Cagliari - AS Roma

Full round of Mid-week fixtures coming up.

A tough match away in Cagliari awaits.
If there's one team I cannot stand it is Cagliari,they always cause us problems nearly like they go out of their way to do so,and don't get me started on Daniele Conti who always put in MOTM performance against us.Bruno needs to have a word in his ear me thinks.
I'd happily take a draw now.



Not sure if DDR will be fit to play,we have a huge game at home on Saturday against Inter so maybe it's not worth risking him for this match.

I'd like to see this lineup...


---------------------------------Stekelenburg------------------------------------
------------------------Juan------------------Heinze------------------------------
-----------------------------------Gago-------------------------------------------
Rosi------------------------------------------------------------------------Taddei
------------------------Perrotta-------------Pjanic---------------------------------
------------------------------------Totti------------------------------------------
-------------------Borini-----------------------------Lamela------------------------

You just know Daniele Conti is going to score... again

PS - second time I say that this season.

Here is the list of players called up by Luis Enrique for the trip tomorrow:
Goalkeepers: Lobont, Curci, Stekelenburg ;
Defenders: Jose Angel, Juan , Heinze, Taddei, Kjaer, Rosi ;
Midfielders: Pjanic, Gago , Perrotta, Greek, Simplicio ;
Forwards: Lamela, Totti, Bojan , Borini


I heard that Borini isn't fully fit so we'll most likely see Bojan start

Pjanic also picked up a knock and is in doubt.

ErPupone wrote:Pjanic also picked up a knock and is in doubt.

So a Cagliari win it is then.

Patrick Bateman wrote:

ErPupone wrote:Pjanic also picked up a knock and is in doubt.

So a Cagliari win it is then.

sadly, i agree..

Who knows the game might not even go ahead.

The weather conditions in Italy are very bad atm the Parma-Juve game was called off because the stadium wasn't safe enough for the fans.

the game is not at the olimpico though.. right?

arigle wrote:the game is not at the olimpico though.. right?

No, its in Cagliari, Via Del Marre if im not mistaken.

please play Jose Angel. Taddei is crap. Had tons of chances to play the ball in but hes left foot failed him.

flameas wrote:please play Jose Angel. Taddei is crap. Had tons of chances to play the ball in but hes left foot failed him.

Do you want us to get hammered ?

FFS already a goal down..

Goallllllllll Juan 1-1

Goallllllllll 2-1 Borini !!!

2-2

Kjaer and Angel that first half

Kjaer can *bleep* off back to the Bundesliga

Our deffense looks like one giant hole right now. They are peircing us over and over again with through passes down the middle. Very weak performance from us IMO.

We really are *bleep* pathetic in defence how can those *bleep* Cagliari who haven't scored more that 5 goals in their last 7 games put 4 past us in one night.Fkn joke !!!

Same *bleep* shit every time we play against them away.Why do we even bother showing up,in future we should just give them 3 points without playing the game,save us the hassle.


Kjaer and Angel,the door is that way lads...just error after error with those 2.

That's what we get for not buying any right defenders...


And get's even better Saturday we play Inter.

I thought Rosi was terrible as well. Even offensively he was garbage. How did he not even hit the net on that pass from Totti!?!?! You practice for hours everyday how can you not even test the keeper on a close range shot like that? We are really missing De Rossi. He provides coverage everywhere we need it at the perfect moment. We could use Osvaldo back as well, we have very little finishing of late. Cant find the back of the net the way we should be.

DiRocco wrote:I thought Rosi was terrible as well. Even offensively he was garbage. How did he not even hit the net on that pass from Totti!?!?! You practice for hours everyday how can you not even test the keeper on a close range shot like that? We are really missing De Rossi. He provides coverage everywhere we need it at the perfect moment. We could use Osvaldo back as well, we have very little finishing of late. Cant find the back of the net the way we should be.

The whole back line was rubbish except for maybe Juan who scored I won't be to critical of him.But Kjaer and Angel were the worst of the lot.

Angel can be awful frustrating to watch why does he keep wanting to cut in and hit the ball on his right he's a left footed player does he not realise that.

Patrick Bateman wrote:

DiRocco wrote:I thought Rosi was terrible as well. Even offensively he was garbage. How did he not even hit the net on that pass from Totti!?!?! You practice for hours everyday how can you not even test the keeper on a close range shot like that? We are really missing De Rossi. He provides coverage everywhere we need it at the perfect moment. We could use Osvaldo back as well, we have very little finishing of late. Cant find the back of the net the way we should be.

The whole back line was rubbish except for maybe Juan who scored I won't be to critical of him.But Kjaer and Angel were the worst of the lot.

Angel can be awful frustrating to watch why does he keep wanting to cut in and hit the ball on his right he's a left footed player does he not realise that.

I feel your pain. Sadly enough even when he decided to swing it in with his left foot the ball would fly long and not find anyone. Not that we have much arial threat in offense without Osvaldo. I say we make a move for Criscito in the summer.

DiRocco wrote:

Patrick Bateman wrote:

DiRocco wrote:I thought Rosi was terrible as well. Even offensively he was garbage. How did he not even hit the net on that pass from Totti!?!?! You practice for hours everyday how can you not even test the keeper on a close range shot like that? We are really missing De Rossi. He provides coverage everywhere we need it at the perfect moment. We could use Osvaldo back as well, we have very little finishing of late. Cant find the back of the net the way we should be.

The whole back line was rubbish except for maybe Juan who scored I won't be to critical of him.But Kjaer and Angel were the worst of the lot.

Angel can be awful frustrating to watch why does he keep wanting to cut in and hit the ball on his right he's a left footed player does he not realise that.

I feel your pain. Sadly enough even when he decided to swing it in with his left foot the ball would fly long and not find anyone. Not that we have much arial threat in offense without Osvaldo. I say we make a move for Criscito in the summer.

But he does it a lot of the time though.In fact nearly every match he plays he has habit of doing it instead of making a simple pass.


We need more than a new LB we need a whole new backline.

I was really nervous after the game.

We're doing a lot of mistakes in my opinion. Gago first, loses the ball we concede a goal, it would be OK if it was his first time, but same situation was against Bologna that could cost us a goal. He should not keep the ball that match, dont risk to give it away FFS.

Kjaer, *bleep*, awful positioning, garbage, I dont like this guy.

Rossi, Taddei v2 when he was garbage..

Totti's presence is priceless!!!!

Wasn't able to catch the game, only saw highlights. Looks like Cagliari made us pay whenever we gave away possession cheaply, while we missed a number of opportunities to draw level in the second half. We seemed to be threatening mostly off set pieces, with Pjanic coming close and Gago missing what would've been a fantastic volley.

As for the backline, I can't criticize them since I didn't see the match, but conceding 4 goals means that changes must be made. I wouldn't be opposed to putting De Rossi at center back once he comes back, something has to give eventually.