Football. Ua represents the announcement of the final match of the 33rd round of Serie A between Pescara and Roma.
Pescara - Roma Monday, 21:45, Pescara, Adriatico Stadium Giovanni Cornaccia, referee - Massimiliano Irrati.
The final program of the 33rd round of the championship of Italy, the duel between Pescara and Roma is simply obliged to fit organically into the series of enchanting spectacles that the Serie A gave us on Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps the last team of the elite Italian division will not be able to surprise us, which recently we are regularly treated by other applicants for the flight - Empoli and Croton, but Roma is simply obliged to please their dejected fans.
To say that Roma continues to compete with Juventus for the championship title after the leader scored three more points on Sunday is hardly appropriate. The Wolves still have mathematical chances, but in this situation the priority is to secure their second position and increase the gap from Napoli still dreaming of a direct ticket to the group stage of the Champions League.
Another task for the metropolitan team is to help Edina Dzeko head alone, and in the future to win the bombing race. His rival Andrea Belotti of Torino in the current round was marked only by productive transfer.
Also only mathematical can be called Pescara's chances of maintaining a propiska in Serie A. The amazing spurt Croton, who scored 10 points in the last four rounds, and the victories of the awakened Empoli increased the Delphin's lag from the saving 17th place to 15 points. Even such a miracle is unlikely to help liquidate such an abyss for the 6 remaining matches..
In such a situation, Zdenek Zeman is now ready to prepare the team for a grueling fight in Serie B for returning to the elite, gradually weeding out the "ballast" and making up a list of potential gains. However, a wise expert experience for sure it would be nice to be worthy to speak out against a team with whom he once worked quite successfully.
An interesting fact - Pescara never won Roma in his field - 4 draws and 2 losses.
Approximate compositions of Pescara: Fiorillo - Dzampano, Coda, Campagnaro, Biragi - Memushai, Muntari, Coulibaly - Brugman, Baebeck, Caprari.
Roma: Schesny - Rudiger, Manolas, Fasio, Mariu Rui - Strootman, De Rossi - Salah, Nainggolan, Perotti - Jacko.
Injured: Gilardino, Pepe, Vitturini - Florence, Totti.
In doubt: Emerson (Roma).
The words Zdenek Zeman, Pescara's coach:.
"I lived in Rome for 25 years, I have many friends both in Rome and in Lazio. But this does not mean that I will prepare my team somehow differently than against other rivals. I hope that we will be able to create Roma problems, but I'm not going to take revenge on my former team, putting her in the wheel at the finish. We have enough of our worries, and we think only about the struggle for survival, not about the champion ambitions of Roma. We have practically no chance to keep a residence permit in Serie A, but we will be able to remember how we managed to raise Pescara to the elite in the 2011/12 season, after we lose even the theoretical possibilities ".
Luciano Spalletti, the coach of Roma:.
"Pescara is not as simple as it seems. Now this is not the team that was before the appointment of Zeman.
If he had been returned earlier, she certainly would not have been in such an unenviable position. However, I believe that teams of the caliber of Roma should concentrate not on the capabilities of the opponent, but on their own strengths. When we manage to show everything we are capable of, the name of the opponent does not matter. Our calendar at the finish line is a bit more complicated than the competition, but we are going to win all the remaining matches, and there it will be clear what place we will take ".
Forecast 1: 3.