In the early morning of December 14, Beijing time, the 17th round of the 2021-22 Serie A season was contested for the last match, and Roma sat at the Olympic Stadium in Rome against Spezia. After 90 minutes of fighting, Roma beat Spezia 2-0 at home.
After a two-game losing streak to Inter at the end of last week, Roma's rankings continued to fall, and they also fell out of the top 7 from the top 4. Today's home against the weak team, Roma is also trying to stop the decline, the opening just 5 minutes, Roma won the right corner opportunity, Kasdorp handled the penalty hanging to the back point, Abraham back to the head of a top, Smalling in front of the goal of the header relay head attack, the ball straight into the net, Roma 1:0 to achieve a fantastic start.
Roma then firmly grasped the situation on the pitch, in the first half of stoppage time Roma quickly advanced in the middle, Vigna turned the ball to the left, Mkhitaryan followed up with a low cross, Abraham's small penalty area forward grabbed the nodding mallet to attack the goal, BOOM, the ball was blocked by the crossbar. Easy side to fight again, just opened again, and it was another corner on the right. This time Villerttu sent the ball to the middle, Ibanes grabbed a powerful head hammer to attack the goal, the ball was in the net, Roma led 2-0.
Both sides then created a killing chance against each other, but they failed to seize the opportunity to break the goal. In the 61st minute, Spezia continued to besiege the front and Manaj scored in front of the goal, but the offside was blown after VAR confirmed. Roma also scored in final stoppage time, which at one point made Mourinho roar from the sidelines. In the 92nd minute, Roma counterattacked with a long pass over the top, Gian inserted a one-handed shot to squeeze out the defense, and the referee signaled that the goal was invalid, mourinho was angry at the time, after all, Roma also had to fight with Juve to win the goal. And this ball was not only blown off, referee Platra believed that Jian deliberately handballed, and also gave him a yellow card, Ji Ann two yellows turned red and was sent off, from the replay point of view, the referee to get a penalty seems to be nothing wrong. In the end, Roma scored with two corner kick opportunities in the first half to win, and the home victory over Spezia stopped the two-game losing streak.
In the standings, Napoli are struggling to stop their slump, and they are now not only surpassed by Milan, but also squeezed out of the top three by the real blue and black Atalanta. AC Milan also failed to continue the momentum, being overtaken by Inter to lose the top spot, and now the top four are fiercely competitive, and Inter is only 4 points away from Napoli. Roma, Juve are more difficult to compete for four, they also have to fight with Fiorentina 5, Roma won today, with a goal difference advantage to juve Juve out of the top 6.
In terms of top scorers, no one on the Roma side can score in the top ten, so there is no change in the top ten today, Verahović is at the top of the table with 15 goals, Mobile is second with a difference of 2 goals, and Simeone is 3rd with 11 goals. Ibrahimovic, Berardi and others raised the top ten threshold to seven goals.