Roma-Turin 3-1: Mkhitaryan, Veretout from penalty, Pellegrini and Belotti

It is the wolves that tear a sick Bull to pieces. And the banquet allows Roma to join Juve in third place in the standings, taking it 4 points behind leaders Milan. All this with merit, but also easily denying the Liedholm paradox, which certified that ten people play better than eleven. The grenade does not pass, because the referee Abisso runs into a bad night, which starts with a hasty second yellow to Singo in the 14th minute of the first half, unbalancing a game that Giampaolo’s team had started well, giving wind to that revolution . At the beginning of the week. Instead, it ends 3-1, hallowed by goals from Mkhitaryan, Veretout from a penalty, Pellegrini and Belotti. And if the penalty – Bremer’s foul on Dzeko – is clear, Turin has to complain about the first goal, given that it is due to an invisible foul by Mancini on Belotti himself on the edge of the Giallorossi area. Moral: the referee, involuntarily, rages in a group full of problems, starting with the defense, which, with 30 passive goals, is the worst in the league. It goes without saying, therefore, that Giampaolo’s position remains delicate, given that the last team to escape after so many goals in 12 games was only Pro Patria in 1950-51.

GRANADA REVOLUTION

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As expected, if Fonseca forgives Pedro for Sunday’s game against Atalanta and confirms Pellegrini in the trocar, confirming his already classic 3-4-2-1, coach Granada changes half the team in front of the starters of the last game against Udinese, aligning a team with an average age of 24 years and 87 days, the youngest since 2006-07. Five novelties to go: from goalkeeper Milinkovic-Savic (brother of the Lazio player) to Bremer, from Gojak to Lukic to Buongiorno, 21, who only has a seasonal presence in the Italian Cup and another in 2017-18. The start seems to agree with him, given that the team maneuvers well and also becomes dangerous in the 6 minute with Belotti, stopped at the last minute by Smalling. The Giallorossi, however, find space on the left with Spinazzola, who at 11 ‘starts a good useful initiative to find Bruno Peres alone in front of the goalkeeper, but the Brazilian escapes on the left. Torino is shaken and, thanks to a header from Belotti found by a center from Vojvoda, López commits. In short, an apparently open game, until Singo was sent off, as we said, in minute 14. And if the first warning about Mkhitaryan was clear, the second about Spinazzola seems hasty. The race at this point changes. Ansaldi enters for Gojak, but the unfortunate Argentine surrenders almost immediately and meanwhile the grenades dangerously recede to the center of gravity, coming to life only in the 22nd minute with a free kick from Belotti that López saves. But in the 27th minute Roma took the lead, scored by Mkhitaryan with a goal post after Milinkovic-Savic parried a shot from Mancini. The action, however, is marred by a foul by Mancini as he recovers the ball over Belotti on the edge of the area. In short, Abyss in confusion and at that point the grenades skid. Spinazzola almost scored in the 36th minute with a great shot and in the 43rd minute a risky back pass from Belotti unleashed Dzeko, who was landed by Bremer: it was a penalty from Veretout.

ROTATION

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In the second half, the pace slows and a whirlwind of substitutions by both coaches would suggest that both Roma and Torino think about their next matches respectively against Atalanta and Bologna, for very important reasons. Instead, the game lives on, albeit firmly in the hands of the Giallorossi, who score the third goal with Mkhitaryan, blocked by outgoing Milinkovic. The grenades, however, did not give up and at 19 ‘Edera, entered by Ansaldi, hit a great crossbar with a nice shot from outside. It would seem like a spring, but on 23 ‘Pellegrini, concluding a Spanish action between Pedro and Mayoral, signs the trio with a great left foot. It looks like Toro’s surrender, but Giampaolo passes behind four, raises the center of gravity and scores on 28 ‘. A shot from Belotti is not blocked by López and in the next scrum, in which Ibáñez gets into, the center forward manages to score. The grenades try to believe it incredibly and so at 33 ‘Bonazzoli hits the net with a great shot from the front; The same in minute 39 is for Bremer, who does not move far from the post with his head. But it is not a night of miracles for the grenades. Indeed, in the 48th minute it was Bremer who saved Mayoral just ahead of Milinkovic. So it ends, therefore, with a Rome increasingly thrown towards the high ranking and with a Turin (to defeat number 20 in this 2020 calendar year) that this time can rightly complain of an arbitration too melancholic to be true. But there is no alibi: it is necessary to change course, and Abisso cannot be the screen of the crisis.