2 to 0! With two headers from two centre-backs Smalling and Ibanez, Roma beat Spezia at home to end a two-game series of Serie A defeats.
This is not a wonderful game, one is because the Roma forward group is once again collectively mute, and the story of "frontal weakness" has not reversed, but has a sequel; second, because in the face of the relegation team, Roma is not fully in control of the game, And Mourinho obviously hopes that the team can do better; the third is the penalty of Roma young player Gian "two yellows turned into one red", how to see, how to feel funny.
Overall, though, it's still a place to get Roma players, to get Mourinho, to get Roma executives, to get Roma stars, to make Roma fans... All those associated with this club can be satisfied with the result, after all, Roma scored 3 points and completed a clean sheet.
In this game, Mourinho continued the previous 5-3-2 formation, but the combination of Mkhitaryan, Christant and Wellertu's three midfielders still has some awkwardness, a player with a biased forward attribute, with two back players, is actually not a positive triangle position, although it can be attributed to the position of the inverted triangle double center forward, but Mkhitaryan's way of moving is still a little forward, but a little biased to the left; Wellerto is still used to recycling, and the position reference system is still based on Christant.
This basically explains why Roma's control is not strong enough, and the type of midfielder does not meet the requirements of controlling the game, but this is also a matter of no way, who let Pellegrini hurt?
However, I am still a little confused, Mourinho prefers the protection of the back line with two backs, if Pellegrini can play, is it to remove Mkhitaryan? Or to remove Velato? It's a small question.
As for the "weak edge", Roma still have to endure this situation so far, although Mourinho has tailored a number of different personnel combinations and tactical designs for the team and for Tammy Abraham, but this can only maximize the flexibility and mobility of Abraham's atypical big center.
But shooting? What tactics have you seen that can improve a player's shooting skills in a short period of time? If there had been, Sterling wouldn't have carried the "Happy Boy" name for so many years.
Abraham's advantage lies in his running position and sense of smell, he is always able to drill a bloody path from the crowd, find the right route to suddenly appear in the right position to attack the opponent's goal; the weakness is the lack of core strength, even if there is no particularly strong interference around Abraham, his power when shooting is often not enough, often enough to kick the ball, the accuracy will naturally be greatly reduced.
The only way to solve this problem is to enhance core strength training, there is no shortcut to speak of, fortunately, it is not a basically impossible goal to improve explosiveness and speed, and Abraham's dexterous type of center player does not need particularly strong muscles, and he must not be able to pull and stumble like Vieri and Drogba.
For example, we can look at the goals of Roma's two centre-backs, the starting force of Smalling and Ibanez, which is obviously not a magnitude, Mourinho said that he did 25 minutes of set-piece training before the game, and it seems that he also anticipated this kind of offensive battle, which requires the center-backs to play well.
With several central defenders with explosive physical fitness, Roma can actually drive backwards at key moments.
However, the participation of the center-back in the attack, and even after the return of the "great left" Spinazzola in the future, can also provide a lot of help to the Roma attack, but this is only a means of assisting the attack, in the final analysis, Roma still has to improve the offensive level of the front, for example, at the beginning of the season, Pellegrini's goal efficiency is also good, but Roma's attack can not always rely on midfielders, right?
Roma's fall in the middle of the group is obviously inseparable from the lack of strength of the front group.
However, to solve the problem of "weak front", on the one hand, Mourinho needs to design tactics for Abraham, on the other hand, it also requires Abraham to train harder on the field, although it is impossible to have much improvement in a short period of time, but day after day, there is always a day of quantitative change and accumulation.