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Serie A | Roma 1-0 Monza: El Shaarawy scrapes victory

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2 years ago

12:41 pm

Roma needed to wait till the 90^th minute to lastly break down 10-man Monza after hitting the woodwork twice, as Stephan El Shaarawy acquired the winner.

The Giallorossi had Diego Llorente accessible on the bench, however Paulo Dybala, Chris Smalling, Renato Sanches, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Tammy Abraham and Marash Kumbulla have been nonetheless on the therapy desk. Monza misplaced new signing Papu Gomez to a two-year doping ban, with Patrick Ciurria, Gianluca Caprari and Armando Izzo injured.

It took till the 36^th minute to have a real try on purpose from both facet, Andrea Belotti floating a cross from the appropriate for the Houssem Aouar header, which was nicely parried underneath the bar by Michele Di Gregorio from shut vary.

Monza went right down to 10 males simply earlier than half-time, as Danilo D’Ambrosio obtained his second yellow card, each of them for going by way of the again of Andrea Belotti.

Belotti nearly scored moments later with a diving header on the again publish, Di Gregorio saving on the road along with his toes.

After the restart, Andrea Colpani’s roller from distance skimmed the far prime nook and Leandro Paredes was lucky to keep away from a yellow card – which might’ve seen him suspended for the Inter journey – for a barge on Samuele Birindelli.

It was Birindelli who then pressured a flying save out of Rui Patricio with a scorching strike from the sting of the world, whereas Romelu Lukaku clipped the surface of the close to publish along with his effort.

Samuele Vignato’s spectacular cross-field move despatched Birindelli clear down the appropriate to check Rui Patricio once more, then Pablo Mari charged down each Stephan El Shaarawy and Lukaku makes an attempt in the identical transfer.

Vignato had a very good affect off the bench, seeing his solo run deflected for a nook, and Roma rattled the body of the purpose once more with Sardar Azmoun off the upright when Lukaku held up the ball.

The impasse was lastly damaged on the 90^th minute when Azmoun’s effort was charged down and El Shaarawy was prepared to fireplace within the rebound on the volley from 12 yards along with his proper boot. The participant had fairly every week, taking authorized motion in opposition to allegations he was concerned in unlawful playing. Jose Mourinho confirmed what that late purpose meant too, celebrating wildly on the touchline.

Nevertheless, he then acquired just a little too into the second, despatched off in stoppages for bickering with Raffaele Palladino’s Monza employees, making a ‘boo hoo’ crying gesture. He’ll due to this fact seemingly be suspended for the return to San Siro in opposition to Inter.

Giulio Donati pressured one final save from Rui Patricio, as Monza refused to offer in.

Roma 1-0 Monza

El Shaarawy 90 (R)

Despatched off: D’Ambrosio 41 (M)