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Player Focus: Romagnoli Hoping to Emulate Milan Idols After Big Money Move

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Player Focus: Romagnoli Hoping to Emulate Milan Idols After Big Money Move Alessio Romagnoli made his debut against Milan as a 17-year-old for Roma. After scoring his first goal some months later in the same game that Francesco Totti found the net for the 225th time in Serie A, matching the former Milan [and Roma] striker Gunnar Nordahl as the league’s second top sco...

Team Focus: Will Dzeko & Salah Signings Shift the Balance of Power From Turin to Rome?

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Team Focus: Will Dzeko & Salah Signings Shift the Balance of Power From Turin to Rome? After Rudi Garcia’s first season at Roma, the team was associated with Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’, the Oscar winning film set in the Eternal City. A year later the focus of cultural discussion in Italy’s capital is altogether different. An article in the New ...

Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second

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Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second Paulo Roberto Falcao was crowned the Eighth King of Rome in 1983. Leading Roma to only their second ever Scudetto was behind his ascension to a throne that had been vacant since 509 BC. There has never been a succession. But the title has passed on. It is one of the nicknames Francesco Totti goes by...

Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish

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Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish A year ago, Gabriele Romagnoli, a La Repubblica columnist, compared watching Gervinho to the final scene in Thelma & Louise. They evoked the same emotion in him. Let’s not get caught… Let’s keep going, one says to the other. Coming to the end of the road, surrounded by police,...

Team Focus: Home Providing No Comfort for Stuttering Roma

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Team Focus: Home Providing No Comfort for Stuttering Roma Full of himself, Sky Italia’s garrulous orator in chief Fabio Caressa made a gag at Roma’s expense before Monday night’s game with Sampdoria at the Olimpico. Doing a shift on the network’s sports news channel, he claimed to have exclusive pictures of the team’s final tr...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Could this be the last chance for Roma to get back into the title race? Or is it already too late? The clash at the Stadio Olimpico dominates the footballing weekend, but there is a lot to come before that Monday night meeting. The rest of the fixture list brings some great bets with it.LIKELY BETSR...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips A tricky weekend lies ahead for the big clubs. Although none of them really face a difficult task, the main problem will be finding themselves in the midst of European fixtures. So only those that set their mind to the mission at hand will not drop valuable points. LIKELY BETSSwansea vs Manchester U...

WhoScored Tipster: Who Will Win the Most Glamorous of Europa Leagues?

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WhoScored Tipster: Who Will Win the Most Glamorous of Europa Leagues? The Europa League has been a hard sell for some time now. It's got to a point, in Europe's top leagues at least, that fans are often keen to avoid it, preferring instead to push for the more illustrious Champions League next time around.Those in the privileged positions among Europe's elite have coi...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips This is one of those weekends where the Europe's biggest sides have to make the most of winnable fixtures just before a return to European action that will be a drain on their energy.LIKELY BETSCesena vs Juventus: JUVE HT/JUVE FT @ 1.61There is simply no questioning Juventus' superiority here; they ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips A cracking weekend of football lies ahead. La Liga and Ligue 1 have games that could shape the title race, Serie A with a classic encounter that once decided the Champions League and the Premier League with two of the most heated derbies in England’s top tier.LIKELY BETSAtletico Madrid vs Real...