Roma-Juventus 3-3
GOALS: 39’pt Wesley, 2’st Conceicao, 9’st Ndicka, 20’st Malen, 33’st Boga, 48’st Gatti.
ROMA (3-4-2-1): Svilar 6; Celik 6, Mancini 6, Ndicka 7; Rensch 6.5 (29’st Ghilardi 6), Cristante 5.5 (29’st El Aynaoui 6), Kone 7, Wesley 7; Pisilli 7, Pellegrini 6 (45’st Zaragoza sv); Malen 7. On the bench: De Marzi, Zelezny, Angelino, Tsimikas, Venturino, Dybala, Ziolkowski, Arena, Vaz, El Shaarawy. Coach: Gasperini 6.
JUVENTUS (4-2-3-1): Perin 6; Kalulu 5.5, Bremer 6 (43’st Gatti 7), Kelly 5.5, Cambiaso 6 (43’st Openda sv); Thuram 6 (26’st Miretti 6), Koopmeiners 6; Conceicao 7 (26’st Zhegrova 6), McKennie 6, Yildiz 6; David 5 (18’st Boga 7). On the bench: Di Gregorio, Pinsoglio, Adic, Kostic, Cabal. Coach: Spalletti 6.
REFEREE: Sozza di Seregno 6.
NOTES: clear evening, soil in good condition. Booked: Wesley. Corners: 4-1. Recovery time: 1st half, 4th half.
Roma and Juve put on an equal show, with Gasperini running away and Spalletti coming back from 1-3 to 3-3 and keeping the chances of Champions League qualification alive for next year. Milan puts a claim on second place by winning, at the last minute but deservedly, in Cremona and placing themselves on the right path for the derby in the next round. It won’t be a big threat for an Inter at +10 and who have disposed of the waste of the serious stumble against Bodo by regulating Genoa with the usual contribution of super Di Marco, but Serie A now has a designated winner. The crowded Champions League race temporarily loses a unit. While Naples and Como advance, the only survivor who reached the Champions League round of 16 comes to an abrupt halt, the fast-paced Atalanta, who is hampered by a luxury Sassuolo who also dribbles the handicap of 75′ played with ten men for a red card to Pinamonti. It is a considerable feat, which repeats the success of the first leg which cost Juric his place, because the Emilians won 2-1, resisting a continuous but lackluster forcing from the Lombards.
It’s a 3-3 show at the Olimpico, with Gatti equalizing in the 93rd minute and Spalletti thanking him. A knockout would have dropped them to -7 from the Champions League zone, so the distances from fourth place Roma remain unchanged (-4), who are complaining. Going ahead with Wesley at the end of the first half, Conceicao equalizes at the start of the second half: two pearls that mark the balance between the two teams. But then a goal from Ndicka from a corner and the usual Malen put Roma ahead, the 3-1 slows down the Giallorossi rather than definitively drowning Juve who shortens with Boga and regains a precious point with Gatti, only for the strike in front of goal from a free kick by Zeghrova.