Roma went for this victory during the 32nd day of Serie A. La Louve relied on a goal from Cristante in the final minute of added time to win 2-1 on the pitch. Udinese, in a meeting which had been largely disputed before it was stopped following Evan Ndicka’s discomfort. The capital club remains 5th and keeps its distance from its closest pursuer, Atalanta, to be virtually qualified for the Champions League next season. Despite this performance, Daniele De Rossi struggled to hide his anger after the match. The coach who has succeeded in everything since his arrival on the bench railed against the schedule. While his team is due to play the semi-final of the Europa League against Bayer next Thursday, the Italian league has refused to bring forward the league match scheduled against Naples.
“We have difficult matches and we felt we had the duty and the right to ask for help for the match against Leverkusen. And we were refused it, which made us quite angry. We will play the Bundesliga champion, undefeated, with one less day of rest. I think it’s a unique precedent in Italy that a team is not helped in this sense.deplores the former midfielder. “Maybe it awakened something in us, and karma sometimes comes back with juicy gifts.” In France for example, the LFP did not hesitate to modify the calendar to allow teams still qualified in Europe to have greater margin of rest.
