Drame is a butcher, he has gone through Pjanic countless times today and nothing has been even said to him.
De Rossi is getting ready to come on, if ever there was a time to redeem himself it is today,
Bergonzi - FOAD.
30 mins to go pal, how we looking?
Lamela for Pjanic, not sure about this change, it’s going to be pretty tough to dribble against a side who have packed men behind the ball, not the mention the craters on this pitch.
Not great, we’re struggling.
De Rossi for Bradley.
Bomber for Totti.
Worrying scenes here as Marcos goes down and we have all our subs used.
Accum up in smoke so, prob a good result all the same for Roma considering conditions & referee’s performance.
Really heavy fog has descended on Verona and it’s impossible to watch this stream. We’ve been very poor today, really flat tempo - the conditions certainly haven’t helped. We’ve just come very close to scoring as I speak.
Fuck. 1-0 Chievo just seconds after we had a big penalty shout turned down, what a horrible, horrible, horrible side Chievo are.
Hard luck pal.
That goal looked offside as well.
De Rossi is a sorry sight these days, Zeman made the wrong decisions with his substitutions - Pjanic certainly shouldn’t have been taken off as he was one of our better players - Tachtsidis and Osvaldo did nothing today and both should have been subbed. A very abject display and I’m not happy although we still did not deserve to lose.
Think we had Marquinhos may have gone off injured for the last 15 minutes but I could barely see anything with the fog. We had a clear penalty not given by Bergonzi just preceding the goal as Balzaretti was hauled down, then they went up the pitch and scored immediately when it looked offside. We really can’t catch any breaks this season, from playing in a thick fog today to the matches against Parma and Lazio which resembled a bath tub. Then there was the phantom penalty awarded against Castan when we played Udinese and today where in the space of 30 seconds we have a clear penalty turned down and Chievo go up the pitch and score a goal that was offside.
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“Of course we could’ve done more today, as the performance was decent in the first half and less so after the break.
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A mentally strong squad can adapt to different conditions with an astute manager rotating the personnel accordingly. Much like Neil Lennon picking a physically strong team to deal with Gayfield Park last Wednesday night. Zeman is out of his depth.
You are either with us or against us, Bandage. You can take that as an ultimatum.
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