We are welcoming in the olimpico Shakhtar Donetsk . The second trip to eastern europe will be hard, so we need to get a good result in this game. This is Shakhtar's first official game in 2011, as there league stops through a 2 - 3 month period I think. They are already in Rome as well since yesterday ( Saturday Febraruy 12 2011).( http://shakhtar.com/en/news/15949 ) . This might be a good sign as Shakhtar might not be match fit, or it maybe a bad sign as Shakhtar have only been preparing for this game for a month. - We are only team in last 16 to have not kept any cleensheet in all our six games. We must keep a cleensheet at Home !!!! - We have won five of our last six home games in Champions League. Our record was so good in Serie A as well before playing NaBoli and Brescia.I hope we dont screw up here. - In 2006 - 2007 we were drawn against Shakhtar in group stage. We won them 4 - 0 At Home, and lost 1 - 0 away. - Shakhtar have lost all six away European games in Italy. Okey, the champions league will take alot of energy out of us. Other then the fact on the weekend Napoli tried to take us mentally off the game, it could very well be our players were so much out of the game mentally and were so much tempered because of this particulare game vs Shakhtar in mind. FORZA ROMAAAAAAAAAAA!
At last no negativety from your side Must win, and must qualify for at least the next round (I am gathering the transfer money for the summer)...Also, we must finish top 4 in serie A this year and that should be our objective from this point on...We need those millions of euros to spend in the summer and I think CL is the only place we can get it
Can we play a full strength squad for CL? Something like J.Sergio Cassetti Mexes Juan Riise DDR Pizarro Menez Perrotta Vucinic Totti
Spalletti's Roma trashing Shakhtar Donetsk 4 - 0 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOfhutLZMPk"]YouTube - As Roma vs Shakhtar 4-0 Taddei - Totti - De Rossi - Pizarro[/ame]
Hi people. I'm a big fan of Shakhtar and really looking forward to this match on wednesday I have no idea what the score will be on in the first leg if i'm honest but i feel we will most likely win the second leg in the Ukraine. Being an Italian team i don't think you will like the speed in which we will try to play at so if I was Ranieri i would want to keep the ball as much as possible and control the pace of the game. We definately cannot be under estimated and it will probably only be a goal either way in the end of the two legs.
Ah, that was fun to watch and that cross makes me wish we had Pizarro at our disposal. He controls everything so well in the middle and I think he is our top corner man. I remember his goal from that game since he does not score that many. I forgot about Ferrari and of course seeing Mancini again after his long bench warming stint at Inter Forza Roma!
True some of that, but we're so preseason right now, don't you remember we always suck first 4-5 games (watching Dubai Cup and helplessness of our defence later on Copa del Sol and UNT matches wasn't really comforting experience) which some season cost us as much as eurocompetions instanly? This and only this make me think that Roma are clear favourites at our clash due to circus defending. As that 4:0 embarassment where Shakhtar dominated most of the time really. And I guess we may dominate again, but that's not nowhere near means that we would win or manage to get a draw at Rome. We're not ready for speed possession all the game.
Yeah i agree. I like the fact that Lucescu has taken the team to Rome early and not the day before like other team sometimes do. I watched them against Napoli saturday and i really wasn't impressed at all with the defence and the attack was pretty toothless. I think if we leave Rome with a draw or even if we are losing 1-0 or 2-1 i will fancy our chances if im honest. Really hope we get an away goal atleast.
Vucinic has a "fever" and will likely miss the match, also Julio Sergio abandoned training due to some muscular problems.
If it's true that Vucinic will miss this game, I'm gutted. I honestly don't have a clue what to expect on Wednesday. It could be another drab display or we could see a reaction from the terrbile performance against Napoli. God only knows
Honestly, I'm really worried this is where our season completely falls apart. If we get knocked out of CL, it's not too big a deal, I don't expect us to get much further than the next round anyway, but with the game against Inter and Napoli....This team looks completely deflated, no one cares right now. And really if the team is going to piss away CL this year and next year, as well as piss away our 10th Coppa Italia...I'd say blow the team up. I love this team with a passion, I love Vucinic, Menez, Mexes, Totti, De Rossi...but if these guys are just going to quit and piss everything they worked for away because they don't like the coach, get rid of them, All of them. You can hate your coach but have some ****ing pride.
It will be interesting which type of tactics both clubs use and also how rusty Shakhtar Donetsk might be.
I think we are going to see a patched up Roma tonight. A lot of people are suffering small injuries and problems. On ReteSport they speculated: Doni Cassetti - Mexes - Burdisso - Riise Taddei - Simplicio - De Rossi - Perrotta Totti - Menez Borriello has problems with his knee, Vucinic also has some problems and has been playing with pain the last couple of matches, plus I read he had a fever yesterday. Julio Sergio abandoned training yesterday due to muscular problems. Squad list: 1 BOGDAN LOBONT 3 PAOLO CASTELLINI 4 JUAN SILVEIRA DOS SANTOS 5 PHILIPPE MEXES 9 MIRKO VUCINIC 10 FRANCESCO TOTTI 11 RODRIGO FERRANTE TADDEI 16 DANIELE DE ROSSI 17 JOHN ARNE RIISE 20 SIMONE PERROTTA 22 MARCO BORRIELLO 23 LEANDRO GRECO 29 NICOLAS BURDISSO 30 SIMPLICIO FABIO HENRIQUE 32 DONIEBER ALEXANDER MARANGON (DONI) 33 MATTEO BRIGHI 45 STEFANO PETTINARI 77 MARCO CASSETTI 94 JEREMY MENEZ
God I miss seeing number 7 in the squad list Tommorrows gonna be a horrible match I think without Vuci, even if Menez plays its not like Totti and Borriello could keep up with him meaning wasted crosses into an empty box
yuck! Reading this made me feel sick since we will probably play worse than the match against Napoli. Glad I won't be able to watch the game tomorrow.
Despite all of the negativity and loss of hope that we have all experienced lately, we need to win this game today. The players need a reminder that they are capable of winning and maybe this could be a good confidence booster for them. Also, Serie A needs better representation in the CL, were not gonna get it from Milan this year, so its up to us and Inter. We may be a poor squad when you factor in everything that has happened, but were better than this. We can beat Shakhtar. Forza Roma!
We do really need to pick up some confidence if we want CL next season. It's far from unreachable, only 2 points if we beat Bologna.
FSC has decided to show Arsenal-Barcelona (I dont blame them ).... Anywhere that we can watch Roma on TV in the USA?