Cautiously Optimistic Since 2007
We’ll take a break from the allegedly ongoing transfer negotiations for Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee and Atletico Madrid midfielder Giacomo Raspadori to focus on a new name in the Roma rumor mill: Napoli striker Lorenzo Lucca. Lucca, a towering 6’7” striker from the Torino area, joined Napoli this past summer in a €30 million […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
If yesterday’s match had been against any other club, we could say the result was disappointing. However, given the historic imbalance between Roma and Juventus, a 2-1 loss to the Old Lady on the road was hardly surprising—some might even say it was expected. While we still believe Gian Piero Gasperini has Roma heading in […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
While Roma remains on a mostly upward trajectory under the guidance of Gian Piero Gasperini, today’s test against Juventus at the Allianz Stadium in Torino reinforced the adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Roma have been fortunate to avoid recent setbacks against the Old Lady of Italian Football. Still, […]
3 months ago | 1 read
I got jumbled up in doing some last-minute holiday errands, so you’ll have to excuse the lack of a pre-match preamble. Needless to say, this is a massive match that Roma must win to maintain their spot in the top four, not to mention passing a critical benchmark to be considered legitimate contenders near the […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
“He’s [Dovbyk] not fully recovered. Even though he’s been training for a few days, he is still having some difficulty kicking. Other than that, we’re all here apart from the two who have left. [Mario] Hermoso has a little issue that we’re hoping to resolve.” “We’re assessing Dybala today. We’ll try him out, test him […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
If ever there was a fixture that feels like a derby even if it is not mentioned in the same breath as the Derby della Capitale, Derby del Sole, or the Derby della Madonnina, Roma’s matches against Juventus fit the bill. Tomorrow’s trip to the Allianz Stadium sees the Giallorossi take on Italy’s once and […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
It’s not that often that Roma gets to look down on Juventus in the standings. Still, thanks to the club’s offensively tenuous/defensively genius start to life under Gian Piero Gasperini, the Giallorossi venture to the Allianz Stadium in fourth place, four points above the Old Lady of Italian Football. Unfortunately, both fanbases are looking up […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
Roma’s victory over Como on Monday may have halted a two-match losing streak in Serie A, but the Giallorossi’s 1-0 win over Cesc Fabregas’s side was hardly an attacking masterclass. Thanks to Wesley’s somewhat controversial 60th-minute goal, with a Como player injured on the pitch, Roma eked out another narrow victory, lifting Gasperini’s group into […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
While it was exciting to see Roma share the spotlight with Como yesterday, the unfortunate part of those Monday Night Calcio matches is that, here in the Eastern Time Zone, they’re smack-dab in the middle of the workday. As a result, I wasn’t able to watch the match in full, which, in turn, means that […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
As we mentioned in the buildup to today’s Round 15 matchup against upstart Como, the little club by the famous lake shouldn’t be taken lightly. Thanks to the combined powers of Cesc Fabregas on the touchline and Nico Paz on the pitch, the Biancoblù are holding their own in Serie A this season. Heading into […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
Thanks to their brief stay at the top of the table, Roma was the talk of the town. Sure, the offense wasn’t exactly humming, but thanks to a suffocating defense and Mile Svilar’s heroics in goal, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was perhaps the biggest surprise in Serie A. Just don’t tell that to Cesc Fabregas […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
“[Evan] Ndicka is still here. He’ll be there tomorrow. The rest we’ll see about in the next few matches. Regarding [Neil] El Aynaoui, Morocco have appealed to FIFA, so we’re waiting for them. This is a league matchday, and the teams that played on Saturday and Sunday were able to use players involved in the […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
We’re still a couple of weeks away from the official start of the January transfer window, but if you believe the Italian press, Roma is already feeling a time crunch when it comes to their top target, Joshua Zirkzee. Despite the seemingly perfect fit between player and club, this potential transfer is already being delayed. […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
Since I didn’t watch yesterday’s victory over Celtic in its entirety, I wasn’t able to draft a proper Sinners & Saints from the club’s 3-0 win in Glasgow. In lieu of S&S, we’re turning our post-match coverage over to Zach Lowy, who was kind enough to pen a guest post for us—you can follow Zach […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
After losing consecutive league matches for the first time under Gian Piero Gasperini—dull, uninspiring losses at that—Roma rebounded with a convincing victory over Celtic in the Europa League this evening in Glasgow. With the rain pouring down at Celtic Park, Roma wasted little time pressing the issue against their Scottish opponents, dispatching the Glaswegians in […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
After dropping consecutive matches to Lille and Viktoria Plzen, Roma’s Europa League adventure is on slightly better footing after reeling off victories over Rangers and Midtjylland. Thanks to those rebound performances, Roma enters Matchday Six in 15th place, but only three points behind top-of-the-table Lyon. With three matches remaining, Roma still has a chance to […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
When we consider that the Giallorossi sit fourth in the table through 14 match days, Roma’s domestic campaign has been an overall success thus far. There’s few Romanisti that wouldn’t have signed up for that prior to the start of Gian Piero Gasperini’s first season in charge at Trigoria. However, back-to-back 1-0 defeats at the […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
The International Law of Transfer Rumors states that when Player X is linked to Club Y, all media outlets have at least 10 days to publish a story suggesting that A) Player X no longer wants or desires to leave his club or B) Club Y is now interested in Player Z. We’ve seen this […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
For a brief moment in mid-November, it seemed like Gian Piero Gasperini had finally cracked the code that had been holding back Roma’s attack. Admittedly, the Giallorossi weren’t taking the league by storm like Gasp’s Atalanta teams, but after netting nine goals in four matches, it looked like the club had turned a corner. But […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
You know what they say about assumptions, right? Well, after Roma laid an egg in last weekend’s top-of-the-table clash against Napoli, today’s fixture against 15th-place Cagliari should have been a gimme for the Giallorossi. Even with some lingering injuries in attack, we felt safe labeling this as a “get-right” match for Roma, and, well, in […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
While November was a success for Roma, the Giallorossi ended the month on a flat note, falling to Napoli 1-0 in a top-of-the-table clash. Granted, the Scudetto isn’t won in the fall, but with Gian Piero Gasperini’s group punching above their weight class, a victory over Napoli would have lent substantial credibility to Roma’s status […]
3 months ago | 7 reads
“Angelino didn’t have a muscle or a joint problem. The tests were ok and he started training again yesterday. In the last few weeks he’s been training separately but training quite well. When the doctors give the all-clear for him to play, we’ll use him. “It hasn’t been an easy week because lots of players […]
3 months ago | 8 reads
We’re about halfway through Gian Piero Gasperini’s first season in Rome, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about his press conferences, it’s that we usually get to discover who has two functioning lungs and who’s been quarantined somewhere deep under Trigoria. That was especially true today, as ahead of Roma’s trip to Cagliari, Gasperini’s […]
3 months ago | 6 reads
With Evan Ferguson’s and Artem Dovbyk’s struggles during the first three months well-documented, it’s no surprise that rumors have circulated that Roma will look to add attacking reinforcements when the transfer window opens in January. And for most of the fall, the player most closely linked with Roma has been Dutch striker Joshua Zirkee of […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
After spending the first two months of the season grinding out one-nil wins, Roma’s once-dormant attack showed signs of life in November. Before last weekend’s frustrating loss to Napoli, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was on a hot streak, scoring nine goals in their previous four matches. While they still weren’t getting much production from their […]
3 months ago | 7 reads