The unthinkable. What no one would ever have expected anything like this with Josè Mourinho on the bench. Another colossal loss. Biblical. Perhaps the worst, because this time there were no Manchester, Barcelona or Bayern in front. Nor Fiorentina. Roma not only take 6 goals home minnow by Norwegian Bodo Glimt, but are crushed and humiliated for all 90 minutes in a small stadium north of the Arctic Circle, with 400 Romanistas heroes left like this, stunned and in the cold, after a long trip.
A very heavy defeat for the immediate future, starting from Sunday, the clashes with Napoli, Cagliari and Milan are the crossroads of this first part of the Mourinho era. We play a lot for the rest of the season, and we are only in October! If with Juve we lost due to negative episodes but also due to lack of sharpness, today the concern is much greater.
The team has lost the plot but above all that desire and determination seen in the first games. It is a team that has returned to be moody and unreliable resembling the one seen so many times last year. Also because maybe it is the same squad? It is certainly not Mourinho’s squad. From Norway at least we return with a certainty.
A line has been drawn, the team is made up of 13 players, the others can be go elsewhere if possible. The coach reiterated this once again. The possibility given to these 7/8 reserves was the last degree of appeal, unavoidable also due to the need to rest the others. Mourinho did not trust them, but he decided to field them hopefully in a positive response. A total disaster, yes, but even with the changes in the second half we went even worse. Reason for this great concern.
In the meantime, we now know that it will no longer be necessary to ask the coach why the various Reynolds, Villar, Mayoral, Diawara and Kumbulla are never used even when the others are run out of steam. Unless of injuries, it is likely that we will never see them on the pitch again, waiting for the January transfer market. Forward with these 13 players already for Sunday’s difficult challenge with the Neapolitans, at this point it is a must, apart from the result, to get the performance eto give us back respect for this shirt.