Re: Champions League/Europa League Campaign 2014-2015 Thread

by Lupi Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:09 am

i have the weird feeling we either battered or win with numbers. their usual formation is 4-2-3-1 but they used 4-4-1-1 against city. you can tell i'm pretty nervous about it

by flameas Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:41 am

they also lost two last matches in Russian Premier league. We just have to survive first 20 minutes, we are most vulnerable then. (Like against Atalanta and Napoli)

by McLewis Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:20 am

Ehh can't go by league form in games like this. They'll be up for it and they'll want revenge for what we did to them back in September.

Ahmed Musa's a pretty good player so I worry for our backline as his pace has caused quite a bit of problems to some decent teams when playing for both CSKA and Nigeria.

by McLewis Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:32 pm

Well that was an interesting ending to the game today.

Players like Iturbe and Strootman are getting a lot of blame because of their roles in the build up to that CSKA goal, but I blame our overall mentality in that 2nd half.

Garcia continues to perplex me. Obviously we don't need him to be Zeman, but come on....I'm not understanding why we shut up shop so early. Continue to attack them and we would've gotten our 2nd goal (albeit after missing a raft of chances).

by flameas Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:13 pm

I know what you mean . Against Atalanta we also saw this - we stopped playing after going ahead. We dont have a super solid defense to do that. Astori is no Benatia and our fullbacks are not CL leve. We cant stop playing when we are ahead.

I hope against City we will give our maximum, not just hope that the result will do.

by Lupi Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:27 am

The level of performance this year decreased as a team, partly duo to injuries and using the same players pretty much for all games. This happens to the teams who get into CL after some years par Atletico Madrid and i know good teams can win games even on bad days but the number of that in Roma is increasing and that is a bit alarming.
That being said i am actually happy with draw as i thought we are going to lose but we hold on to the game and even had chances to finish the game by 3 points. the game against Man city is important now and if we are want to survive the group we should be able to beat city because even if we go through somehow by magic wound the next opponent will be tougher or at least same as CITY.

by DeviAngel Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:43 pm

Now kick some EPL asses Very Happy

by Lupi Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:16 am

i think we are going to miss out in the most Romantic way possible, Romeo drinks the poison, and then Juliet wakes up if you will.

by gb Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:46 am

Idk Lupi, City are missing a lot with Aguero being out. He's accounted for nearly all of city's goals in the champions league (all but one I believe). I think we will come out inspired and take it to city. 3-1 scoreline in our favor

by McLewis Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:08 am

We could be playing City's D team and I'd still worry tbh. The CL is a different monster for many reasons.

That said and I've said it from the beginning.....this is the most vulnerable City have been a long time. This game is ripe for the taking.

It's the Coppa final all over again in terms of importance and even the shirt color of the opponents Laughing

by Lupi Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:18 am

i actually think city is much stronger with milner and navas and one of silva/nasri in midfield even fernandinho-lampard give them more balance than toure-fernandinho. even in the first leg milner helped them a lot and kinda prevented us from winning the game.

by DeviAngel Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:39 am

Without Aguero they are really really weaker

by salmano9 Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:02 pm

by gb Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:06 pm

Agreed. We needed to capitalize on our chances early on so that we could sit back composed and organized to finish the game but City pressed our MF all game long and disrupted our rhythm a la Bayern in the 7-1 thrashing

by elm_baraja_shaman Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:35 pm

salmano9 wrote:
DeviAngel wrote:Without Aguero they are really really weaker

A well deserved loss for the capital city of Italy tbh. A mouth full of rubbish is reflected on the field.

this is very unneeded, Roma hate us yes, but really I don't think we should mock them.....

by Lupi Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:37 am

i saw it coming but a bit worse than what i thought, first half was ok even though we had gervinho on top alone and Totti mostly out of the game from a good cover by mangala( how i missed yaya toure), keita was being murdered by nasri, fair enough 0-0 could see us through, with arrival of silva and jovetic the pressure on keita the balance in center went to city's favor and we conceded both through middle.
garcia's subs only made the matter worst, as iturbe was helping city more than anything and destro, gerv, iturbe only works in fifa 15.

Yes we hate juventus as they run by a criminal that should be in the lock, RIP Edoardo agnelli

by salmano9 Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:56 am

elm_baraja_shaman wrote:
salmano9 wrote:
DeviAngel wrote:Without Aguero they are really really weaker

A well deserved loss for the capital city of Italy tbh. A mouth full of rubbish is reflected on the field.

this is very unneeded, Roma hate us yes, but really I don't think we should mock them.....

Yeah lol, better luck next time then Razz

by RealGunner Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:41 am

salmano9 wrote:
DeviAngel wrote:Without Aguero they are really really weaker

A well deserved loss for the capital city of Italy tbh. A mouth full of rubbish is reflected on the field.

-25% for trolling

Please read the rules before going to other sections and posting shit like that

by McLewis Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:25 pm

We have drawn Feyenoord in the EL R16.

They are 4th in the Eredivisie and have scored 41 goals and allowed 18 which isn't far off from the 48 we've scored and the 15 we've allowed.

A lot can change between now and February, but I like our chances in this one if we take this seriously...especially away from the Olimpico.

by Lupi Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:29 am

I think you are underestimating them and if garcia do the same, it wont be pretty

by McLewis Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:32 pm

Not at all.

They are a pretty decent side from what the numbers tell me. I don't know much about their footballing style, but they have some good players (Strootman was one of their youth players) and sit in a respectable part of the Dutch table.

I think they'll be a worthy challenge for us, but I do think we have more quality.

by Curtinho Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:25 pm

Feyenoord are the sleeping giants of Dutch football right now. They have played the best of any of the big three this year (PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord) and if not for probably bad luck or undeserved results they'd be fighting with PSV for the title (Ajax do not deserve that, they have been atrocious this year really). They really dominated Ajax in their most recent fixture, though Ajax were missing the heart of their team in Klaassen.

At first when I saw the draw I thought Feyenoord were unlucky because they have a strong team and should be able to do well in Europa, but at the same time if Roma underestimate them they will be the unlucky ones. Feyenoord are not a walkover.

by Lupi Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:58 pm

another shit show

we drop back to protect the lead which is understandable, Just watching Mbiwa play is equal to watch a dark comic show. Where i don't know if i have to laugh or get upset. Defense is still leaking and attack with Totti is alright given the chances and doumbia scratch

by McLewis Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:23 am

No impetus, no energy and no grinta.

This was our chance to take a healthy result with us to the Netherlands, but now Feyenoord have their away goal.

This is what happens when we treat a European tie like a Serie A tie against a provincial side.

by Lupi Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:47 pm

another game with keita-ddr-Ninja again, should i bother to watch it?

by McLewis Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:02 pm

A.S ROMA Starting XI: Skorupski; Torosidis, Manolas, Yanga-Mbiwa, Cholevas; Keita, De Rossi, Pjanic; Ljajic, Totti, Gervinho

FEYENOORD ROTTERDAM Starting XI: Vermeer; Karsdorp, Boulahrouz, Kongolo, Nelom; Clasie, Woudenberg, El Ahmadi; Toornstra, Kazim-Richards, Vilhena

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Pjanic and Keita just don't work for me. Both play it far too safe with their passing. Big reason why we're going to struggle to create clear cut chances.

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