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AS Roma – The Winning Streak That Just Won’t End
Without Francesco Totti and without Maicon, sent off after 66 minutes, Roma still made it out with their perfect start to the season intact and improved, picking up a 1-0 win over Udinese through a late Michael Bradly goal, making everyone wonder when exactly will this team finally be stopped, and who can exactly do it.
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Francesco Totti & The Amazing Numbers at Old Age
While it is arguable whether or not Francesco Totti is actually playing well as Roma tear from the Italian league, it’s hard denying his efficiency, which is quite easy to demonstrate through numbers, making him quite a phenomenon at the advanced footballing age of 37.
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AS Roma Are the Only Undefeated Team Left in Italy
While we have seen the “new” Juventus under Antonio Conte lose from time to time (not much really), it’s rare to see them collapsing as they did in the 4-2 loss against Fiorentina, which makes Roma the only team still undefeated in the Serie A, not to mention perfect, alone in that manner compared to the rest of Europe.
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Miralem Pjanic With a Beautiful Free Kick (Roma vs Napoli)
The AS Roma train isn’t stopping for anyone, and even the early injury of Francesco Totti didn’t spoil the party, as Miralem Pjanic stepped in perfectly in the role of the set piece takes, scoring a beautiful free kick just before half time and converted another penalty kick in a 2-0 win over Napoli, keeping the league leaders perfect so far this season.
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AS Roma – Gervinho Is the Biggest Surprise of All
In the whole surprise act that are AS Roma, leading the Italian Serie A with a perfect record of 7 wins from 7 matches, the resurgence of Gervinho, who looked like a lost cause during his short tenure with Arsenal, might be the most stunning of all.
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AS Roma – Francesco Totti Keeps the Perfection Going
Maybe until he doesn’t win a second Serie A title with AS Roma and become the greatest scorer in league history, Francesco Totti won’t retire. A brace in the clinical 3-0 win over Inter, he led his team to carry on with their perfect start, while pushing himself closer to the seemingly unreachable Silvio Piola.
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From the Shocking AS Roma, to the Solid Juventus & Napoli, to the Predictably Awful AC Milan
Even though five matches aren’t enough to tell us how the season in the Serie A will unfold, it is quite shocking to see AS Roma perfect up until now, while nothing is surprising about Juventus and Napoli looks solid, confident and undefeated, while the problems at AC Milan, a club that’s great only by name, shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
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Arsenal FC Transfer Rumors – Erik Lamela Being Offered to Them
With financial issues at AS Roma forcing them to sell players, young and talented Erik Lamela might be on his way to the Premier League. Tottenham have been the club usually mentioned with the Argentinian, but it seems that Arsenal might be in the mix as well, and probably with an advantage.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Marquinhos to PSG, Thiago Silva to Barcelona?
Behind all the drama currently going on for AS Roma with the radio station reveal of a discussion between club executives, is also an actually option of young Brazilian centre back Marquinhos leaving to PSG, which might allow Barcelona to sign Thiago Silva.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester United Now See AS Roma Trying to Sign Kevin Strootman
Not too long ago it seemed that nothing is going to stop Kevin Strootman from joining Manchester United, but for the past month no progress has been made between PSV and the Premier League champions, while AS Roma are the ones to have actually make an offer for the player.