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Roma Roundtable Season Review: Goalkeepers & Defense
Gian Piero is renowned for his high-flying, attack-at-all-costs approach to football. Sure, he doesn’t line up eight to 10 men at the midfield stripe for the opening kickoff like a certain Zdeněk Zeman, but Gasperini made his name on overwhelming opponents in the final third. While we did see plenty of that brand of football […]
Sinners & Saints: Verona 0, Roma 2
It took nearly eight years and another 38 rounds of play, but thanks to Sunday’s thrilling victory over Hellas Verona, Roma will finally return to the Champions League. In grand Roma fashion, it wasn’t easy and tested the limits of our nerves, but thanks to stellar performances from Paulo Dybala and Mile Svilar, the Giallorossi […]
El Shaarawy’s Farewell Caps Roma’s Return to Europe’s Elite
I don’t think it’s any stretch of the imagination to say that this was the most nerve-wracking match we’ve experienced in several years, save perhaps for Roma’s ill-fated Europa League final against Sevilla in 2023. After an up and down (and all around) season, Gian Piero Gasperini and the Giallorossi scratched and clawed their way […]
Verona vs. Roma: Lineups & Game Thread
After 37 weeks of play, it all comes down to this: A win over Hellas Verona and Roma returns to the Champions League for the first time in eight years. While it’s been a typically chaotic season for the Giallorossi, full of stops and starts, the past few months have given us newfound confidence that […]
With Champions League on the Line, Roma Face Verona In Final Serie A Match
Roma find themselves in what feels like a unique situation for all the time I’ve written for Chiesa di Totti: they truly have their fate in their own hands. Thanks to the events of the thirty-seventh match day, the Giallorossi are tied on points for third place with A.C. Milan, and a win tomorrow against […]
Probable Formation: Hellas Verona vs AS Roma
“Kone has recovered, he trained with us all week, he has a few minor ailments, he’s not quite 100%, but he’s definitely available. I don’t know if he’ll start or start during the match, but he’s available. The rest of the team is feeling the heat and the temperatures, so we need to be good […]
Across the Romaverse #232: Derby Reflections, Dybala’s Future, Verona Preview & More
While we’re a few days out from Roma’s thrilling 2-0 win over Lazio in the Derby della Capitale, we couldn’t help but bask in the glory of the Giallorossi’s victory, one that lifted Roma into fourth place and, more importantly, in control of their own destiny. Despite the swell of emotion and positivity that followed […]
Vlahović to Roma? Giallorossi Monitoring Juventus Striker
Please accept our apologies, but due to a brief internet outage at CdT HQ, we’ve been a bit behind on the news and rumors this week. Aside from the oh-so-predictable pendulum swings in the Paulo Dybala renewal story, the latest “twist” would see La Joya venture off to the English Premier League, the rumor mill […]
Sinners & Saints: Roma 2, Lazio 0
While the job isn’t quite done yet, by virtue of defeating Lazio 2-0 in yesterday’s Derby della Capitale, Roma is a hair’s breadth away from ending their eight-year Champions League drought. Thanks to yesterday’s Gianluca Mancini-inspired victory and Fiorentina’s shocking 2-0 win on the road over Juventus, Roma will enter the final matchday in fourth […]
Roma Rise Into Fourth Behind Mancini’s Derby Masterclass
It was a day of firsts and potential lasts at the Stadio Olimpico this afternoon. With a week of scheduling controversies finally settled, Roma and Lazio went toe-to-toe under the midday sun in one of the more consequential Derbies della Capitale we’ve seen in several years. While Lazio had nothing to play for and few […]
Roma vs. Lazio: Lineups & Game Thread
After a scheduling controversy that can only be classified as quintessentially Serie A, Roma and Lazio will kick off the penultimate round of the 2025-2026 season at noon local time. With five other fixtures beginning at the same time, all of which have enormous European implications, there will be no time for table watching. Fortunately, […]
Probable Formation: Roma vs Lazio
“It’s a consideration because, yes, I believe that some players, but in all teams who were born and raised in a team they belong to, have to play in derbies, they experience them in a particularly different way, than, for example, a player who arrives in his first year, perhaps from outside, and who has […]
Champions League Hopes and Derby Drama Collide at the Olimpico
Well, it’s derby day again, and with that comes an inexplicable several days of back and forth on timing from the city government and a god-awful 6:00 AM Eastern start time for many Americans. Thank Totti I’m not on the West Coast right now. Still, sleep deprivation feels like a small price to pay when […]
A Farewell to the Pharaoh: Bidding Goodbye to SES
Stephan El Shaarawy first joined AS Roma in January 2016. That feels like ages ago; it was a completely different world then. Roma participated in the Champions League, Rudi Garcia had just been fired, and Spalletti was back as coach. James Pallotta was the President. Back then, Carpi and Palermo were in Serie A, and […]
Across the Romaverse, #231: Derby Preview, Reader Qs, Grading Gasperini & More!
After a two-month hiatus, the pod is back. And we’re just in time to cover the critical final two matches of Roma’s 2025-26 season. After looking dead in the water about a month ago, the Giallorossi have turned things around and still have hope of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. It all begins early […]
Hope Remains for Paulo Dybala’s Roma Future
In her 1989 hit, Gloria Estefan warned us that love cuts both ways, that we “Can’t be together, can’t be apart. We’re heading straight into a broken heart.” While the former Miami Sound Machine frontwoman was addressing the swings and roundabouts of a rocky relationship, we can apply those same lessons to the impending end […]
Sinners & Saints: Parma 2, Roma 3
Yesterday’s victory over Parma, which featured both a stoppage-time equalizer and a match-winner, was one of the wildest finishes we’ve seen in quite some time. Despite the combined heroics of Devyne Rensch and Donyell Malen, Sunday’s win left a few lingering questions, chief among them: Will this victory be a springboard to fourth place or […]
Rensch and Malen Save Roma in One of the Season’s Wildest Finishes
Thanks to consecutive victories over Bologna and Fiorentina (plus a little help from the table), Gian Piero Gasperini and Roma have thrust themselves back into the Champions League conversation. Entering today’s Round 36 fixture against Parma one point behind 4th-place Juventus and two points ahead of 6th-place Como, Roma had only one objective: victory. With […]
Parma vs. Roma: Lineups & Game Thread
Roma hasn’t gotten any help on the table this weekend, but that doesn’t make today’s fixture against Parma any less critical. A win today and Roma’s Champions League hopes will remain alive for another week, while anything short of victory will likely be the final nail in the coffin. Still, with the Giallorossi riding high […]
Roma’s Top-Four Push Continues With Crucial Trip to Parma
There is something comfortingly familiar (and disappointingly familiar) about where Roma find themselves as this season draws to a close. Champions League qualification is still dangling just close enough to inspire belief, yet just far enough away to remind supporters how many missed opportunities came before it. After last week’s emphatic 4-0 dismantling of Fiorentina, […]
Probable Formation: Parma vs Roma
“Dybala has been training regularly for a couple of weeks now, and so he’s improving. It’s not so much a question of condition, but rather a question of regaining the strength in that leg, the shooting power. Angeliño has truly had a season that was unexpected by everyone, a very difficult one. Perhaps for the […]
Roma Begin Gasperini Rebuild With Move for Kerim Alajbegović
Now that Roma has thrown its full weight behind Gian Piero Gasperini, showing former Senior Advisor Claudio Ranieri the door and preparing to replace Sporting Director Frederic Massara, the club is fully committed to Gasperini’s vision. While transfer season hasn’t descended upon us yet—not that it ever really takes a break—Roma’s first genuine target of […]
Report: Frederic Massara Confirmed Out, GPG Reigns Triumphant
There was never going to be room for all of them. Not after all the tension that played out behind the scenes and in the press over the past few months, not after the increasingly public disagreements between Claudio Ranieri and Gian Piero Gasperini, and not after Gian Piero Gasperini practically spent the last month […]
Sinners & Saints: Roma 4, Fiorentina 0
How often have we seen Roma waste chances to climb up the table after their rivals lost points earlier in the round? We don’t have an exact figure, but for your sanity, I don’t suggest running the numbers. With visions of Fiorentina dancing on Roma’s Champions League graves filling our heads, many Giallorossi supporters spent […]
Roma Overwhelm Fiorentina to Stay in Champions League Hunt
We’ve definitely been too liberal with our use of the phrase “must-win” in these spaces this season, but with such thin margins between victory and defeat (and, consequently, between the Champions League and Europa League), Roma seldom had the luxury of brushing off a fixture. However, past hyperbole aside, there was no denying the importance […]
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