Conference League, Roma-Vitesse 1-1: goals from Wittek and Abraham

The semi-final of the Champions in 2018, that of the Europa League in 2021, at least the quarter-finals of the Conference in 2022: Roma, from Di Francesco to Mourinho, passing through Fonseca, once again give themselves a spring of direct clashes in the European context. This time, however, with so much effort and suffering: at the Olimpico, in fact, he ends 1-1 against Vitesse in the return of the second round of the third continental cup and Tammy Abraham thinks about saving the Giallorossi at the last second. Goal number 21 in the first year in the Giallorossi for him, like Montella and Batistuta, the only real essential player for Mourinho.

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His header under the South in the 90th minute, after an assist from Karsdorp, sent Roma to the quarterfinals at the end of a game in which Vitesse played better. The Dutch defend, wait, put to sleep the match, and half an hour from the end they take the lead with a splendid left footed shot from the edge of the area, on an assist from Dasa, from Wittek. The shot for Rui Patricio is unstoppable, Roma sees (three days before the derby) the specter of extra time and an elimination that seemed unthinkable at the time of the draw and instead, once again, Abraham arrives to solve everything. God save Tammy, for Mourinho and for all the forty thousand at the Olimpico who, at times, boo the team and the players (Zaniolo, Veretout and Maitland-Niles) at the moment of the changes, but then rejoice because the European adventure can continue.

THE OWNERS

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And to think that Mou, just as he said on the eve, plays practically all the big names. There are no Mancini and Oliveira, disqualified, Karsdorp and Zalewski rest on the flanks (in their place Maitland and Vina) and, in the middle of the field, Cristante rifiata, with Veretout together with Mkhitaryan and Pellegrini. That for Roma it would have been a complicated evening is immediately obvious: the Giallorossi miss many balls in support, the Vitesse after 3 ‘touches the goal on a free-kick beaten by Grbic and begins to believe in the enterprise when Rome goes to a small trot. Balls for Abraham and Zaniolo arrive few, even fewer shots (in the first half just a conclusion by Veretout just wide) and in the second half the script does not change until 62 ‘: Pellegrini loses the ball, ball to Dasa who serves Wittek and super goals under the away sector where the 800 Vitesse fans are accommodated.

SUPER TAMMY

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A few moments of tension (they try to break through the stewards’ cordon), then everything returns to normal and we return to thinking about the pitch: Mourinho inserts El Shaarawy and Felix, in the stands (including Totti) we suffer, but the goal does not seem to arrive because Rome hits the Vitesse wall. Extra time seems inevitable until Abraham’s goal that sends Roma to the quarter-finals. It ends with the Olimpico celebrating and thinking about the next three days: tomorrow there is the European draw, Sunday the derby.