Roma vs Inter

kickoff in 1 min

biggest snowfall in rome in 26 years

good news for roma as de rossi passed a late fitness test

Stekelenburg
Juan DeRossi Heinze
Taddei Gago Pjanic Angel
Borini Totti Lamela
subs: Lobont Kjaer Rosi Greco Simplicio Bojan Piscitella

Cesar
Maicon Lucio Samuel Nagatomo
Zanetti Palombo Cambisso Obi
Milito Pazzini
subs: Castellazzi Ranocchia Cordoba Chivu Poli Faraoni Castaignos

inter playing with 8 defensive players and 3 centerbacks on the bench waiting to park to bus already

Udinese v Fiorentina and Napoli v Milan also going on right now

Why would Inter not park the bus against Barcelona wannabees? It worked against the real Barcelona.

I hope Roma win, but i think Inter will nick it late on.

1-2
Lamela
Pazzini 2x

Tuning in.

kinda glad the game was moved to sunday. sneijder can't play and de rossi is back

we might have a shot in the pond now , but of course i'm just getting my hopes up. i've never had so little faith in roma in my entire life.... i blame the coach

i predict a high scoring draw. 2-2 , inter's defense wasn't that convincing vs palermo. and roma's defense is roma's defense

Britfag wrote:Why would Inter not park the bus against Barcelona wannabees? It worked against the real Barcelona.

Because the match you are thinking of and probably the last time you saw Inter play was 2 years ago?

GOOOOOOOOOOL

YESSS ROMA!!!!

My favorite all time Italian team is up!

1-0 roma

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:

Britfag wrote:Why would Inter not park the bus against Barcelona wannabees? It worked against the real Barcelona.

Because the match you are thinking of and probably the last time you saw Inter play was 2 years ago?

So? It still worked and it isn't as if they've played a Barcelona style side since.

Britfag wrote:

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:Because the match you are thinking of and probably the last time you saw Inter play was 2 years ago?

So? It still worked and it isn't as if they've played a Barcelona style side since.

different coach. different circumstances. a draw wouldn't them good in this match

Lamela looks good. And to think Wisla Krakow almost signed him on loan before all the interest in him.

Britfag wrote:

Lus Suarez wrote:Because the match you are thinking of and probably the last time you saw Inter play was 2 years ago?

So? It still worked and it isn't as if they've played a Barcelona style side since.

Roma is not Barcelona

Roma try to play like Barcelona. Hence the appointment of the manager, hence the shape, hence the blooding youngsters into he team.

If parking the bus works against real Barcelona, it will work against fake Barcelona.

James, I suggest you stick to talking about football you are well acquainted with.

Britfag wrote:Roma try to play like Barcelona. Hence the appointment of the manager, hence the shape, hence the blooding youngsters into he team.

If parking the bus works against real Barcelona, it will work against fake Barcelona.

we're not even comparable to a fake Arsenal at this point. we're more like Blackpool lol

and there are a lot of nitty gritty things that make us not-Barca

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/12/14/luis-enrique-roma-tactics-barcelona/

Polska, I know what i'm talking about. They are trying to play Barcelona's style, just like Swansea have. Difference between Swansea and Roma is Swansea have played like that for longer and have made notable changes to make it work for them.

Britfag wrote:Roma try to play like Barcelona. Hence the appointment of the manager, hence the shape, hence the blooding youngsters into he team.

If parking the bus works against real Barcelona, it will work against fake Barcelona.

There's no need to park the bus against Roma. They aren't anywhere near being as comfortable on the ball as the real Barcelona, and they do not play anywhere near the same quality or style (yet).

interesting to see how inter reacts to a goal down with 8 defensively minded players on their starting lineup

(and 3 centerbacks on the bench)

really glad to see de rossi back. LE insists on playing a sweeper and no one on our squad does it better than DDR

Has De Rossi signed yet?

Britfag wrote:Roma try to play like Barcelona. Hence the appointment of the manager, hence the shape, hence the blooding youngsters into he team.

If parking the bus works against real Barcelona, it will work against fake Barcelona.

They really don't play like Barca at all, there are some elements in there like Totti in the Messi role (kind of) and the formation, haven't seen them promoting youngsters into the first team though, Viviani has been the only one I think.

nope..... he's free to talk to any club atm

our board are a bunch of wanks. every day that passes by DDR's negotiating position strengthens

Ah well.

Schnix wrote:nope..... he's free to talk to any club atm

our board are a bunch of wanks. every day that passes by DDR's negotiating position strengthens

James Horncastle (Serie A expert) says De Rossi does want to sign a contract extension.. He's just waiting for the right offer.

City will sign him on a free after Pizarro has gone back to Roma .

It all makes sense, they pay the highest wages so he'll most likely choose them.

Mal wrote:

Schnix wrote:nope..... he's free to talk to any club atm

our board are a bunch of wanks. every day that passes by DDR's negotiating position strengthens

James Horncastle (Serie A expert) says De Rossi does want to sign a contract extension.. He's just waiting for the right offer.

of course, he's been a roma boy since he was born. of course he wants to sign. he just thinks we're man city and we can pay him like yaya toure

but he needs to realize that we're not man city and paying him monster wages is only going to hurt the club

BORINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, MAGICCCC

Game = OVER.

Mal wrote:Game = OVER.

careful. it's roma we're talking about here, not barca

2-0 by HT, who would've known

Roma

I hope De Rossi doesn't go to Man City, they would waste him, even though he would probably start

Benitez wrote:Roma

I hope De Rossi doesn't go to Man City, they would waste him, even though he would probably start

You are so dumb. He would be first choice playing for the best team in England, a team who are going to be challenging the best few teams in Europe for the foreseeable future, but he would be wasted?