SSN BET - Match of the Day: Roma - Portu / 12.02.2019

smartell (70)in #sports • 5 years ago

Hi guys!
Roma passes much recently and in general shows not the best football.

Roma

Roma in the current season does not show that a game for which fans waited from it. After 23 wolves tours go on the fourth line, but the main competitor has Milan on a game less therefore there is every chance that Eusebio Di Francesco's team will approach the next tour out of a zone of the Champions League.
After extremely unsuccessful series from three matches without victories, including defeat 1:7 from Fiorentina in the Cup of Italy, "wolves" in the last tour managed to be adjusted and beat the main outsider of the Chievo championship. The convincing victory 3:0 obviously has to give to football players of Roma of self-confidence before the major meeting in the Champions League.
The goalkeeper Robin Olsen and the midfielder Under will not manage to be restored to a duel with Porto, and here Konstantinos Manolas who was missing a match with Chievo has to be ready to play.

Portu

Porto perfectly carried out a group stage – Conceicao team never for six matches lost, having lost glasses in the unique match, having drawn with Schalke on a visit in the first round. In the championship of Portugal at "dragons" also full order – the first place and a lead in four points over second Benfica.
Defeat from Sporting in the cup-final of League became the only serious failure of Porto, but in the main time of team drew therefore with Roma "dragons" approach a duel with a series from 26 matches. In the last tour Conceicao's wards painted a draw 1:1 with Moreirense, but played not absolutely main structure, saving forces before the Champions League.
Vincent Abubakar's absence and Moussa Marega will become serious loss for Porto, Maximiliano Pereira also risks to miss a meeting.

Statistics and personal meetings

Only in one of five last matches Roma did not pass
Teams met in the Champions League twice in 2016, in each of these matches Porto scored and did not lose
Only in one of the last seven matches of Porto did not score
In all six matches of a group stage Porto scored

Roma in the last tour beat Chievo dry, but hardly this victory solved all problems of Romans, especially those which concern a game in defense. The outsider of Series A was simply incapable to create many problems to "wolves", but here with teams which attack works more powerfully, Roma has great difficulties.
Such team is also Porto which gathered the powerful course now and scores goals in gate of rivals packs, even despite the absence of two main forwards. "Dragons" will obviously not come to Rome to sit out in defense, they perfectly know about problems of Romans and will try to use them.