Roma – Athletic, Getty Images 06 March 2025, 23:57

Interesting stories are in some places to be twisted by this updated European Cup format, and still recently it could not be that the teams that intersect among themselves on a group (now-mainly) round of competitions, then met on the first full-fledged playoff. However, Italian Roma still overcame a border in the form of a Portuguese port, after which she received a kind of “gift” in the form of Basque athletics already in the 1/8 finals of the competition.

However, during the time of Ivan Yurich, the wolves were headed with “lions” on their own field, and in that meeting the ball of Ukrainian striker Artem Dovbik did not help the owners of the Olympico stadium to keep the victory (1: 1) in general not too good at the beginning of the season. But those days were left behind, and now Roma resisted the athlete with Claudio Raniere, headed by his head and away from his shoulders.

The expectations of this match, as from one of the central posters, were quite high, but partly the teams did not justify them. A rather calm beginning only in single attacks managed to tint a little in brighter shades, and to some extent even succeeded in Artem Dovbik. The Ukrainian in the center of another’s penalty area fell beautifully in the middle of the first half, when it would be nice to punch at the goal from a favorable position.

However, at the moment of injury, the central defender of Atletica Vivian was suffered, so the guardian Dovbik still breathed from one guardian, after which he had to resist Parees. In the meantime, his best moment in this game was waste and Paulo Dibal, under the veil of the first half, kissed the crossbar with a blow from the boundaries of other people’s possessions.

If you leave the sannady shortly before the break by the left rack, the athlete in the first half did not suggest anything interesting at all. However, Roma was not too much marked by activity, so we were still in front of us to so that in the first part of the duel, the teams will be able to soak the score. Instead, they hammered immediately after the game was restored. Initially, the athlete used the standard, and the same paredes to the far from the Injami Williams submit the corner from the right flank.

And within a few attacks, she brought one of her attacks and Roma, when he again scored Angelin’s goal, who assigned a shot to the penalty center from the right flank. In these episodes, Dovbik was not involved, as in many endings of other attacks as well, so it was eventually replaced by Schomerodov. And, oddly enough, again the rotation of the forwards worked in Reniere.

However, at first, the athlete made a very significant gift to the opponents in the form of the removal of Central Defender of Alvarez for foul on the second yellow against Shomarodov on the right flank, after which the Uzbekistan striker in the free from two main “lions” of the center of the penalty area in the last seconds of compensated time. So, the “wolves” of the attackers are only hammered from replacement. The story personally for these players, but the result gives.

The match between the Basque athlete and the Italian Roma will take place on March 13.

Roma – Athletic 2: 1
Goals: Angelino, 56, Shomodov, 90+4 – Paradez, 50

Roma: Sville – Chelik, Manchini, Ndika – Rensh (Salamacars, 61), Pisil (Kona, 77), Kistante, Anhelyino – Dibala (Sule, 72), Baldana (El Shaaravi, 60) – Dovbik (Shomrodov, 71).

Athletic: Aggriosabal – de Marcos, Vivian (Paradez, 23), Alvarez, Berchyce – Galarret, Hauregisar (Prados, 63) – I. Williams, Gomes (Vesga, 77), N. Williams (Berenger, 77) – Sannady (Gususeta, 63).

Warning: Shomodov – Alvarez, Hauregisar, Sannady

In the 85th minute, Erya Alvarez (Athletic) (second warning) was removed.