Verona-Roma 0-0: poles by Tameze, Dimarco and Spinazzola

It is difficult to be sure in the first league game. However, the 0-0 Bentegodi with which Verona and Roma start the season sends very clear signals. Verona, objectively weaker than last year’s revelation team (along with Atalanta), part of the same mentality that gave him Juric, a serious candidate for the Golden Bench. The various Rrrhamani, Amrabat, Kumbulla (sold to Rome) and Pessina They are no longer there, Lazovic is injured. A little bit has come from the market so far: the team has lost quality, but they play a solid game, which gives them a well-deserved point. It gives little and is very well located in the countryside. Fonseca’s Roma is more than ever an open play: without a center forward (Dzeko is on the bench waiting to sign for Juve), with Cristante behind in defense waiting for Kumbulla and, who knows, Smalling. The training seems a bit improvised in anticipation of October 5, the market closing day. Karsdorp, already sold to Genoa, is the headline on the right, just to give an example. Impossible to go too far with judgments in such a context.

POTENTIAL

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Fonseca enjoys a devastating Spinazzola on the left: only the post denies him the goal in the 86th minute. But before that, it was Verona that went to the forest, with Tameze and Dimarco. Pedro and Mkhitaryan, strangely inaccurate on two scoring occasions in the first half, are players of international level, the trio with Milik would be more than tempting. And it is likely that with 21 shots on goal, as in Bentegodi, the goals will be more than zero. Pellegrini and Veretout are certainties in the middle of the field. But waiting for the intrigues of the market, we play without a central point. You say little. And, in fact, concreteness is lacking on the rare occasions that Verona grants. Which puts the first brick of a season that promises to be more complex than the previous one.