AS Roma hosts Genoa in round 1 of Italian Serie A. The match will be played on Sunday, August 25th at Stadio Olimpico (Rome)
Roma held a very strange previous season: summer transfers let Di Francesco down and forced him to build a team according to the 4-2-3-1 scheme and not his favorite 4-3-3 schemes (N'Zonzi cannot control the entire pivot zone alone). Roma fans (along with Totti) made the impression of crazy people because criticizing the non-renewal of the contract with De Rossi is very stupid: the player is old, prone to injuries, but because he is a legend in someone’s eyes, the club should keep him up to 40 years old? Pallotta did the right thing and got rid of Totti - Francesco essentially did not play any role in the management of the club, his position was decorative. Pallotta made the right decision by inviting Paolo Fonseca to the post of head coach: he creates an excellent and thoughtful system in the team, and the Romans will play very nice and beautiful football. By the way, everyone remembers his Shakhtar, which was supposed to beat the Jalorossi in the 1/8 finals of the main European tournament in that very season 2017-2018 (Roma in the semi-finals of the Champions League).
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Everyone remembers Empoli’s drama in the last season - the club fired Aurelio Andreazzoli on his birthday and returned him in a difficult situation then. Aurelio almost saved Empoli: in the last round, he had to either score points in the match with Inter or wait for Genoa to lose in the match with Fiorentina. In the end, Empoli lost 1:2, and Genoa and Fiorentina played a shameful draw 0-0. In summer, Fiorentina earned a lot of money by playing at the International Champions Cup, and Aureli Andreazzoli went to Genoa... Fate is insidious ... The arrival of Andreazolli is great news for Genoa. The Genoese must be in the middle of the standings in terms of resources, but Piatek became their “pearl" in the last season (unjustifiably, by the way). The Griffins did not have anything more vivid in the season 2018-2019.
I think that both teams will greatly improve both the quality of their game and the results in this season (compared to last season), as well as may well become the main discoveries of the upcoming Serie A – everything is thanks to the arrival of excellent coaches. In my prediction, I would like to proceed from the playing style of the teams (based on the past teams of these coaches and pre-season matches): both Genoa and Roma love to attack and have a lot of possession, so they create many attempts. Many attempts are created - goals are scored, so my prediction is both to score: Yes.
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score - yes
