ATENE (GRECIA) (ITALPRESS) – A Roma without centring and in numerical inferiority for 75 minutes draws 1-1 in Athens against the Panathinaikos and defends with the teeth the direct pass for the eighth finals of Europa League. It is Ziolkowski’s first Giallorossi goal to exult Gasperini, forced to do without Dybala (on the bench for 90′ due to a knee discomfort), the injured Dovbyk and Ferguson and the new purchases Malen and Vaz, which will be included in the Uefa list starting from the direct elimination phase. Among the difficulties of training Rome immediately strikes three clear occasions and it complicates life alone. After a minute the former porter of Fiorentina Lafont denies the goal at Tsimikas, then at the 7′ gives ball to Soulè and Pellegrini who lose the moment and fail to beat on the net. At 11’ Ziolkowski wasted the ball by kicking out safely on the developments of a football. The usual version of a Roma sciupona under door is not accompanied this time by the defensive solidity that characterized the first part of the season. It is Mancini who commits the naivety that changes the race to 15′: Pantovic escapes the defender, who distracts him and stretches him before he could appear in front of Gollini (at the Giallorossi debut instead of Svilar). For the referee Munuera is yellow, but at the Var the tag turns red. Roma without centring and in numerical inferiority yields the ball of the game. The most important occasion of the Greeks in the first time is a conclusion from the distance to 37′ Katris (replaced of the flute Calabria), which affects the crossing. At the range Gasperini removes the only attacker in the field: outside Soulè, inside Ndicka. Rome seems to hold the shock, but a naivety of Ghilardi costs the disadvantage to 58′: the former Verona with a sbile blow of head puts in motion Taborda, that avoids the return of the yellowish central and with the right hole Gollini. In the most total emergency, Roma closes with the attack made up of the Tertilian Rensch and the Trequartista della Primavera Della Rocca, to the debut in Giallorossi. To mark the goal of the tie is a defender, Ziolkowski, who exploits a cross of Pisilli to frame in the network of head. In the final there is also room for the return to the field of Angelino, which was missing from December 11 when he played a small bit of race against Celtic. It is another good news for Rome that closes to eighth place the championship and will see Europe in March, avoiding the playoffs. It remains possible, waiting for the draw tomorrow at 13, the derby against Bologna.– photo Ipa Agency – (ITALPRESS).
