Dribble Diaries

Struggling Serie A heavyweights Roma will be able to celebrate late into the night in the Eternal City after Claudio Ranieri's side defeated bitter rivals Lazio 2-0. With Lazio aiming for a top-four finish and Champions League football in 2025-26, Roma's contrasting season, which saw them end in the bottom half of the standings heading into tonight's match, provided plenty of motivation in the Italian city. Roma would send their fans home pleased from Stadio Olimpico despite frequently being second-best during 90 minutes of play, with hometown hero Lorenzo Pellegrini breaking the deadlock in the ninth minute. Lazio's early rushes forward before and after the goal couldn't keep the Biancocelesti from falling down 2-0 less than 10 minutes later, when Belgian international Alexis Saelemaekers compounded the deficit with a close-range strike. The former Anderlecht academy sensation converted despite having his initial effort saved after Roma broke away from the halfwa...

Real Betis officials have identified AS Roma star Enzo Le Fée as a top January transfer target. That is according to transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, who provided an update on the issue Tuesday. Amid little short of a personnel crisis in Manuel Pellegrini's midfield, Betis have long sought reinforcements in the middle of the park for the second half of the season. Over the past week, Arthur Melo, a Juventus exile, has been identified as the most likely candidate to join the Estadio Benito Villamarín. As previously stated, if the newest news from Tuesday is to be believed, a new challenger appears to have solidly established himself as a candidate to join Real Betis' midfield. According to Fabrizio Romano, citing Filippo Biafora, the Frenchman's debut season in Serie A has been challenging thus far. 'Real Betis has a genuine interest in signing Enzo Le Fée from AS Roma in January. Any such agreement would be likely to take the shape of a loan.

Claudio Ranieri returns to Roma amid criticism of the club's ownership following Ivan Juric's catastrophic 53-day tenure. "Welcome home" was the message from the Romanisti when Claudio Ranieri arrived at the Fulvio Bernardini training complex on Thursday afternoon to begin his third term as manager of his boyhood club. The man from Testaccio, a district in the south of the city that was AS Roma's original home before 1940, is still a symbol in the yellow and red halves (or three-quarters) of the Italian capital. The 73-year-old is seen as a true expression of the Romanismo identity that the club values and has been sorely lacking since Daniele de Rossi's hasty dismissal in September, which sparked the fanbase's wrath against the American ownership in the months that followed. "Ranieri-Ter," as the Italian media has dubbed the third edition of this inter-Roman love affair, exists not as a result of any major sporting strategy on the part of the c...

Here are five reasons you can't afford to miss this weekend's Serie A games. Another hard challenge for Napoli. Since their opening-day tragedy, league leaders Napoli have rapidly recovered and scored stunning wins over Juventus, Milan (both away from home), and Bologna. But another extremely severe test of their talents comes this Saturday when they face Atalanta, who are on a seven-game unbeaten streak heading into this intriguing match in Campania. A winner has often been provided recently, and there has only been one tie in the last 18 games between these teams, a 2-2 thriller in Naples in 2019. Napoli, the only side with a perfect home record this season, has won four of the last five league games against La Dea, albeit they did lose 3-0 at home in their most recent match in March. Rafael Leão's Milan Crossroads Ahead of Milan's trip to Monza on Saturday night, La Gazzetta dello Sport published an interesting update on the situation surrounding winger Rafael Leão,...

With the national teams' vacation ended, Serie A has resumed play, bringing with it a slew of instances that have sparked heated debate. Refereeing errors are become the norm in the Italian league, with numerous occurrences analyzed and disputed by both fans and club officials. In this regard, the website Superscommesse.it updates its own personal rating without refereeing errors, taking into consideration the oversights and incidents that can have an impact on the results and places of Italy's top twenty clubs. At the end of the first phase of Serie A, Roma emerges as the most penalized team, having undergone two adverse moments that cost it four points less than it should have received based on its performance on the field. On the other hand, Monza and Genoa have profited from a favorable episode, resulting in one point less in the 'virtual' ranking than the official one.