Evan Ndicka

His positioning is always bad.

What he contributes in attack can be replaced by literally everybody else, as we've seen evidence of Balerdi, Ndika, Ghilardi, Koulirakis even, all contributing in attack.

It's like...

If he's not defending as a defender and he's only contributing an attack, put in another midfielder or another wing or a different central defender who will defend.

Molina passed it to Darun.

Darun crossed it in.

And Evan Ndika got his head to it.

Ended up hitting Castro in the face.

Wasn't excellent.

Ndika is always kind of a 7-8.

And Balerdi, after his heroics against Napoli, he didn't even see the field.

It's kind of strange, in my opinion.

He got a decent back line in Mancini and company.

And Ndika, yeah.

Like, the pieces are starting to get in there.

Do you see maybe an upgrade in midfield? One or two more upgrades and...

And maybe another goal as well, who knows.

But I think the other thing with Roma, just calling it out of the defence, is Ndika and Mancini, I believe, were both benched.

So it was either you went for Molina and Hermoso, who both came away with a 13-pointer, respectively.

Or you got Wesley hooked off at the 59th minute.

Ndika, who got zero.

Mancini, who got one point off.

So it was kind of like a horror show that of one of the few teams who actually kept a clean sheet, you either got an absolute haul or absolutely nothing.

I think it was De Rossi as well.

It was either De Rossi or Leite Mourinho when Lukaku scored at the end and him and Ndika did the celebration.

Yeah, that was at the Olimpico.

Just thinking when was our last win... at the Maradona.

And I think a lot of it does come down to the dominance of the defenders that we have, whether it's the three who started today, Hermoso, Balerdi, and Gilardi, who all looked excellent.

Or if it's the players who start more normally, like Ndika and Mancini.

Overall, I would say that, you know, from tip to tail, Roma's looking like quite an interesting side.

Are they on Real Madrid's level yet?

Malen stepped up himself in the 57th minute and coolly dispatched the spot kick, placing it beyond the reach of the keeper to score his goal and put the result completely beyond doubt before the hour mark.

Slovan Bratislava struggled throughout the 90 minutes to break through Roma's organized defensive block, failing to register a single clear opportunity against a compact back line led by Hermoso and Evan Ndicka.

With the four-goal lead comfortably secured, Gasperini utilized his full complement of substitutes during the final half hour to rest key starters and manage match fitness ahead of upcoming domestic fixtures.

Roma calmly controlled possession in the closing stages, closing out a flawless performance that secured a valuable clean sheet and three crucial points in their European campaign.

I'm not count- I'm count it later.

Haaland, Ndiaye, Ndicka.

So we have a lot of names here.

Let me zoom in a little bit.

Um, yeah, Mancini for the last one would've been more interested in battling physically with, um, with Rüdiger than actually trying to win the ball.

So yeah, I, I'm not entirely sure on Ndicka either, um, or Hermoso as their back three, and I think that will probably let Roma down despite my enthusiasm for them and, and my appreciation of them.

Um, I thought it was interesting how, you know, the changes he makes, you know, in terms-- he goes Endrick early for Vinicius Junior, which I think makes a big difference.

Espi comes on for Diomande.