THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

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You're such a kind, helpful bunch.

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http://www.teamtalk.com/premier-league/ ... Fiorentina

Some interesting comments on the bottom of that piece - though no doubt telling us as much about the spupidity of the posters as anything else.

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Fenerbahce fans last night:

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@OfficialASRoma released this video with this message. First graphic that appears of Totti is mine (although ive never used RomaGram, or instagram, really. Someone musta put it there).

@OfficialASRoma: 20 years of Francesco Totti in Serie A: RomaGram users pay tribute to him with their photos!
http://youtu.be/TZDeSyItvnk #ASR #20annidiTotti

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Where is everyone? We all too nervous about the derby to post?

Roma-Lazio, i convocati. Out Balzaretti
/ domenica 7 aprile 2013 12:48

Aurelio Andreazzoli ha diramato la lista dei giocatori che prenderanno parte alla sfida che la Prima Squadra disputerà domani allo Stadio Olimpico.

Lista convocati A.S. Roma:
BRADLEY
BURDISSO
CASTAN
DESTRO
DE ROSSI
DODO’
FLORENZI
GOICOECHEA
LAMELA
LOBONT
LOPEZ
LUCCA
MARQUINHO
MARQUINHOS
PERROTTA
PJANIC
ROMAGNOLI
STEKELENBURG
TACHTSIDIS
TADDEI
TOROSIDIS
TOTTI

[Lupa]

The media ban doesn't apply to fans too? (kidding)

Too annoyed that the game was moved to Monday.

[RomaShield27]

Yeh, I dunno why it was moved to the Monday. I mean, I get that Lazio were playing in the EL on Thursday, but so what, it should be on the last available slot of the weekend, on Sunday evening. If its only a three day turnaround, tough shit, thats the disadvantage of playing European football.

Latest talk out of the camp says we're switching to a four-man defence, although we have heard that before. Burdisso will likely miss out if thats the case, and he hasn't been on great form lately. I've been advocating a switch to a back four for a while now as I think its more secure and sets us up better, with DDR able to float in front of the back two. Marquinho may come under some pressure at left-back up against Candreva or Lulic, so midfield will have to help him out. Up top just Lamela in support of Totti.

Roma-Lazio: probabili formazioni
/ lunedì 8 aprile 2013 13:53

(Redazione ForzaRoma.info) Poco più di sei ore all’inizio del derby Roma-Lazio, che per la prima volta nella storia va in scena di lunedì. La squadra giallorossa vuole interrompere la striscia negativa di tre sconfitte consecutive.Mister Andreazzoli deve sciogliere gli ultimi dubbi di formazione. Il primo riguarda la scelta di passare dalla difesa a tre a quella quattro, con la conseguente esclusione di Burdisso. Il secondo invece è il ballottaggio tra Florenzi e Marquinho sulla fascia sinistra qualora si scelga il 3-5-2 come modulo di partenza. In attacco il tandem Totti-Lamela.

Probabili formazioni Roma-Lazio (lunedì, ore 20.45)
Roma (4-2-3-1): Stekelenburg; Torosidis, Marquinhos, Castan, Marquinho; De Rossi, Bradley; Lamela, Pjanic, Florenzi; Totti.
Lazio (4-1-4-1): Marchetti; Gonzalez, Biava, Cana, Radu; Ledesma; Candreva, Hernanes, Onazi, Lulic; Klose.

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Roma-Lazio, le probabili formazioni dei quotidiani:

CORRIERE DELLO SPORT
Stekelenburg; Marquinhos, Burdisso, Casta; Torosidis, Bradley, De Rossi, Pjanic, Florenzi (Marquinho); Totti, Lamela

IL MESSAGGERO
Stekelenburg; Torosidis, Marquinhos, Castan, Marquinho; Bradley, De Rossi, Florenzi, Lamela, Pjanic, Totti

GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT
Stekelenburg; Torosidis, Marquinhos, Castan, Marquinho; Bradley, De Rossi, Florenzi, Lamela, Pjanic, Totti

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Roma-Lazio Preview
/ 06 Apr 2013 Anthony Wright

The moment is finally almost upon us - it's time for the Rome derby. After months of Laziali lording it over their Giallorossi rivals (after all, they won the first derby of the season and were in the race for the Champions League places until recently), Roma and Lazio are going into the stracittadina with a great deal at stake.

With only eight games of the season left, the chances of Champions League football next year are slim for both teams, but the Europa League spots are still up for grabs. The game also offers a chance for Roma to move above Lazio in the table (if they win with a better score than 3-2), while Aurelio Andreazzoli can also directly gauge himself against Vladimir Petkovic ahead of a possible Coppa Italia final meeting.

Roma and Lazio have met 81 times before with Roma as the nominal home side (68 times in Serie A, nine in the Coppa Italia, once in the Divisione Nazionale and three times in the war time championships), with Roma winning 31 times and losing 17. Until last season, the Biancocelesti had not won 'away' since a 1998 cup clash, but have now won the last three games in a row against Roma.

Last week against Palermo, Roma had six players one yellow card away from suspension - Pablo Osvaldo and Ivan Piris both subsequently picked up bookings and will be banned for the derby. Andreazzoli has few injury problems to worry about though, as Marquinhos will - in all likelihood - retake his place in the back three. The main concern is Federico Balzaretti, who has been suffering from flu this week and trained separately on Saturday. Meanwhile, the coach tried out a 3-5-2 formation in training, with Vasilis Torosidis and Alessandro Florenzi on the flanks in midfield.

Roma squad: Michael Bradley, Nicolas Burdisso, Leandro Castan, Mattia Destro, Daniele De Rossi, Dodo, Alessandro Florenzi, Mauro Goicoechea, Erik Lamela, Bogdan Lobont, Nico Lopez, Jonatan Lucca, Marquinho, Marquinhos, Simone Perrotta, Miralem Pjanic, Alessio Romagnoli, Maarten Stekelenburg, Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Rodrigo Taddei, Vasilis Torosidis, Francesco Totti.

Injured: Federico Balzaretti.

Suspended: Pablo Osvaldo (1 game), Ivan Piris (1 game).

Diffidati: Federico Balzaretti, Mattia Destro, Nicolas Burdisso, Alessandro Florenzi.

Lazio squad: Federico Marchetti, Albano Bizzarri, Thomas Strakosha, Giuseppe Biava, Stefan Radu, Michael Ciani, Lorik Cana, Marius Stankevicius, Cristian Ledesma, Ogenyi Onazi, Stefano Mauri, Ederson, Antonio Candreva, Nenad Lulic, Alvaro Gonzalez, Hernanes, Luca Crecco, Sergio Floccari, Libor Kozak, Louis Saha, Antonio Rozzi, Miroslav Klose.

Injured: Abdoulay Konko, Bruno Pereirinha, Andre Dias, Cristian Brocchi.

Suspended: None.

Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Bergamo).



Roma-Lazio (last decade):
2011/12 - Lost 1-2 (Borini)
2010/11 - Won 2-0 (Totti 2 (1 pen))
2010/11 - Won 2-1 (Borriello (pen), Simplicio) (Coppa Italia)
2009/10 - Won 1-0 (Cassetti)
2008/09 - Won 1-0 (Baptista)
2007/08 - Won 3-2 (Vucinic, Mancini, Perrotta)
2006/07 - Drew 0-0
2005/06 - Drew 1-1 (Totti)
2004/05 - Drew 0-0
2003/04 - Won 2-0 (Mancini, Emerson)
2002/03 - Won 1-0 (Montella) (Coppa Italia)
2002/03 - Drew 1-1 (Cassano

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FORMAZIONI UFFICIALI

ROMA (4-3-1-2): Stekelenburg; Torosidis, Marquinhos, Castan, Marquinho; Bradley, De Rossi, Florenzi; Pjanic; Lamela, Totti


LAZIO: Marchetti; Gonzalez, Biava, Cana, Radu; Ledesma; Candreva, Hernanes, Mauri, Lulic; Klose.


Arbitro: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni (sez. Bergamo).
Assistenti: Stefani, Faverani.
Quarto Uomo: Niccolai.
Assistenti addizionali: Romeo, Russo.

[DCGweez]

Looks to me like we're playing for a point and all the Roma boys are in.

Daje roma, so finiti i tempi cupi!

[RomaShield27]

So what was everyone's thoughts on the derby display? A disappointing enough performance, I thought. We were lacklustre and found it hard to create anything or move the ball forward with any purpose. A lot of that was down to the way the midfield was set-up, with both DDR and Bradley as the two deep-lying midfielders, neither of whom are to creative or clever with the ball at their feet. Pjanic at trequartista was too far forward to get on the ball and was easily marked out of it by the Lazio midfield, I thought we should have moved him deeper alongside either DDR or Bradley sooner. Our full-backs were also pretty ineffectual throughout I thought, although it was hard for them as they were pretty isolated out wide at times. And our front two up top provided no movement or runs in behind, which was not exactly unexpected, so I'd like to know exactly what the game plan was.

It was disappointing that it took a few incidents on Lazio's part to really get us going and play with any sort of threat or purpose – Hernanes missed peno, our peno, and their red card. We should have been fired up already but we needed a spur to finally get us going. Its a pity we didn't kick on and get the win then, at that stage, but I never really felt we put them under any serious pressure from good attacking play and it was more a case of looking for second penalty or threatening from a set-piece, which was disappointing. Totti was unable to get on the ball in good positions and not able to exert his usual brilliant influence, Pjanic was under a lot of pressure and trying to do too much, Destro couldn't hold onto the ball, Lamela was off in the clouds, we'd little support on the wings (Dodo is very bad), and no ideas. A pity, but we really should have got all three points.

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LE PAGELLE DEI QUOTIDIANI: http://www.forzaroma.info/2013/04/09/ro ... ntu/209894

Colly's thoughts on BR here: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1597 ... -stalemate

Antonello Venditti: 'Yesterday seemed like a Serie B game. I don't recognise this AS Roma, a team without soul."

Pics of crowd trouble below. Looks like down along by the river. They all look like Lazio fans just having running battles with the police, just dumb fucking idiots doing it for the sake of doing it. I presume this isnt where the Roma fans were stabbed. This shit is annoying. I've visited a few Irish and UK sites this morning to look for any reports of the Derby, but all you see is reports of the crowd trouble before the game.

http://www.repubblica.it/sport/2013/04/ ... =HRER3-1#1

This says the four ultras (doesnt say which side i dont think) arrested yesterdat were punished with Daspo (laws against hooliganism), and banned for attending games for five years:

http://www.forzaroma.info/2013/04/09/sc ... ati/210023

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http://www.forzaroma.info/2013/04/09/le ... tte/210256
http://www.football-italia.net/32881/no ... me-derbies

No more posticipo kick-off times for the Roma derby, it looks like. Can't say this is really a surprise. In fact I don't know why it wasnt a ruling sooner.

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Nice piece by @iPrimaPunta on, em, rebuilding (again):

http://maledettaprimavera.net/2013/04/0 ... ing-again/

[forzaitalia]

Without tempting fate, would the Coppa final still be at night? Even if the date of it is changed.

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Good question. There's actually a paragraph about just that at the end of the ForzaRoma piece. The Prefect of Rome is adamant that "there will never again be a Rome derby in the evening", but RAI, who have the Coppa's broadcasting rights, have a clause with the Lega Calcio saying that it has to be an evening game and the 'big', main match. So who knows what will happen. If we beat Inter.

Adesso il timore va alla finale di Coppa Italia: si gioca, all’Olimpico, il 26 maggio (ore 21). La Lazio si è già qualificata, la Roma ha battuto 2-1 l’Inter e ora deve giocare il ritorno a San Siro. Un altro derby sarebbe ad altissismo rischio. Ma di pomeriggio non si può giocare: la Rai ha una clausola con la Lega di A, le stesse pay tv per motivi di ascolto pretendono che i big match siano di sera, e magari “spalmati” su più giorni. E allora? Allora c’è una sola cosa da fare: preparare il derby di Coppa Italia (se sarà derby) nel migliore dei modi.

[DCGweez]

The Prefect?

Is Lohannes still alive?

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Whats wrong with Prefect? That is his official title, no? Il Prefetto di Roma. Not sure what exactly he does or how he's different from the Mayor (Allemano).

This is for Colly. Tweeted by @OfficialASRoma a few hours ago (#soccerex)

[DCGweez]

http://laromasiamonoi.tumblr.com/

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Still, going to the Derby was thoroughly enjoyable.

Atmosphere pre-match was cracking, though I thought the Curva Sud was fairly subdued through most of the game, which was perfectly understandable with Roma being shite both during the game and over the course of the season.

Seing Totti scoring in a Derby in front of the Curva Sud is certainly something that'll live long in the memory.