Abraham, in the first year better than Dzeko and Voeller: with Sampdoria he aims at Pruzzo – As Roma football news – Interviews, photos and videos

Some players explode right away, others are diesels that take time to fuel. As for goals, Abraham (12) it took 24 games to overcome the first Dzeko Romanist (10), distant relative of the one who then made fire and flames from the following year until the end of his adventure in Trigoria. Montella and Batistuta they proved instead to be another level, two pure center forwards, with a flair for 21 goals each in their first year with the Giallorossi. Talent in recent seasons has not lacked a Rome, also thinking about players like Vucinic and Borriello, as well as the wrong market choices (Schick or Iturbe), which led to little wins. Until now.

In the year of the championship 2000/01, Roma had an attacking trio that many would envy. If not at all. Vincenzo Montella and Gabriel Omar Batistuta they were part of that team that, to the sound of goals, reached the end of a very tough championship. Goals that, at the end of the season, were 21 for the ‘lion king’. The Argentine, bought by Fiorentina in the summer, scored 20 centers in 28 appearances in Serie A (and 1 in the Uefa Cup), demonstrating that the substantial investment made by Sensi was decidedly targeted. The same figure that Montella reached on his arrival in Rome in 1999: 18 goals in Serie A and 3 in the Uefa Cup, but far from the Scudetto.

On the bottom step of this ‘top 3’, is Marco Borriello square. The former Milan scored 17 goals (11 in Serie A, 4 in the Champions League and 2 in the Italian Cup) and immediately proved to be an excellent addition to a team that came from a lost league, a few months earlier, to the last breath against Mourinho’s Inter. One step away from the podium is Roberto Pruzzo, one who with Roma came close to touching the sky with a finger in the Champions League final. The Ligurian realized 14 goals in 35 appearances in 1978/79, when he began to lay the foundations for the Scudetto and the Italian Cup in the following years. Not surprisingly, he appears behind Francesco Totti for the number of goals scored: 138 in 315 appearances. Here, behind these ‘sacred monsters’ of the Giallorossi history, he places himself Tammy Abraham, one step away from the podium, with her 12 goals seasonal that, with a bit of luck (and precision), could have been much more. The Englishman put on the scoresheet 6 goals in the league and 6 in the conference, a figure that is also the envy of the first Dzeko (only 10 goals in 2015/16), that of the mistake against Palermo (many still remember him) who now appears in third place among Roma’s ‘all time’ scorers, with 119 goals in 260 appearances. After the first few releases, in which the former Chelsea was unable to unblock himself, the fear (or perhaps the hope) was precisely that of finding himself in front of an Edin 2.0, a situation that for now seems to be averted.

Five goals in 15 appearances are not many. They become so when Luca Toni, who arrived in January 2010, manages to integrate to the point of contributing to Roma’s comeback towards the Scudetto, ideally lost against Cassano and Pazzini’s Sampdoria. He was also on that team Mirko Vucinic, one who, with the number 9 on his shoulders, scored the difficult goals and missed the easy ones. In his first year in the Giallorossi, between various injuries, there were only 3 goals of the season: 2 in Serie A and 1 in the Champions League, in the first leg against Manchester United, won 2-1 at the Olimpico. And then lost in the return with a tennis score. He flew under the south to the sound of goals Rudi Voeller, in a time when football was different from that of today, in those 80s that made Roma great at their beginning, making the youngest ones forget the nickname of ‘rometta’. The ‘flying German’ stung only 5 times in his first year with the yellow and red colors, before going on to make another 40 between 1989 and 1992.

Flying under the south. Waiting for Abraham to follow the same trail.