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| Nicolo' Zaniolo (Picture taken from IrishTimes.com) |
ROMA-PORTO=2-1 Nicolo'Zaniolo 70'and 76',Adrian Lopez 79'.
Roma in the name of Nicolo' Zaniolo. The hot prospect given away by Inter to Rome like he was just a piece of bargain to exchange is revealing himself as a decisive man. Never like today before. The kid was put on the pitch almost as a third striker on the right wing supporting Edin Dzeko together with El Shaarawy. The Di Francesco's team definitely dominated for most of the match but Mirante had some work to do anyway but he was always very reactive and ready. First half was good and unlucky for the Italian capital city's team which also got a tremendous post with Dzeko. The second half Roma brought themselves much more forward, pushing and looking for the victory goals. They scored 2 within 6 minutes with Zaniolo (70'and 76'), perfectly served by Dzeko in the first occasion and shooting under the defender's legs beating Iker Casillas while in the second ones the youngster was perfectly ready to push the ball in after another post gotten by Edin. You need to be cold as ice to score that kind of goals anyway even if it looks very easy. Brahimi was one of the best man on the pitch for Porto. The Portuguese team looked in difficulty for most of the match but never seemed completely out of the game indeed they managed to score a very important goal at 79' with Adrian Lopez who found himself in a perfect position to easily score right in front of Mirante thanks to a very fortunate wrong shot assist which had such a strange trajectory that kept Lopez in game. That was a very bad luck for Roma which celebrated the victory but with some sour in their mouths since you know very well how dangerous is to get an away goal. 2-1 ! The Porto's coach Sergio Conceicao will definitely try to kick Roma out also in the name of old historical derbys as a former Lazio's player.
MANCHESTER UNITED-PSG=0-2 Presnel Kimpembe 53',Kylian Mbappe 60'
The other match was between Manchester United and Paris Saint Germain ended 0-2 and that was the first defeat of the Solskjaer time leading the Red Devils. The two goals passive maybe is too severe but when you play against a Mbappe and Di Maria so inspired there's not much you can do. Neymar Jnr and Cavani weren't even on the pitch so probably the Manchester United should have done much better in front of goals but a very focused Buffon and a good defence helped the Parisians to get out of the Old Trafford with a clean sheet. Let's also say that De Gea avoided a much worst passive. It's gonna take a miracle to upset this result in the second leg. We already cross them off because the PSG in the house playing with the complete First Team is already hard to beat, imagine with 2 goals of advantage.
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