Totti turned 35 yesterday, a birthday which is all too alarmingly close to corpopimp Dhruv's (I know you're secretly reading this while you wrap up work and get ready to head home...but don't. 1:30am is no time to be reading blogs). This year at Roma started with a hotly publicized cold-war between Luis Enrique and Totti, and it wasn't without any latent relief that I wondered if finally Pupone could take the back seat with a tactical shuffle that reduced the total and utter dependence on him. 4 games into the season and Enrique's already changed his formation to funnel solely around Totti pulling strings from behind the forwards. Funnily enough, the same happened in the first few Spalletti years, with Totti getting relegated more often, and the parallels with Del Piero's simultaneous decline from Juve godheadness being all too obvious. But the last 2 seasons had regressed back to the Tottiphilia that has plagued (in a way that is too enjoyable to really treat...like a sweet smelling rash that also looks kinda badass..like the red dragon on my..never mind) Roma for too long to possibly get over easily. Totti is the greatest Trequartista I have ever seen, but he played as a striker (sometimes lone!!!) for the past 3 seasons - Enrique's acquisitions and more pondering possession play meant a Totti-ic striker was theoretically out. But they played Parma last Saturday as 3-4-3 with a Trequartista...a formation that couldn't be more made for Totti if it dressed in a swimsuit and hosted TV Shows.
The game itself was quite beautiful, Enrique shamelessly showed Roma the notes he's been stealing from Pep's locker, and it even worked..sorta... (in the twisted way I once said Barca's play worked in their UCL loss to Inter 2 yrs back). De Rossi was incredible again (finally), Osvaldo and Rosi were both excellent, rest were safe but not toe-curling (Self TWSS). Formation strategy yadayada Heinze piece of shit yadayada huh-who-what-keeper yadayada. So anyway, point is Totti is back and seems to be here to stay for this season..AGAIN... and I just cant get myself to enjoy yet another season watching him play, with the creepy gong in my head accentuating the impending withdrawal at Roma once he hangs up his dentures and leaves (although its a lot less creepy if I play the Streetfighter game soundtrack in my head while the gong sounds). They went into rehab with Spalletti early on, the way Juve said no to Del. But while Juve have forgotten him completely, Roma have relapsed again. but then it just feels so good....
Almost time for Che against Chelsea, and I'm going to go out on a limb and put myself out there, not sit on the fence, but bravely predict...that Valencia will play the better football and pummel blue monkeys for 90mins...as for the result itself, lets see........could go either way, can't really say, both teams are great and YEA RITE. Chelsea to win 2-1 :(
Mata to score, and commentator to say "well wouldn't you know it...it just had to happen didn't it..."
The game itself was quite beautiful, Enrique shamelessly showed Roma the notes he's been stealing from Pep's locker, and it even worked..sorta... (in the twisted way I once said Barca's play worked in their UCL loss to Inter 2 yrs back). De Rossi was incredible again (finally), Osvaldo and Rosi were both excellent, rest were safe but not toe-curling (Self TWSS). Formation strategy yadayada Heinze piece of shit yadayada huh-who-what-keeper yadayada. So anyway, point is Totti is back and seems to be here to stay for this season..AGAIN... and I just cant get myself to enjoy yet another season watching him play, with the creepy gong in my head accentuating the impending withdrawal at Roma once he hangs up his dentures and leaves (although its a lot less creepy if I play the Streetfighter game soundtrack in my head while the gong sounds). They went into rehab with Spalletti early on, the way Juve said no to Del. But while Juve have forgotten him completely, Roma have relapsed again. but then it just feels so good....
Almost time for Che against Chelsea, and I'm going to go out on a limb and put myself out there, not sit on the fence, but bravely predict...that Valencia will play the better football and pummel blue monkeys for 90mins...as for the result itself, lets see........could go either way, can't really say, both teams are great and YEA RITE. Chelsea to win 2-1 :(
Mata to score, and commentator to say "well wouldn't you know it...it just had to happen didn't it..."
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