3 excellent defensive headers there by Smalling, including against Giroud - saw in another thread that he was weak in the airRoma
Pen incident - 1:0 Giroud
Italian Serie A - 2021-2022
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Chiesa might look disturbingly like Nosferatu but my god he’s a tidy footballer
Undoubtedly one of his main strengths.3 excellent defensive headers there by Smalling, including against Giroud - saw in another thread that he was weak in the air
Theo made it 2-0
I can't watch it right now but Judging from the scoreline, it'll be interesting to see if Millan could avoid a collapse akin to last year and push all the way in till the end.
3-0 and Venezia down to 10.
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Roma with three english players in the starting XI against Juventus. It may be the first time in the history of Serie A given how reluctant are english players to move abroad
Would be interesting to see whether this is a trend that will continue or not, our very own axel joined that club and seeing how hard it's become to be mainstay at a pl club many more might be tempted to move abroad.
The collapse last season came due to an unprecedented injury crisis - a crisis that we just mostly got out of after the last 1.5months. Once Tomori and Romagnoli are back from covid in a few days, we're basically full strength (aside from Kjaer season ending injury).
Even across other leagues, not sure I’ve seen 3 English players in one starting lineup.
I've looked at Transfermarkt about english players in Serie A and it's definitely a growing trend:
- Between 2001 and 2014 only two players have at least 1 appearance in Serie A: Bothroyd and David Beckham; since then
- 2014/15, 2: Micah Richards, Ashley Cole
- 2015/16, 1: Nathaniel Chalobah
- 2016/17, 1: Joe Hart
- 2017/18, 1: Rolando Aarons
- 2018/19, 2: Ben Wilmot, Ronaldo Vieira
- 2019/20, 3: Chris Smalling, Ronaldo Vieira, Ashley Young
- 2021/21, 4: Smalling, Ronaldo, Young, Tomori
- 2021/22, 7: Smalling, Ronaldo, Tomori, AMN, Abraham, Tuanzebe, Binks
Probably the Premier League has become so much competitive and PL clubs import so many good foreign players that the english ones are forced to move abroad if they want to grow and/or play..
- Between 2001 and 2014 only two players have at least 1 appearance in Serie A: Bothroyd and David Beckham; since then
- 2014/15, 2: Micah Richards, Ashley Cole
- 2015/16, 1: Nathaniel Chalobah
- 2016/17, 1: Joe Hart
- 2017/18, 1: Rolando Aarons
- 2018/19, 2: Ben Wilmot, Ronaldo Vieira
- 2019/20, 3: Chris Smalling, Ronaldo Vieira, Ashley Young
- 2021/21, 4: Smalling, Ronaldo, Young, Tomori
- 2021/22, 7: Smalling, Ronaldo, Tomori, AMN, Abraham, Tuanzebe, Binks
Probably the Premier League has become so much competitive and PL clubs import so many good foreign players that the english ones are forced to move abroad if they want to grow and/or play..
Also Aaron Hickey from Scotland in the Bologna squad and features regularly.
Atalanta won 6-2 away to Udinese. Score goals for fun.
Two other trends being that this current generation of England players particularly has a lot of good young players, as seen by the Euros squad, and that if an English player does well, an English team will be quite likely to pay a higher price for them, thus incentivising teams to take a risk on young English players. A team like Liverpool is already at the max of how many non English players it can sign.
Tammy scored, 1-0 Roma
great match so far
What a goal Dybala
Roma looked better side tbf
I guess we find out , a proper title race is in the interest of the entire league to make it more enjoyable.
1-0
Abraham
1-1
Dybala
Abraham
1-1
Dybala
That's one hell of a shot by dybala.
2-1 mkhitaryan. Wild deflection
3-1 Pellegrini
Juve
What a free! 3-1! Don’t think chesney had a chance but he didn’t look like he got any spring in his dive
Mkhitaryan 2-1
Pellegrini 3-1
Pellegrini 3-1
José fecking juventus will never not be 
3-2!!
Game on
Game on
This is fun!
Locatelli
3-2
3-2
Onside i think.
Edit: yep
Edit: yep
Goal counts
Roma and defending
Roma and defending
So strange, it was always one of Jose's stronger points even with his meltdown over here.Goal counts
Roma and defending
3-3 Kulusevski
HAhahaha
feck you Mouriho you tosser
feck you Mouriho you tosser
Wow!
What formation are Roma playing? Is Smalling playing as the outer CB in a back 3? That makes no sense to me, he needs to be in the middle. That 2nd goal is his bread and butter, he heads that away 9/10 times
4-3 Juve
Smalling mistake
Smalling mistake
Seriously Roma what the hell.
This game is mad