The rival, one time most hated enemy and today respected stepmother, it is Juve, 9 league titles in a row and with Pirlo to teach driving school on the bench, writes Ugo Trani on The messenger.
The last opponent of the post lockdown championship tonight becomes the first for Roma at the Olimpico in the new tournament. Only 58 days have passed since the match on 1 August in Turin and, with the landing of Friedkin who averted the risk of failure for the club and at the same time slowed down the reconstruction of the squad, that match won has already been canceled.
Not from Fonseca: none of the colleagues who preceded him in Trigoria has ever been able to score points at the Stadium. But, even for the elimination in the Europa League against Sevilla, the very end of the old season risks affecting the manager’s future. From success to process, in less than 2 months. The Portuguese, just look him in the face when he is framed by the camera, he knows he is in the balance, at 0 in the standings, regardless of the public position taken by CEO Fienga on Friday confirmed his confidence. Tense and disconsolate. Fonseca slip in front of any question so as not to slip. If, on the other hand, Friedkin’s management advised him, gives the impression of being like a police station. Black out on the market and especially on Smalling who, before leaving for Verona and also at the Bentegodi after the 0-0 on Saturday, always ended up at the center of all his speeches.
Nobody asks him, but he announces the formation: “If nothing happens until the start of the match, the starting team will be: Mirante, Santon, Mancini, Ibanez, Kumbulla, Spinazzola, Pellegrini, Veretout, Pedro, Mkhitaryan, Dzeko“. How to say: forced choices, indirect message to the new property.
“Dzeko is motivated. And it is not true that he refused to enter against Verona“. Never told by anyone.
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