Roma demolishes Cagliari: 4-0, Champions at one point
A thundering victory, boosting Champions ambitions in no small part.
Roma unstoppable at the Olimpico against Cagliari. Daniele De Rossi’s team got the better of the great ex Claudio Ranieri with a 4-0 without stories, matured already in the first half. Paulo Dybala (author of a double) and his teammates now move just one point away from fourth place currently occupied by Atalanta. That has sì a game to recover, but against the leader Inter.
Daniele De Rossi’s inspired Roma, now on its third consecutive win in Serie A, unblocked the match after just 2 minutes: credit to Lorenzo Pellegrini, who took advantage of a scrum on the development of a corner and beat Scuffet. Already; in the next quarter of an hour Cristante and El Shaarawy come close to doubling the score, which materializes on 23'. Dybala scored, at the end of a choral action started by El Shaarawy and sealed by Pellegrini's assist, complete with Lukaku's sumptuous veil. And before halftime Lukaku also swells the net, but the flag raised for offside thwarts everything.
Cagliari, before halftime, claims a penalty that the Var does not validate, then sinks. In the opening of the resumption Cristante again goes close to the net, then comes a penalty this time for the Giallorossi: hands of Petagna in the area, from the penalty spot Dybala realizes at 51'. Already, at 59' the poker arrives, thanks to a Huijsen framing on the development of a Paredes corner. The game has no more history, despite the pinwheel of substitutions ordered by Ranieri. On the contrary, Lukaku squanders the 5-0 ball, also cancelled out to Bove for offside. And the news for Roma looks only good.
