No, it won't be easy for us! Both milan clubs will not like us winning three in a row. Already I have noticed the refs showing them favoritism and booking our players on the least excuse and not giving us that blatant penalty kick, when we played They have already started using underhand/referee assistance to deny us the chance of winning the scudetto this season. The refs have started this season like they were in 2006/7 and 2007/8: - very anti-Juve!
they should reduce the number of teams in serie a to 16-18. the league would be more competetiv and players would be more fit to play cl and internationals
they should reduce the number of teams in serie a to 16-18. the league would be more competetiv and players would be more fit to play cl and internationals
I think the standard of the bigger clubs has gone up this season.
Think the standard of the bottom half of the league may have dropped this season compared to last.
May prove not to be the case over the course of the season, but that's my initial impression.
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Roma continuing to see the value of having a properly functioning midfield for the first time in ages. It's been in midfield that Roma have been losing Derbies, but today they were able to contain Lazio's midfield intially and gradually take control as the game went on.
That then meant that Roma were able to get the ball to their talented players enough to give them a real chance to influence the game. I don't think Roma had been able to do that in recent games against Lazio, which has meant Lazio's defence has had to do very little by way of serious defending in recent Derbies. I thought Cana and Ciani both had very good games today, and Roma still created a reasonable number of chances.
Be interesting to know if it was a decision by Garcia or if it just sort of happened, but I liked how Roma really focused on attacking down their right at the start of the second half. Meant that were actually getting their front three close enough together to give them a chance to link up, where the spaces between them had been far too big in the first half to really given them much chance to do anything.