The weight
The feel-good conclusion we can draw, in addition to the reality of an absence that is very difficult for Roma to bear, is that coach and player did not understand each other. The other hypotheses are even worse even if, as of yesterday, there was no evidence of any argument between the two. It is likely that Juric, faced with Dybala’s uncertainty and bad mood, changed his mind on Friday, upon returning from Belgium. He would have liked to let him play but he didn’t perceive the conviction and determination in his interlocutor. And so he preferred to leave it at home: the time for half measures for a coach condemned to precarious employment is over.
Twenty-year-olds
The consequence, also considering the «technical choice» on Pellegriniis that Roma will start the most delicate match in their recent history with a boy from 2003, Mati Souléand one from 2004, Niccolò Pisilliamong other things the only Roma player called up by Spalletti to the national team. If they had told us in August, when Dybala he rejected the very rich Saudi offer to stay in Trigoria, we would have thought it was a joke.
