The late Sunday night kick-off has rarely disappointed this season in Serie A, and this was the case for Romas clash with Inter at the Stadio Olimpico.
Last year, both were fighting for the final two Champions League spots, this season their respective seasons have been oceans apart. Roma are stuttering near mid-table, desperate to start a charge into the European spots, whilst Inter are trying to keep pace with record-breaking Juventus and fashion anything resembling a title race.
With so much at stake for very different reasons, this tie was always going to be a cracker, and it didnt disappoint. Lets have a look at the highlights and analyse the defining moments from the match.
Full Backs Fully Terrible
In the first half, both teams engaged in a game of who had the least turned on fullbacks, with both sets of defenders being caught in no mans land, ball watching, and generally not keeping pace with the game.
As seen in the heat map above, Roma tried to bypass Inters combative midfield and focussed on Kwando Asamoah who has had more than a few shaky games this season and Danilo DAmbrosio. The latter came had a solid game in an attacking sense, but had a torrid time defensively in the first half.
Patrik Schick pulled off a superb bit of skill at one stage, receiving the ball with his back to DAmbrosio, deftly touching it by him and spinning off the defender to then backheel a sublime ball to Alessandro Florenzi, who clattered his effort off the post.
Indeed, the home side started the brighter of the two, but Int
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