GIALLOROSSI YORKSHIRE BLOG
Roma crashed to a second successive defeat last night, as AC Milan beat them 2-0.
It was an all-round disappointing display as Patrick Cutrone and Davide Calabria scored the decisive goals for the visitors, who go within six points of Roma. Here are the three main things that went wrong. Defence lacked organisation Roma's back four of Bruno Peres, Kostas Manolas, Federico Fazio and Aleksandar Kolarov looked remarkably disjointed for a unit that has played together fairly often this season. Milan's second goal highlighted this, as the defence looked wildly out of shape, allowing Calabria to run through for his first ever Serie A goal. Solutions are still required for the poor showing in this critical area of the pitch, giving Eusebio Di Francesco a lot to work on. Little service for Schick With Edin Dzeko out of form, Patrik Schick was called to the starting lineup, but the service given to him was limited. The Czech striker offered more movement up top than Dzeko has recently, but his teammates failed to create chances for him. In particular, there were several unsuccessful crosses. Schick did okay when he had the ball, but he saw all too little of it over the 90 minutes. The lack of service he received makes it no wonder that his fellow forward Dzeko has looked so frustrated recently. EDF's decisions were poor Pressure will no doubt be growing on head coach Di Francesco if the negative results continue. With the team dropping off in the second half for the second time in a week, it begs the question of what the coach says at half time. Is there a link between his half time team talks and the team's performance levels dropping? There could well be. His substitutions weren't necessarily the right decisions as well, with Stephan El Shaarawy once again not featuring, in a game in which he could definitely have had an impact. There's something suspicious about SES's lack of gametime recently, perhaps indicating a disintegration in his relationship with the coach. Final Thoughts Things aren't about to get any easier for Roma, with a trip to league leaders Napoli next up. If the team play like they did against Milan, they will stand little chance of getting a positive result. EDF will have a lot to think about before that game if he is to avoid a repeat of the disappointment of Sunday.
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samuel bannister
Founder and editor of Giallorossi Yorkshire, who is also a columnist for Roma's official website about the women's team. Categories
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