No, it wasn’t bachelors versus marrieds. Although at first glance, those who don’t know the tortuous history of Udinese-Roma might have thought so. It was enough to go to any site with live results and lineups. Players who play, then leave, then come back: identity crisis stuff for those who don’t know how to delve into the intricacies of the rules. Roma won at the last second after making eight substitutions: impossible, but only in appearance. Because Udinese-Roma, which resumed yesterday exactly from the moment the game was interrupted due to the illness that struck Ndicka on April 14th, was an impeccable match from a regulatory point of view. Whether the regulation represents perfection and fairness is another matter.
«The live commentary of Udinese-Roma»
But let’s go in order and start again from the match of last April 14th. One by one, Ndicka gives everyone a scare and the match is rightly abandoned. Then controversies of various kinds break out, from the president of Lazio Lotito who criticizes the decision to stop due to a ‘code yellow’ illness, to Roma themselves, who are not exactly enthusiastic about having to return to Udine to play for twenty minutes in the midst of a tour de force between the championship and the Europa League.
Cannavaro without two key players
Even with some limitations set by the regulations, coaches can change everything. Without getting into the tedium of bureaucracy, just mention the probably most important point: “The players who took to the pitch and were replaced during the first match cannot be fielded again”. A problem especially for Udinese, who just a minute before the suspension had released two important players in Ehizibue and Kamara. A sort of cyanide chocolate from Cioffi, sacked after the knockout in Verona, to his successor Fabio Cannavaro, who made his debut against Roma without being able to field them. The Friulian coach then proposed the team that was on the field at the time of the interruption.
Llorente, the man who played twice
De Rossi, on the other hand, has changed a lot, proposing five new players (changes which on the sites are equated with replacements, hence the confusion) and bringing in three more during the course of the work. But the paradox, which smacks of mockery for Udinese, is the manager’s play between the folds of the regulation. In the 88th minute Smalling suffered a groin problem and was replaced by Llorente, the Spaniard who had played 71′ on 14 April but was placed on the bench in the remainder of the match. The rest is history, with twenty-six minutes played at supersonic speed at the end of which Roma prevailed. However, Real Madrid had done better 19 years ago. He only had 6′ available to beat Real Sociedad (the match had been interrupted due to a bomb threat), but he succeeded: ready, restart, go. After all, for people like Ronaldo the Phenomenon, Zidane (who scored the winning penalty) and Raul, six minutes were more than enough.
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– 2024-05-13 01:31:27
