In the end, the best thing about Roma-Inter was when, halfway through the second half, the whole stadium joined in applause, with banners, for the victims of the Foggia accident in which three fans died. It was a moment, just a minute, which reminded us how football can also bring out the beauty in people. For the rest, going back to talking about the rolling ball, Roma-Inter was anything but a spectacular match. Inzaghi’s team brought it home, despite not playing an unforgettable match, they won with a goal, after an hour, of Lautaro Martinez. The decisive goal by the Nerazzurri captain comes because, essentially, Roma falls asleep: first Zalewski collapses, with the team in attack, on the ball and is robbed of time and action by Frattesi, then it is Celik who goes softly on Lautaro who had received, not very well, the ball from Frattesi himself. Svilar can’t do anything: in the first half he was pardoned by the crossbar on Mkhitaryan, in the second half he saved the result with a super save on Dumfries, but not even he was able to intervene on the Argentine’s shot.
Rome, who scores?
And Rome? Dovbyk did not arrive, Dybala did not arrive, the only dangerous shots in the first half bore the signature of Pellegrini: Sommer first saved himself from the sensational own goal with a post, then did well to deny both him and Soulé at the last second. NoJuric’s Roma wasn’t brilliant, Inzaghi’s Inter wasn’t brilliant eitheralso limited by the two initial changes given that Calhanoglu and Acerbi, for physical reasons, had to give way to Frattesi and de Vrij. Juric did his best to limit the Nerazzurri with a 3-4-2-1 which in the attacking phase became a 4-2-3-1 but against such a strong team, even if not in the evening, the perfect game was needed. And Roma didn’t do it. Because when everything goes badly, individual mistakes also make things worse. The ranking, on the other hand, speaks clearly: Inter second with 17 points, Roma tenth, seven points behind with just two games won. And the fourteenth attack of the championship. It wasn’t Mourinho’s fault, it wasn’t De Rossi’s fault, it wasn’t Juric’s fault. The problem is that it seems difficult to find solutions today. And the fans felt it firsthand: entering the Curva Sud in the 15th minute, they sang throughout the match, limiting themselves to a couple of shouts against the owners. The whistles only came during substitutions and at the end of the match. But not even this was enough to wake up Roma. Who knows what Kevin Strootman must have thought in the stands: how much this team would need.
