Heavy defeat for Ivan JuricRoma coach, who on the second European evening made up for a poor impression in Sweden: “He fields a team without art or part and returns to Rome with a disappointing European defeat, with the first knockout of his management. He tries to play the game always and in any case, but all things considered, the Giallorossi had 70 minutes of sterile ball possession. Better with the starters, but by then it was too late”, is the comment from us at TMW.
“Lots of ball possession, but often sterile and an end in itself. Roma seem to lack ideas. And this is worrying”, writes the Gazzetta dello Sport. The Corriere dello Sport: “He resorts to the bench, obligatorily, changing six players. But Roma let themselves be put on, suffering from the synthetic pitch and the speed of the opponent. When the big names come in, the team grows. But it’s always too little. The first defeat is very heavy because it complicates the European path, not to mention the Nordic fool which is now part of Romanists’ historical sorrows”.
Tuttosport: “He makes a lot of turnover and his Roma can’t find their way. Territorial domination, but not of the match. The team does better with substitutions, a sign that it has spared too many starters”, while the Messenger: “It changes a lot, six new faces compared to Sunday but the responses he receives are modest. What you see in the first half is a tactical hybrid; when he brings in Dybala, Pellegrini and Dovbyk the match changes but it’s now too late.” The difference compared to the match against Venezia lies in Cristante’s shot last Sunday, which enters the goal after a deflection, while Pellegrini’s conclusion hits the woodwork. For the rest, two matches too similar, with sterile ball possession, which leads to nothing except boredom. The worst, however, comes after the match, when he declares that Roma did very well for long stretches. It doesn’t work.”
Juric’s report cards
TMW – 4
Gazzetta dello Sport – 5
Corriere dello Sport – 4.5
TuttoSport – 5
The Messenger – 5
VoceGialloRossa.it – 4