Even for Roma, that period of the season has begun to experience everything in apneathe one with matches every three days, championship and cup matches and lots and lots of tension to try to finally grab the positive results. This is why the big match against Tottenham doesn’t exactly fall at the best moment, after Napoli and before Atalanta, but above all during Claudio Ranieri’s first days of actual work with the whole team at Fulvio Bernardini.
Unfortunately, things are not going well, just as in the league, also in the Europa League, a competition in which Roma have collected five points in four matches: a victory against Dynamo Kiev, a defeat against Elfsborg, two draws with Athletic Bilbao and Union St. Gilloise, and an elimination zone with just one point. And then Tottenham, fresh from the 4-0 victory against Manchester City, are even more scary.
For this reason it is even more difficult to think of a turnover to try to rest some of the starters ahead of the match against Atalanta. Ranieri needs to test the most important team, but above all to score points to fix the European ranking and the morale of his men. There will be some rested men, of course, but not so many as to imagine a massive turnover.
And it’s also difficult to hypothesize the game system. Four or three defense? Given the prolonged absence of Hermoso and the only Hummels available (plus Cristante), Ranieri could still opt for the same (or almost) same module used against Napoli. So the 4-4-1-1, or the 4-3-3 depending on the players on the wings and the choices of the coach in these two days of work. The one who wrote it Corriere dello Sport.