Abraham and Dybala on target as Roma prevail over Empoli
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nPAter Empoli scored an equaliser through midfielder Bandinelli, who headed home in the 43rd minute from a Stojanovic cross, Abraham fired home the winner in the 71st minute. He latched onto a Dybala pass inside the six-yard box to earn Roma all three points
Tammy Abraham struck the decisive goal in Roma’s 2-1 win at empoli on Monday which put them a point behind a trio of sides leading the way in Italian League.
both teams hit the woodwork numerous times, while Roma missed a penalty and an empoli player was sent off late on.
Roma are fith but just behind Napoli, Atalanta and AC Milan ater Abraham forced home Paulo dybala’s cross from close range in the 71st minute.
The impressive dybala had opened the scoring for the away side, who came into Monday’s match off the back of two bad defeats at the hands of fourth-placed Udinese and Ludogorets, in the 17th minute with a beautifully guided shot ater having already hit the post.
“We know it was going to be tough, coming into this we lost two games before so we needed this for our confidence. but we’re happy to win,” Abraham told Sky Sport Italia.
“I need to keep learning and improving. I’m coming off the back of an injury so I’m still getting my fitness back a litle bit but I’m happy to score and help the team as much as possible.”
Jose Mourinho’s side were looking at another poor result two minutes before the break when Filippo bandinelli reacted brilliantly to bad Roma defending by guiding home a header from Petar Stojanovic’s cross.
A draw would not have flatered empoli who struck the woodwork through Martin Satriano and Jean-daniel Akpa Akpro and created opportunities ater Akpa Akpro was sent off in the final few minutes.
but Abraham’s second goal of the season was just enough to seal the three points, with Lorenzo Pellegrini also smacking a penalty off the bar with 10 minutes remaining.
Romahosthjkintheeuropaleagueonthursday before travelling to in-form Atalanta in their final match before this month’s international break.
STRUGGLERS MONZA SACK COACH STROPPA: Monza have sacked coach giovanni Stroppa, the Italian League club announced on Tuesday ater a poor start to their first Serie A season let them botom of the table.
In a statement, Monza said the club’s former youth team coach Raffaele Palladino would take charge of the team.
Palladino’s first match in charge will be against his former team Juventus. Palladino played more than 50 matches for Juventus before leaving the club for genoa in 2008.
The club has not specified if youth team coach Palladino will remain in charge on a permanent basis or — as Italian media reports — he will serve as a caretaker coach.
Stroppa took Monza up to Italian League for the first time in their history but just one point from their opening six games in the top flight wasn’t enough for owner, former Italian prime minister Silvio berlusconi.
Monza bought an almost entire new team ater being promoted via the play-offs, signing players with extensive experience in the top division like Andrea Ranocchia, Stefano Sensi, Mateo Pessina and Alessio Cragno.
Monza were still in the third tier when media tycoon berlusconi bought the club in 2018 for a reported three millions euros ($3.4 million).
Under his ownership AC Milan became one of the titans of european football, winning five european Cups and eight Italian League titles over more than three decades.
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Italian League ater bologna fired Sinisa Mihajlovic last week and replaced him with Thiago Mota.
MILAN INVESTOR DROPS EFFORTS To Freeze CLUB SALE IN ITALIAN COURT: blue Skye Financial Partners, a minority investor in Italian soccer champions AC Milan, have dropped efforts in an Italian court to try to suspend the 1.2 billion euro ($1.20 billion) sale of the club, legal sources said on Tuesday.
earlierthismonthusprivateequityfundredbird Capital Partners announced it had closed a deal to buy AC Milan from US fund elliot.
blue Skye, which held an indirect stake of about 4% in AC Milan, had filed a petition with a Milan court for a precautionary halt to the sale and a hearing was conducted on Tuesday.
The request was dropped as the sale of the club has now been concluded, the sources said. However, blue Skye is still challenging the deal in other jurisdictions.
blue Skye had accused elliot of violating its rights by engaging in “behind closed doors” talks to clinch a sale of the seven-time european champions.
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