Luis Henrique

But he brought on Carlos Augusto and Peter Suchich and it added more balance into the midfield.

And then Bastoni went off and he brought on Luis Enrique, who Roma were linked throughout the summer.

And Inter just looked more in control of the game.

And they were just like, I know we're talking about the goal in the moment, but I think Roma's subs, and I'll just talk about that as well.

And during those 15 minutes, I was basically hoping all the time, okay, let's not give them counters, let's not give them the ball to attack, because I was so kind of scared, like, can they score? And I think they weren't that close in the end either, but it just felt so...

so kind of frightening because I don't trust our defending anymore like at all I feel that anything can happen there when the opponent has the ball in our half and they are kind of in a attacking position to be able to like attack our box especially when Kivu brought in Luis Henrique I understand why he did it because Bastoni was so, he was like toast.

He had to be taken off.

But then there were Carlos Augusto and Luis Henrique on the left side, Bissek and Diouf on the right side.

Like, I don't know, that's like a disaster waiting for happen.

They did pretty well there, but it's just a feeling that can these guys handle it that's something i have like in the back of my head when i watch these matches now because we seem to be incapable of keeping clean siege anymore this was this like fourth match in a row we've conceded two goals and we've given kind of a two goal lead to the opponent or they've taken two goal leads four matches in a row that that should kind of ring some bells there in the coaching staff and well even with the team like what's what's going on how how this keeps happening all the time no matter what's the opponent like is it a big match or small match or whatever in between uh they should really focus on this and of course most if at least half if not most of the squad is out out in the national team break anyway so it's it's for the kivu and and his coaching staff to figure this out what they're gonna do differently are they kind of is kivu's message to the team not not kind of it's not going through there it's not landing if if this this just keeps happening all the time i i saw the comments after the match that he kind of enjoys this kind of football it's more like a epl style or whatever when there are a lot of goals I don't know is there a lot of goals in EPL like much more goals than Serie A I don't know I haven't watched the stats but I'm I gotta be honest I I like the idea, but then the reality is not maybe something I love that much.

Curtis Jones is young and new to the league.

Suchic is a young player.

Both players were unavailable for this fixture due to their impending moves, which certainly signals a busy period for the Gelorossi as they look to finalize their squad.

Roma are also reportedly in the market for attacking wingers, with offers said to have been made for Luis Henrique of Zenitzen, Petersburg and Jamie Luling of Stuttgart.

So, while the focus on the pitch was Lex versus Roma, There was a lot happening behind the scenes at the Stadio Olimpico.

But let's turn our attention to the game itself, as Roma travelled to face US Lex.

I don't want to see one of those sort of passive Champions League performances where... we're you know behind everything we're second to every loose ball that sort of thing i just want to see a motivated fired up team go out there and put their best foot forward

amigo talk to me about lineups in this match who do you want to see featured in the team do you want to see someone like pavar reintroduced there's this demarco injury concern it looks like he actually left the game against napoli injured it wasn't a tactical decision to take him off are you willing to give Luis and Arikis a start at left running back? I'm kidding with that one, but preview your lineup for me.

Yeah, that's a very good question.

How are we going to start this match? You named already those players which are the kind of the key decisions.

How we manage that? I could see that Bavard could actually start the match, but then will it be Stones or Bissek? Because I feel Bissek has been really good at the start of the season, probably our best best defender and he's fast enough so that's really really interesting kind of decisions Kivo needs to make I don't know about the right flank that's a tough one since Diouf is still I like his effort I like how he has really kind of he has the buy-in with the wingback position, but we can see that he is not accustomed to it, that there is some kind of naive moves or positional mistakes here and there.

So I don't know.

Is he good enough for this match? Luis Henrique is, yeah, I don't know.

I don't feel good starting him.

And the midfield engine featured Hakan Kanaloglu, Flank Babarela and good old Petr Suchic.

Di Marco and Enrique supplying width and the young Pio Esposito alongside Lazaro up front.

And like I said before, you know, Cali refresh off that opening day when they sat in a compact 4-2-3-1. formation thanks to Fabio Pisgani.

The match, look, the sun was baking.

One, because of the dominance of the display, but two, potentially for missed chances.

Inter will be very, very clear, and I'm sure Kivu will have said to the boys afterwards that we will not be able to miss chances like this, never mind the goalkeeping exploits when we face both Napoli and Real Madrid in the coming games.

Esposito and Luis Enrique both had opportunities late in the half, but again Caprile repeatedly stood tall, ensuring that Inter...

Would go into the half time.

You tell me if I'm crazy, but I didn't see what the hype was about.

Now, because we wasted so much time on leveling, Luis Henrique was also unable to join the club.

And this actually has more to do with political reasons than anything else.

I think he was probably the guy we... we were going to bring in.

They're trying to build something and get bodies in to build a squad.

There was talk of Luis Enrique from Senna, I think it was.

He was the player who was at Real Betis, who scored the goal for Betis in the Europa League when they played each other in the 22-23 season.

That sort of cooled because Roma were after labelling.

As for Inter, it was a 3-5-2 formation with Martinez in goal, Bastoni, Akanji and Pavard at the back.

Di Marco on the left, Luis Henrique on the right, Suchic, Chalanoglu and Barella in the middle with Martinez and Esposito playing up front.

Now, Calhanoglu actually settled the game nine

minutes in, drilling home first time after Barella cut in from the right to make it 2-2 for the Turk.

Sure, where maybe Sommer would have made it last season.

Some 50-50s he did really well in.

Luis Henrique starting this game after how you've performed in the game before.

What's going on, man? Why is he starting the shyest Brazilian I've ever seen in my life? Because Luis Henrique is the shyest Brazilian I've ever seen, bro.

He's coming out on an initial loan.

The big news of the day really is that Luis Henrique from Senet, Luis with a Z, not an S, the one from Inter, It looks like he's going to be the choice to come in as our potentially last attacking player.

And he's going to be the big, the big winger, which we'll get into in a minute, but not great.

Not great.

I've never actually seen him play.

Um, Luis Henrique.

Henrique with an H.

Uh, Ange-Antoine Bonny, Marcus Thuram, Benjamin Pavard.