Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 704. (Read 823768 times)

Yes, it cannot be denied that this is a good start for de Rossi in coaching Roma. However, fortunately, Roma's two opponents yesterday were not top clubs, in fact one of them was a relegation zone club. So, it is natural for Roma to win both matches. However, this is a quite influential tactical test for de Rossi before finally facing a tough match against Inter later. This is where de Rossi's capacity will be truly tested. This definitely won't be easy because we know that Roma is still not strong enough compared to Inter Milan for this season. So, de Rossi will really face this challenge quite difficult. Worse, they might lose against Inter, and this is quite reasonable if you look at the consistency and performance between the two. However, if de Rossi is able to create tactics that are very suitable for Roma and can carry them out solidly, it is possible that they will draw. I am also curious about Roma's progress with de Rossi.

In the last match, Roma's performance in the first half was not very impressive, especially in the attack line. They really excelled in ball possession and they really controlled the game. However, that alone was not enough because they really couldn't put any significant pressure on Salernitana's defense. That's why in the first half, the match was quite boring, in fact several times it was Salernitana who attacked quickly again. Luckily in the second half, things changed quite a bit and in the end Roma were able to win by 2 goals.

Of course, in football the result is everything. However, Roma didn't play a very good game against Salernitana. In the first half they had almost no scoring chances and Salernitana attacked very effectively. Candreva, Salernitana's experienced player, performed very well and created important opportunities for Salernitana in the first half. If Roma hadn't taken the lead with a penalty goal in the second half we could have been talking about different things today. De Rossi has a very difficult job at Roma.

2 matches of As Roma with De Rossi got positive results. They won albeit with not much goal difference but it was a good start. Against Inter it takes place week 2 of February, before that they will play Cagliari. Of course Roma are favourites to win against Cagliari, but for Inter a draw is a pretty good result. There are rumours that Roma want to sign Kloop, but that's not certain. Since I've read Kloop will take a break for at least 1 year.

Yes, that's right, now there is no longer any need to debate about them beating weak teams like Verona and Salernitana. What needs to be seen now is that As Roma won again after experiencing several disappointments, but with new coach De Rossi, As Roma managed to get 6 points in their last two matches. This is a positive start to raise the enthusiasm of players. The team is in place but everything still needs to be reorganized, and De Rossi still has a lot of work to do.

De Rossi's proof will most likely be tested in the next three matches, apart from facing Cagliari, they will also face Inter Milan the following week and a few days later they will visit Feyenoord in the first leg of the European Cup. This is truly De Rossi's biggest test with As Roma. Can he get through these three matches?

Sometimes a change of coach can have a positive effect on the mood of the team, but often such results are temporary. It’s still too early to evaluate De Rossi’s success, and it’s still too early to evaluate that Roma was able to get closer to the top 4, Fiorentina, Lazio and Bologna have one game in hand, and each of these teams has a chance to get ahead of Roma. But if Roma can continue to play this well then they will have enough time to climb into the top 4 as Atalanta is very close.

De Rossi is still in his early stages as a coach at AS Roma. I am pretty sure everyone knows that, but to be sincere, something is really changing in their performance, but I will say it is still too early to start getting discouraged in his performance yet, because so far when he is the coach, AS Roma haven’t lost any games yet, but some improvement has been done, even though their last march with Sportiva Salernitana was somehow a treat for AS Roma because they had more shots on target than AS Roma, but to the lucky, or should I say, the performance of AS Roma and their new coach De Rossi, they were able to win the game.

Although I have placed my trust in De Rossi to change the present performance of AS Roma, which I believe will take time, he will definitely do so and have a good reputation for the team.


From all indications, De Rossi's performance in As Roma as the coach is amazing because all the games that he coached were all won, but some are still saying that all those teams are not strong enough. Yes, I admit that, but seeing this performance, we should have a positive view of De Rossi that shows that he will definitely improve As Roma’s performance.

This looks somehow to me because I'm trying to understand if it's Lazio and fiorentina that has performed below average that will be able to replace Roma even if I know Roma hasn't done any better tho but Roma is more considerable then you will with fiorentina, Lazio is performing below their known performance last season but the are still at a fair position on the table.

If Rossi is consistent enough even if he's new but he's started on a very good not and if he's consistent not loosing any game further, even with a draw he can be sure to help the team stay at the fourth position and secure a champions league spot for next season. Lazio is the next with such chances but it still depends on their performance. Bologna hasn't be really bad and can possibly displace Roma but they will have to find a weakness for Roma upon which they will take advantage and see to displacing them to secure the fourth position and aswell a spot at the UCL.

I saw a summary after your reports, and you are absolutely right
Salernitana played well, very well against a Roma who were at times stunned.
In my modest opinion as a fan, Salernitana deserved a draw. Roma are lucky, I have to review my estimates on De Rossi.

If Salernitana played every match like this, perhaps they could even save themselves.

Roma have won their last two matches 2-1. Roma have won two matches after losing several matches in a row. But in both the matches, the opponents were very weak. Roma team wins against Verona and Salernitana.

I agree with you that whether the new coach is still successful will be seen after watching Roma's performance against Inter Milan. Roma's new coach is not experienced enough. I don't even see the possibility of Roma winning against Inter Milan. Because Roma could not dominate the match against Salernitana. But against Inter Milan, Roma will probably play defensive and try to get 1 point. And the match is highly likely to be a draw. But I look forward to seeing if Roma's defense can perform well against Inter Milan's strong attack.

At least, the winning results on paper for AS Roma in De Rossi's first three matches were successfully realized even though indeed, De Rossi just played the first two matches against Verona and Salernitana and both were in the bottom zone of the Serie A standings. So, the reason I say De Rossi's first three matches is because yes, in fact in the next match AS Roma will still play against another relegation zone team and that team is Cagliari. Therefore, because in the first two matches De Rossi can keep AS Roma winning then of course, playing against Cagliari who are in the relegation zone still promises a victory for AS Roma because after all, AS Roma will also play at home.

So far De Rossi cannot be said to be good at coaching As Roma, it seems that their game does not have character, if you do an analysis since De Rossi coached As Roma. Indeed, De Rossi in the last two matches managed to get positive results which made them move up to 5th place in the standings with a collection of 35 points.

However, this is not enough to prove that De Rossi is worthy of being the permanent coach because he won the last two matches against the weakest teams in Serie A. He needs to prove that he is worthy of being the coach of As Roma if he is able to beat the strong teams in Serie A. If the experience is not there yet, but in the remainder of this season maybe he will gain valuable experience coaching a big team, so this will motivate him to do his best for AS Roma and next season his position as coach will be permanent.

If it was another team less competitive than AS Roma in the Serie A, I will say two match is enough to give a new coach the confidence to lead that team, but for a team like AS Roma, he has ti face big teams like Inter Milan before one can ascertain that he can lead the team to success if left as the head coach of the team throughout the season. I know it is very difficult starting to coach a new team even when you haven’t had a lot of experience prior to coaching the team, but his ability to win one or two tough matches will make him be at advantage of staying long in the team and finding a comfort zone for himself to continue his coaching career. The next three games of AS Roma will say a lot about De Rossi’s coaching career in the team, especially the one against Inter Milan.

De Rossi has only brought two wins for Roma and I don't think we should say if he is able to handle Roma now, there are still a few matches to see the true quality of De Rossi and if he is able to overcome big teams later, if yes then it is appropriate for us to Hats off to him, currently Roma have only beaten two small teams and that cannot be a benchmark for De Rossi success.
Apart from that, two weeks after Morinho left, of course Roma game scheme has not changed much and of course the Roma players are still using the same tactics and style of play from Mourinho has been implementing it all this time. De Rossi only handles the team that was formed by Mourinho and so far we have never praised Mourinho when he wins against small teams but it is actually different when now it seems like De Rossi is doing more when he is only able to win 2-1 against Salernitana, isn't that not fair?
I think Mourinho dismissal from Roma was not because he was unable to handle Roma, but because of his bad relationship with management who did not want to provide a budget to buy decent players for the Roma squad.

Team	Point
Inter	54
Juve	53
Milan	46
Atalanta	36
Fiorentina	34
Lazio	34
Bologna	33
Roma	32
Napoli	32
Torino	31
Genoa	28
Monza	28
Frosinone	23
Lecce	21
Sassuolo	19
Verona	18
Udinese	18
Cagliari	18
Empoli	17
Salernitana	12

juventus, my beloved team do a draft and inter going up again.. but Inter played one game less

De Rossi took over Mourinho role in the right period, where Roma found easy opponents in several matches, these positive results were very good for De Rossi at the start of his managerial career. We know that Roma management took quite a big risk when making the decision to appoint De Rossi as head coach, because in terms of experience of course the two are still very different. I actually quite applaud De Rossi, he can immediately click with the Roma squad, his experience with the club has given him a lot of ease to adapt quickly.

Cagliari, Inter Milan and Feyenoord will test the quality of De Rossi in the future, to what extent he can stabilize the club and prepare his players in two different leagues. On the other hand, I hope that De Rossi can be like Xabi Alonso in the Bundesliga, where he is able to bring Leverkusen to improve gradually until he can lead the top of the standings as he is now. Even though he wasn't as successful as Xabi when he was still actively playing, I feel De Rossi has a good understanding of managing a team to achieve success. For the next few moments, De Rossi still won't be able to completely escape from Mourinho shadow, but he just needs to prove to the fans that he is worthy of taking on this responsibility.

We have to admit that Salernitana's players performed very well in today's home match. Salernitana's players tried to dominate the match. So they attacked a lot. But the Roma team were tactical today. Roma players try to attack very much. But every attack that Rome made was very sharp. Corinne Dybala scored from the penalty spot in the 51st minute and Pellegrini scored another goal in the 15th minute to give Roma a 2-0 lead. After leading by 2 goals, Roma tightened their defense. Even then, Roma conceded a goal. Although Roma didn't attack much, their overall performance today was very composed.

After end of the first half I was sure things are not favourable for the Roma because they were having good ball possession, but mostly we have attacking tactics from the Salernitana which were doing good aggressive game but as we entered into second half we have penalty which allows Roma to have lead and things gone into their favour after having lead they started better and doubled their lead just after 15 minutes which confirm their win into this match because after 70 minutes they were leading by 0–2 which allow them to have control the game but Salernitana also done good job, and they play like they started, but sadly there were no able to score 2 goals and ended with 1–2 in this game which give them more headache for staying at the bottom of the league table.

First, congratulation for your win coz the odds is pretty big tough.


It would be embarrassing result if roma was not doing it. The management's decision to hire a coach who is considered garbage by many fans will likely result in them being held responsible for the team's failures. So far so good but it's still to early to generalize that if rossi has been showing better performance than mourinho. He needs to be tested even more by facing the big clubs. The result from this match is still norma.. I consider roma is strong enough compared to the salernitana and winning the game is a must for the club. You generalize him to be even better than mourinho while rossi was only winning two matches against weak club and he never gave trophy to the roma.
It's so wrong.

Salernitana was able making roma struggle to beat it through implementing the defensive strategy. Roma was almost bottling it, but the club was lucky enough caused by roma was scoring another goal. The performance from the club was so average consider salernitana was a garbage team too.
I was expecting roma to fully dominate the game but it's not happening. Obviously, roma would be winning against salernitana as the worst club in the league. The different result if roma will face intermilan or juventus. Im sure the club can do nothing.

De Rossi has so far still managed to provide victories for AS Roma but still, the victory obtained is also only a narrow victory with a final score of 2-1 in all matches that De Rossi has led so far. Also, there is still one easy match for De Rossi against Cagliari before later AS Roma play against Inter and then play in the Europa League against Feyenoord. At least yes,there is still a good chance for De Rossi to get three points against a team that is in the relegation zone but yes, although so far De Rossi is still quite good but I'm still not sure that good results will happen for the match against Inter later.

These were a little easy games but it really does help him stay there. The fact that they are doing better and getting wins is a big plus for him, and I think Roma may finish the season better than they expected, which would be the ideal situation for them.

I believe that the best thing they could do at this moment would be just letting it be, and letting the team do their best. They can't change anything anymore, this is it, they are going to just have to put up with whatever results they will get. In this regard, a win is definitely ideal, because in any other situation if they got a loss they would just fire the manager, but now they already did that, so even if they lost, they couldn't do much, so it is very important for them to get these wins.