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Did you see the second player? Roma did not

Roma never saw the second player. They generally chose to defend Immobile and lost the game. In the first goal, Immobile came back. He moved to the right side. 4 centre players (Ibanez, Mancini, Veretout and Cristante) headed to the right with Immobile. Seeing that the penalty area was empty, Anderson and Milinkovic (second player) scored the goal thanks to a very good communication. No one noticed Milinkovic's run into the penalty area.

In the second goal, Immobile took the ball in their own half. He just went left, not heading towards the centre. Again, these 4 players continued to play close to each other only on the left. Running to the centre, Pedro (second player) took the ball and scored.

In the third goal, Immobile went very fast behind the defence. Again, the centre-backs focused only on Immobile. This time it was Felipe Anderson (second player) who came from behind. Centre midfielders were late again. They didn't even run back. Vina tried, but it wasn't enough.

Another common feature of goals was the number of players. In all of them, Roma had more players, but because they focused only on the player who has the ball, they could not see the other opposing players (second player).































 

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