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Roma’s victory over Como on Monday may have halted a two-match losing streak in Serie A, but the Giallorossi’s 1-0 win over Cesc Fabregas’s side was hardly an attacking masterclass. Thanks to Wesley’s somewhat controversial 60th-minute goal, with a Como player injured on the pitch, Roma eked out another narrow victory, lifting Gasperini’s group into […]
about 2 months ago | 0 reads
While it was exciting to see Roma share the spotlight with Como yesterday, the unfortunate part of those Monday Night Calcio matches is that, here in the Eastern Time Zone, they’re smack-dab in the middle of the workday. As a result, I wasn’t able to watch the match in full, which, in turn, means that […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
As we mentioned in the buildup to today’s Round 15 matchup against upstart Como, the little club by the famous lake shouldn’t be taken lightly. Thanks to the combined powers of Cesc Fabregas on the touchline and Nico Paz on the pitch, the Biancoblù are holding their own in Serie A this season. Heading into […]
about 2 months ago | 6 reads
Thanks to their brief stay at the top of the table, Roma was the talk of the town. Sure, the offense wasn’t exactly humming, but thanks to a suffocating defense and Mile Svilar’s heroics in goal, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was perhaps the biggest surprise in Serie A. Just don’t tell that to Cesc Fabregas […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
“[Evan] Ndicka is still here. He’ll be there tomorrow. The rest we’ll see about in the next few matches. Regarding [Neil] El Aynaoui, Morocco have appealed to FIFA, so we’re waiting for them. This is a league matchday, and the teams that played on Saturday and Sunday were able to use players involved in the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
We’re still a couple of weeks away from the official start of the January transfer window, but if you believe the Italian press, Roma is already feeling a time crunch when it comes to their top target, Joshua Zirkzee. Despite the seemingly perfect fit between player and club, this potential transfer is already being delayed. […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
Since I didn’t watch yesterday’s victory over Celtic in its entirety, I wasn’t able to draft a proper Sinners & Saints from the club’s 3-0 win in Glasgow. In lieu of S&S, we’re turning our post-match coverage over to Zach Lowy, who was kind enough to pen a guest post for us—you can follow Zach […]
2 months ago | 5 reads
After losing consecutive league matches for the first time under Gian Piero Gasperini—dull, uninspiring losses at that—Roma rebounded with a convincing victory over Celtic in the Europa League this evening in Glasgow. With the rain pouring down at Celtic Park, Roma wasted little time pressing the issue against their Scottish opponents, dispatching the Glaswegians in […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
After dropping consecutive matches to Lille and Viktoria Plzen, Roma’s Europa League adventure is on slightly better footing after reeling off victories over Rangers and Midtjylland. Thanks to those rebound performances, Roma enters Matchday Six in 15th place, but only three points behind top-of-the-table Lyon. With three matches remaining, Roma still has a chance to […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
When we consider that the Giallorossi sit fourth in the table through 14 match days, Roma’s domestic campaign has been an overall success thus far. There’s few Romanisti that wouldn’t have signed up for that prior to the start of Gian Piero Gasperini’s first season in charge at Trigoria. However, back-to-back 1-0 defeats at the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
The International Law of Transfer Rumors states that when Player X is linked to Club Y, all media outlets have at least 10 days to publish a story suggesting that A) Player X no longer wants or desires to leave his club or B) Club Y is now interested in Player Z. We’ve seen this […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
For a brief moment in mid-November, it seemed like Gian Piero Gasperini had finally cracked the code that had been holding back Roma’s attack. Admittedly, the Giallorossi weren’t taking the league by storm like Gasp’s Atalanta teams, but after netting nine goals in four matches, it looked like the club had turned a corner. But […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
You know what they say about assumptions, right? Well, after Roma laid an egg in last weekend’s top-of-the-table clash against Napoli, today’s fixture against 15th-place Cagliari should have been a gimme for the Giallorossi. Even with some lingering injuries in attack, we felt safe labeling this as a “get-right” match for Roma, and, well, in […]
2 months ago | 5 reads
While November was a success for Roma, the Giallorossi ended the month on a flat note, falling to Napoli 1-0 in a top-of-the-table clash. Granted, the Scudetto isn’t won in the fall, but with Gian Piero Gasperini’s group punching above their weight class, a victory over Napoli would have lent substantial credibility to Roma’s status […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
“Angelino didn’t have a muscle or a joint problem. The tests were ok and he started training again yesterday. In the last few weeks he’s been training separately but training quite well. When the doctors give the all-clear for him to play, we’ll use him. “It hasn’t been an easy week because lots of players […]
2 months ago | 6 reads
We’re about halfway through Gian Piero Gasperini’s first season in Rome, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about his press conferences, it’s that we usually get to discover who has two functioning lungs and who’s been quarantined somewhere deep under Trigoria. That was especially true today, as ahead of Roma’s trip to Cagliari, Gasperini’s […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
With Evan Ferguson’s and Artem Dovbyk’s struggles during the first three months well-documented, it’s no surprise that rumors have circulated that Roma will look to add attacking reinforcements when the transfer window opens in January. And for most of the fall, the player most closely linked with Roma has been Dutch striker Joshua Zirkee of […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
After spending the first two months of the season grinding out one-nil wins, Roma’s once-dormant attack showed signs of life in November. Before last weekend’s frustrating loss to Napoli, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was on a hot streak, scoring nine goals in their previous four matches. While they still weren’t getting much production from their […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
With 619 career Serie A appearances across his two decades playing for Roma, Francesco Totti played a lot of football in his day. In fact, only Gianluigi Buffon and Paolo Maldini have made more appearances than our beloved Bimbo de Oro. Given the sheer length of Totti’s career as a professional footballer, not to mention […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
After overcoming a somewhat clunky transition to life under Gian Piero Gasperini, the Giallorossi are humming as we head into December. Winners of six of their past seven matches in all competitions, Roma entered Round 13 with a two-point lead over Napoli, today’s visitors to the Stadio Olimpico. While we’re barely a third of the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Roma’s match tomorrow against their Southern compatriots Napoli is a serious testing ground for the Giallorossi. While Gian Piero Gasperini’s men have managed to stay top of the table through nearly a third of the season, their success has come in a decidedly un-Roma way: by winning the matches they need to against the smaller […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
Roma enters its first match as sole league leaders on Sunday and it’ll be a big test against defending champions Napoli. The Giallorossi are off to a flying start to the season with nine wins in 12, but Gasperini’s men still lack a marquee victory after falling to both Milanese clubs by matching 1-0 scorelines. […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
In my younger and more reckless days, I would often crank the burner up too high when preparing a meal, naively assuming that more heat meant better meat—let’s attribute that to a misunderstanding of Hank Hill’s sage advice “taste the meat, not the heat.” Though my culinary awakening didn’t happen overnight, after one too many […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
While many Roma fans are already focused on Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash against Napoli, Gian Piero Gasperini and the Giallorossi have an incredible opportunity in today’s Europa League fixture against FC Midtjylland. Sporting an unblemished record, the Danish club has a slim two-point cushion atop the Europa League table and seems poised to sail into the […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
Roma return to the Olimpico in a strange dual reality that only this club seems capable of inhabiting: one where the Giallorossi are cruising in Serie A at a level we haven’t seen since 2013, yet are somehow stumbling through a Europa League campaign that should, on paper, be far more straightforward. The club’s domestic […]
3 months ago | 2 reads