The Giallorossi suffer the Brazilian (a sign) but in the final turn the result with three goals in the last quarter of an hour: good Kluivert and Schick.
The result is beautiful, beautiful. It should be taken for what it is, a victory in friendly with Barcelona B that in the second half has deployed only the boys of the cantera, but gives an evening of good humor to Rome under the eyes of President Pallotta, arrived in Dallas in the company of other executives just to attend the second stage of the American tour.
Roma suffered Barça's reserves and also conceded a nasty goal, just in Malcom, but in the end they enjoyed the change in the game system: with the experiment of 3-4-1-2, they came three goals in a quarter of an hour. The changes in Valverde, useful for enhancing the green line, have obviously facilitated the situation. But it is positive that Rome has been able to take advantage of it, demonstrating athletic growth and compactness.
Di Francesco has changed nine-eleventh of the formation that had begun the first friendly with Tottenham, confirming Manolas and changing the band to Santon (past left). The colleague Valverde has immediately presented the purchase contested Malcom, the first to be held in Barça, in a team almost improvised because of so many illustrious absences: in the offensive trident there were also Munir as strikers and Aleix Vidal, who is a fullback right, as left wing.
Yet in the first quarter of an hour the Roma danced a lot, too much, dominated by the dribble and the accelerations of the opponents: a ball played badly by De Rossi vertically (6 ') triggered the fast restart and the spectacular goal of the Rafinha player , good at exchanging with Munir after Malcom's initial heel. An exemplary goal for the game taught by Di Francesco undergone by a team of Di Francesco.
Nothing to do for Olsen, the absolute debut in Rome. But it was the Swedish goalkeeper to save his own shortly after (9 ') on another Barça percussion that came when he wanted on his right front of attack: just Malcom kicked the wrong foot from a comfortable distance, finding Olsen to bar his way. It seemed, in short, a similar script compared to the defeat of San Diego, with the Romanist midfield unable to keep the balance in balance.
But at the time of greater difficulty Rome has had the patience to suffer, to accept, without becoming a slave to the possession of others and without exasperating the pressure. Slowly he got back on the pitch and after an unsettling shot by Florenzi he found the draw (35 '): Kluivert's thrust was fired, right wing and very quick to take the bottom line, cross in the middle for El Shaarawy Barcelona had left only and 1-1 of flat.
Meanwhile, the 55,000 spectators of the incredible Atkins of the Dallas Cowboys, a funfair more than a stadium, showed to appreciate the show with the old Hola of the Hispanic matrix. At that point the game has reopened. And he left room for a few moments of nervousness, perhaps inherited from the recent quarter of the Champions League: three ammonites in the first half with a fight hinted at by Manolas and Aleix Vidal. The interval, from which a Barça was completely revolutionized by the entrance of its young people, has been extremely opportune.
And after the goal annulled to El Shaarawy for almost imperceptible offside (launch of Manolas) fate has meant that it was just Malcom to bring forward the Catalans. Rafinha's inspiration was also decisive, then an unlucky rebound that the newcomer Yves Tabla was able to convert into assists for the newcomer, placed better than Santon in the area.
It was a joke for Roma, who after an hour made his swirl of changes and risked to collect the third goal: this time it was phenomenal Mirante, substitute of Olsen, to close the door to Abel Ruiz. Here, too, the feeling was that the youthful Barcelona could take off. Instead development was similar to the first half. As soon as Di Francesco inserted the national Fazio and Kolarov and tested the three-way defense, with the three-quarter pastor, Roma overturned the result: first he drew the draw with Florenzi, assisted by Schick and cold to get on a shot rejected by Perotti .
Then he completed the overtaking with Cristante, who entered the gap in the young Barça defense after a good initiative by Luca Pellegrini, and finally found the fourth goal on a penalty with Perotti after a foul in the Cuenca area on Schick.
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