FENFenerbahçeClub page
ROMRomaClub page
Squad value€293.2m
Squad value€502.6m
Key playerMason Greenwood
Key playerManu Koné
Head coachİsmail Kartal
Head coachGian Piero Gasperini
Roma press high and Fenerbahçe insist on playing out through it. Expect the ball lost in dangerous places.
Fenerbahçe commit to keeping the ball and Roma are waiting to break the moment they lose it.
If you press their defenders they will pass back to the goalkeeper and go again through him rather than kick it long.
“Topu oyuna sokma başarısıyla da dikkatleri üzerine çeken Ederson, rakip hücum oyuncularının stoperlere baskı yaptığı anlarda takım arkadaşları için önemli bir pas opsiyonu oluyor.”Ederson, who also draws attention with his ability to bring the ball into play, becomes an important passing option for his team-mates in the moments when the opposition attackers press the centre-backs. our translation
Watch their left. Almost everything dangerous comes down that side, with the winger drifting inside towards goal.
“İrfan sağa, Greenwood merkeze geçtikten sonra Fenerbahçe oyunu adeta uçuşa geçti; özellikle sol kanadı otobana çevirdiler deyim yerindeyse.”After İrfan moved to the right and Greenwood into the centre, Fenerbahçe's play practically took off; they turned the left flank into a motorway, so to speak. our translation
For much of this season they have won games through expensive individuals rather than a pattern. When the stars go quiet, they can have the ball for half an hour and do nothing with it.
“Sahada iyi oyuncular var ama oyun yok. Daha doğrusu bir plan yok. İkinci-üçüncü bölge arası bağlantı yok.”There are good players on the pitch but there is no game. More precisely, there is no plan. There is no link between the second and third zones. our translation
Every Roma player picks up an opponent and follows him, so the whole team ends up camped in the other half. If the marking holds, the game barely leaves the opposition's side of the pitch.
“Le due punte sui due centrali in fase di possesso prevedono come conseguenza l’innalzamento degli esterni fino ai terzini per uno schieramento immediatamente sbilanciato in avanti che porta come naturale conseguenza, se le marcature ovviamente funzionano, a giocare nella metà campo avversaria, cosa che la Roma ha fatto praticamente per tutta la partita.”With the two forwards on the two centre-backs during the build-up, the consequence is that the wide players push up onto the full-backs, giving a shape immediately tipped forward, which naturally leads — if the marking is working, of course — to playing in the opponents' half, which is what Roma did for practically the whole match. our translation
If the other manager changes his line-up, Gasperini changes his to match within minutes, so each Roma player still has one direct opponent. Watch the shirts pair off all over the pitch.
“Dopo un po’ altro giro, altra corsa: Mandragora in campo al posto di Atta, 433 per i viola, 352 per la Roma, con i centrali sulle tre punte, i due esterni di centrocampo sui terzini, i tre centrocampisti a duellare con i dirimpettai e i due attaccanti davanti.”After a while, another turn of the wheel, another lap: Mandragora on for Atta, 4-3-3 for Fiorentina, 3-5-2 for Roma, with the centre-backs on the three forwards, the two wing-backs on the full-backs, the three midfielders duelling with their opposite numbers and the two strikers up front. our translation
New signing Rodrigo Mora plays as the one creator behind two strikers, and the front three keep swapping places rather than holding position.
“Per Gasperini nasce così un’altra Roma possibile: Mora numero 10, due punte davanti e continui scambi di posizione”So another possible Roma is born for Gasperini: Mora as the number 10, two strikers in front of him and constant swapping of positions our translation