Tenth place in the rankings. Only ten points after 8 days of the championship, the result of two victories, as many defeats and four draws. With only 8 goals scored, very few, and 6 conceded. There Romealso thanks to the ongoing change on the bench between Daniele De Rossi and Ivan Juric, a championship hasn’t started so badly in fourteen years. Just think, there was no American ownership yet: obviously not the current one, but not even the previous one by Pallotta. It was still the Roma of the Senses and Claudio Ranieri was on the bench. In short, you have to go back to 2010 to find such a negative start to the championship on the part of the Giallorossi.
In general, since the three points for victory have existed, only four times Roma – we read in today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport – a championship started worse: again at 9 in 2004/05, famous for the five coaches and the near relegation despite a trident made up of Totti, Cassano and Montella; the next one, that of the Spalletti refoundation, is still at 9; and the incredible 7 of 2008/09, which would have effectively marked the end of the same project.
Going back to the goals scored, we said that they are very few. And the comparison with the past also bears witness to this. There have never been so few since 1991, 33 years ago: 8 in 8 days. At the moment Roma have the fourteenth attack in Serie A together with Cagliari, despite being the team that shoots towards goal the most (131 according to League data).