Goal at the End of the Match Resulted in Gladbach’s Victory over AS Roma

DBasia.news –  The Europa League match at Borussia Park between Borussia Moengchengladbach against AS Roma, Friday (8/11) AM, ended dramatically. Thanks to a goal scored by Marcus Thuram towards the end of the match, Borussia Moengchengladbach defeated AS Roma by a score of 2-1.

Appearing before thousands of loyal supporters, Gladbach immediately kicked off the AS Roma defense at the beginning of the match. However, the lack of creation of attacks has made them have difficulty in dismantling the visitors’ team tight defense.

Despite pressure, AS Roma is also not without opportunities. Driven by Nicolo Zaniolo, they were able to occasionally get out of pressure and threaten the home team’s defense.

Although they have survived to their full potential, AS Roma’s goal finally broke in the 35th minute. Gladbach was able to gain the advantage after Federico Fazio struck the ball into the goal of Pau Lopez. This goal also became the only differentiator between the two teams in the first half.

After halftime, AS Roma immediately took the initiative to attack. Their hard efforts finally paid off in the 64th minute after Fazio was able to complete the feed sent by Aleksandar Kolarov.

After a goal from Fazio, the game went fierce. Both teams were going back and forth on attacks to score both goals in this match. In the 70th minute, Justin Kluivert received the chance to bring AS Roma ahead. However, his shot was floating from the goal of Yann Sommer.

A few seconds before the fight was over, Gladbach was finally able to score his second goal in this match. This time, it was Marcus Thuram’s turn to break Pau Lopez’s goal. The Frenchman was able to maximize the bait sent by Alassane Plea.

The 2-1 score became the final result of the match between Gladbach vs AS Roma. These results has given Gladbach the right to occupy the position of the Europa League group J runner-up with a collection of five points. Winning head to head record from AS Roma who had to settle for third place.

GLADBACH VS AS ROMA PLAYERS:

Gladbach: 1-Yann Sommer; 24-Tony Jantschke (23-Jonas Hoffman 28’), 28-Matthias Ginter, 23-Nico Elvedi; 18-Stefan Lainer, 32-Florian Neuhaus (14-Alassane Plea 73’), 8-Dennis Zakaria, 22-Laszlo Benes, 17-Oscar Wendt (25-Ramy Bensebaini 85’); 10-Marcus Thuram, 13-Lars Stindl.

Coach: Marco Rose.

AS Roma: 13-Pau Lopez; 18-Davide Santon, 6-Chris Smalling, 20-Federico Fazio, 11-Aleksandar Kolarov; 23-Gianluca Mancini (42-Amadou Diawara 59’), 21-Jordan Veretout; 99-Justin Kluivert, 27-Javier Pastore (8-Diego Perotti 80’), 22-Nicolo Zaniolo (17-Cengiz Under 76″), 9-Edin Dzeko.

Coach: Paulo Fonseca.

Yellow Cards: Benes 45’, Bensaibini 88’, Thuram 90’, Neuhaus 90’, Kramer 90’ – Mancini 41’, Santon 87’, Diawara 90’.