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Serie A | Roma 2-0 Frosinone: Dybala inspires revival

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Serie A | Roma 2-0 Frosinone: Dybala inspires revival

Romelu Lukaku and Lorenzo Pellegrini made essentially the most of Paulo Dybala assists to offer Roma their second Serie A win of the season and Frosinone’s second defeat.

The Giallorossi have been in disaster after one Serie A win in six rounds, coming off a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Genoa. Diego Llorente joined Chris Smalling, Renato Sanches, Tammy Abraham and Marash Kumbulla on the remedy desk, so Bryan Cristante dropped into defence. Frosinone have been then again unbeaten for the reason that opening weekend, although Kaio Jorge, Pol Lirola, Francesco Gelli and Abdou Harroui weren’t totally match.

Stefano Turati struggled with an in-swinging Paulo Dybala nook, whereas Gianluca Mancini intercepted the Riccardo Marchizza pull-back for Marvin Cuni.

Frosinone threatened to take the lead on 18 minutes when Cuni ran onto a ball excessive, taking it away from each Rui Patricio and Evan Ndicka, however then narrowed the angle an excessive amount of and was solely capable of hit the side-netting. The guests additionally misplaced Simone Romagnoli to damage moments later.

As an alternative, Roma broke the impasse when Mancini’s via ball was flicked on by Dybala for Lukaku, who with a change of path despatched a defender to floor, releasing up the house to drill in from 12 yards.

Cuni went shut once more, blasting off track after working onto a Matias Soule ball excessive, whereas Lukaku stung Turati’s gloves on a Lorenzo Pellegrini counter-attack.

Baez examined Rui Patricio on the close to publish, whereas Dybala dribbled down the left to drag again from the by-line and Ilario Monterisi risked an personal aim to forestall the Lukaku tap-in.

Turati rushed off his line and used his legs to parry from Edoardo Bove on the close to publish, however Soule flashed a ball throughout the six-yard field that no one was able to faucet in.

Bove fired over from a Dybala lay-off and Pellegrini was about to come back off when visibly exhausted, however Mourinho delayed the change till after a free kick.

It was a smart resolution, as a result of Dybala floated the set play to the again publish the place Pellegrini volleyed in along with his proper boot from the tightest of angles.

The fatigue was attending to everybody together with referee Matteo Marchetti, who needed to halt play for a couple of minutes as a result of he too had cramp, resulting in 9 minutes of stoppages.

Roma 2-0 Frosinone

Lukaku 22 (R), Pellegrini 83 (R)