Roma-Parma 5-0: Dybala leads the Giallorossi with a brace

ROMA — If it is perhaps too much to talk about a new beginning now, it was certainly excessive to already talk about the end (season). In the Roma ante Ranieri every defeat-argument-exoneration-embarrassment was followed by discussion: failure, dispute, Serie B, these were the topics. But as long as there is a championship there is hope. And the thirteen minutes with which Roma immediately knocked out the Parmaeliminated with a 5-0 without shivers and worries, confirm that the treatment is working: everything seemed wrong, the right person was needed.

How Ranieri changed Roma

Ranieri accompanied a confused and unhappy team out of the dark moment. With even painful, difficult, courageous choices. The first, the most sensational, the now definitive exclusion of Pellegrinirelegated to a luxury reserve. The relaunch of Hummelsnever considered by Juricwhich nullified even the best talents of Pecchia, Bonny e Man: he is always in the right position, he no longer even needs to be fast, a limit that was insurmountable for the previous coach. He was not interested in the contractual problems of Dybalahe didn't let himself be influenced by the automatic renewal clause, it gave him space, trust, freedom, he can be an all-round director and second striker: when it's dark someone has to turn on the light. And the Argentine also thanked him with Parma by procuring (naive and disorganized intervention by Balogh) and scoring the penalty to make it 1-0 after just 8 minutes and finding the goal to make it 3-0 in the second half. He has found quality on the right wing with the return of Saele makers who gives intensity, assists, the splendid volley to make it 2-0 which after 13 minutes put the match on the downhill and the uncontainable descent in the 70th minute which gave Roma their second penalty – taken and scored by Paredes – and the 4-0.

Roma's new midfield

He invented the couple Kone-Paredes, well matched in terms of physical strength, intensity, geometry. He never questioned it Dovbykwho spent a start to the season abandoned in his solitude and who found the goal again with the 5-0 that closed the match against Parma. And above all Ranieri restored courage, serenity and calm to a hysterical and disheartened team that didn't know why things were going so badly. And the less he understood it, the worse the ranking got. Not that he shines now, the 19 points like the Torino contested and booed, they do not allow us to imagine a future as a protagonist. And now they arrive Milan at San Siro and the derby with the Lazio to understand if the passage is empty with the As it was just an unexpected event, if this victory against Parma is a real leap in quality in the team's individual and general performances. In the meantime it is a small but big step forward, the road was uphill, that could be the uphill climb.

The Roma Parma scoreboard

Roma 5 (8’ pt rig. Dybala, 13’ pt Saelemaekers, 6’ st Dybala, 29’ st rig. Paredes, 37’ st Dovbyk)

Parma 0

Roma (3-4-2-1): Svilar 6.5 – Mancini 6, Hummels 7, Ndicka 6.5 – Saelemaekers 8, Koné 7, Paredes 7, Angelino 7 – Dybala 7.5, El Shaarawy 6 – Dovbyk 6.5. All. Ranieri 7.

Parma (4-2-3-1): Suzuki 5 – Coulibaly 4, Delprato 5 (9' st Valenti 5), Balogh 4, Valeri 5 (13' st Benedyczak 5.5) – Hernani 6, Sohm 6 – Man 5, Mohamed 5.5 (1' st Camara 6), Almqvist 6 (9' st Cancellieri 5.5) – Bonny 5 (25' st Mihaila 5). Annex Pecchia 4.5.

Referee: Di Bello 6.

Note: Bonny, Almqvist and Angelino booked. Spectators 62,968.