AS Roma Powerless in Conquering Atalanta

DBasia.news –  The undefeated trend of AS Roma in the 2019-20 season has ended. Atalanta’s 2-0 win over Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.

Rome actually had several opportunities to score in the first round.

Like Edin Dzeko’s kick which successfully pushed over the opponent’s goalkeeper, Pierluigi Gollini.

Coach Paulo Fonseca also made changes to the formation. Starting the match with his flagship formation, 4-2-3-1, then Roma played with three defenders. So when attacking, there were five players in the back line.

The first half ended with a 0-0. Early in the second half, Roma came close to scoring through Nicolo Zaniolo in the 59th minute. Combing the left side of the opponent’s defense, he entered the penalty box and even deceived the opponent’s goalkeeper.

However, Zaniolo’s kick was still be blocked by Toloi. Instead of opening the scoring, Roma conceded in the 71st minute.

Starting from Jordan Veretout’s pass, Atalanta then launched a quick attack into the penalty box which Duvan Zapata converted into a goal.

In the 78th minute, Nikola Kalinic, who came on for Federico Fazio, could almost equalize. Again, Gollini’s action denied deny Kalinic’s shot.

At the end of the match, Atalanta continued to score. Starting from a free kick, Mario Pasalic managed to provide feedback tha Marten De Roon was able to pass into a goal.

Roma will return to play on Sunday, where the team will travel against Lecce.

ROMA: Pau Lopez, Spinazzola, Fazio, Smalling, Kolarov; Veretout, Cristante; Florenzi, Pellegrini, Zaniolo; Dzeko

ATALANTA: Gollini; Kjær, Rafael Toloi, Palomino; Castagne, De Roon, Freuler, Hateboer; Malinovskiy; Gomez, Ilicic.