to respond to Juventus: they overtook the league table, regained fourth place and showed good overall signs, at the end of a month in which Roma had lost three of their last four matches.
A necessary victory, as Gasperini had explained the day before. And victory it was. Result never in question, with a Kone on the shields and author – he who has a terrible relationship with the opponent’s goal – of the first goal in the championship. However, Soulé had taken the lead five minutes earlier, adjusting a missed header from Vasquez on his left, also thanks to a less than perfect intervention from Sommariva. Side curiosity, for lovers of details: Roma’s goal came just as the Curva Sud, the heart of the Giallorossi fans, raised the first banner in homage to De Rossi. A signal, who knows.
He also sent it as a signal Ferguson: stylistically revisable goal and a performance full of ups and downs, but the Irishman still scored and certainly not with a tailwind at his back. Roma is looking for attackers on the market, Gasperini will most likely have both Raspadori and Zirkzee. But in the meantime he does with what he has. Fourth place is his, certainly not put at risk even by Genoa’s second half which in the final scored the 3-1 goal with Ekathor (conclusion deflected by Pisilli). And the strong impression that it will be a long sprint for the Champions League.
December 29, 2025 (changed December 29, 2025 | 11:01 pm)
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