Dybala’s return encourages (half) of Mourinho’s Roma

José Mourinho’s Roma did not raise their heads. For the third day in a row, the ‘giallorosso’ team was left without a victory, a fact this takes them out of fourth place. This time he barely managed to draw home against a pragmatic Turin who took oil from Olímpico with a header from Linetty (0-1). The added point is explained by reappearance of Paulo Dybalawho returned to play after his injury and revived a ‘wolf’ destined for defeat, taking a penalty (Belotti missed) and crashing the ball against the precursor post of Matic’s equaliser.

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Turin

Rome: Rui Patricio; Gianluca Mancini, Chris Smailling, Roger Ibanez; Zeki Celik, Bryan Cristante (Benjaimo Tahirovic, m.69), Mady Camara (Nemanja Matic, m.54), Nicola Zalewski (Paulo Dybala, m.70); Cristian Volpato (Stephan El Shaarawy, m.46), Nicolo Zaniolo and Tammy Abraham (Andrea Belotti, m.70).

Turin: Vanja Milinkovic Savic; Koffi Djudji, David Zima, Alessandro Buengiorno (Ricardo Rodríguez, m .52); Valentino Lazaro, Samuele Ricci, Karol Linetty (Michel Adopo, m.80), Mergim Vojvoda (Wilfried Singo, m.30); Aleksey Miranchuk (Nemanja Radonjic, m.79), Nikola Vlasic and Antonio Sanabria.

The objectives: 0-1, m.55: Karol Linetty. 1-1, m.94 Nemanja Matic

Referee: Antonio Rapuano. He dismissed Jose Mourinho, the local coach, and showed yellow cards to Mady Camara, Paulo Dybala and Benjamin Tahirovic, from Roma; and to Blessandro Buengiorno and Valentino Lazaro, from Torino.

Incidents: against the fifteenth day of Serie A played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

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The presence of The Jewel is the only positive of a Roma which accumulate failures. In the last match, against Sassuolo (1-1), Mourinho did not hesitate to point out that one of his players (Rick Karsdorp) called him a “traitor”, an episode that characterizes the charged atmosphere surrounding the team of Roman. In fact, the Portuguese went mad and were sent off for angrily protesting the referee. A lot of nerves, a little game and bad form.

The truth is that Rome He didn’t do anything to win the match. Torino planted himself on the field and waited for his moment to launch a fatal blow linetty he headed in a wonderful cross from Singo in the 55′.

Before the goal there were almost no clear chances to score, which enhanced the cliché that defenses prevailed over attacks. The negative vortex of Rome This was emphasized as soon as Linetty’s goal was conceded, with haste taking over the team and a Mourinho who lost his temper.

Fortunately, Roman painting was used Paulo DybalaWHO the party’s fortunes again appeared to change. First forced by punishment at the discount sent by Andrea Belotti, former captain of Torino, and then he threw the left which turned out to be the perfect assist for Matic as he hit the crossbar. The Serbian hits the rebound off the post and saves a bitter point for Roma (94′).