After losing three consecutive matches at home for the first time since 2011, Gian Piero Gasperini and Roma hit the road for their Matchday 8 fixture against 11th-place Sassuolo, winners of two of their past
three matches. With all eyes fixed on Gasperini’s struggling attack, the pressure will be on Roma’s forwards (particularly their strikers) to lift the club out of its current attacking malaise.
Despite boasting one of the game’s keenest attacking minds, Roma’s offense has sputtered under Gasperini, scoring only seven goals in their first seven league matches. And while that makes for an easy-to-calculate goals per game average, it leaves Roma little margin for error. When you can only bank on one goal per match, everything else has to go according to plan—an errant pass here, a late tackle there, or simple indiscretion from the referee can make the difference between victory and defeat.
Gasperini’s latest lineup is in, so let’s see if they snap out of this funk an emerge with a decisive victory.
