Dybala saves Juric’s bench, 1-0 to Turin

Roma temporarily tries to silence the criticism and regains victory in the championship by narrowly beating Torino. At the Olimpico it ended 1-0 thanks to Dybala’s flash in the 20th minute, chosen from the ‘false nine’ after Dovbyk’s last-minute withdrawal. The former Juric’s team, which hadn’t won for over a month, thus rises to 13 points, moving to -1 from Vanoli’s granata, who find themselves a knockout after the home success against Como.

The Giallorossi got off to a much better start as they began to bring pressure to the Granata’s half of the pitch, then found the advantage in the 20th minute thanks to Dybala: the Argentinian took advantage of an error from Linetty and, after having missed Milinkovic on the way out, headed into the net the 1-0 (Masina’s save attempt was in vain). The Romans controlled the match quite easily, but once half an hour had passed the guests tried to stick their noses out and scared Svilar with a header from Maripan, which was however blocked by the Serbian goalkeeper.

At the start of the second half Roma came close to doubling their lead by hitting the post with Pisilli, but any goal from the young Roman would have been made in vain by an offside by Angelino at the start of the action. A few moments later, however, Milinkovic is forced to intervene on Le Fee’s attempt, while on the opposite side Svilar dives to the right foot of the newly introduced Njie. Not much happens in the remaining time, the guests show a timid pressure towards the end but the result doesn’t change.

The words of the coach

“It was important to get back on the right path. We played an excellent match against a difficult team to face. The boys were good at playing and in the defensive phase”, the Roma coach told Dazn after the 1-1 victory. 0 against Torino. “After Florence there were difficult moments, and rightly so, but now we have to think only about football and performances – added the Giallorossi coach -. Today I saw the team very concentrated and we conceded very little to Torino. I’m satisfied with who started and who joined”. THE

‘Olimpico alternated whistles and applause: “We have to make our fans smile and make them rejoice again. I heard some applause and only with these performances can we regain their trust”. Then on the conditions of the individuals: “Pellegrini on the bench? It was a technical choice, but he came in well as captain. Dovbyk (out of the squad) had a virus, I hope to recover from it for Sunday. The solution with a false nine went well today “.