Juventus vs AS Roma
This season’s Coppa Italia is getting hotter, the last 8 presents big teams that are fighting each other over the semi-final phase. One of the big match matches is to bring together Juventus against AS Roma at the Allianz Stadium (Torino). This meeting is also their second meeting this season after meeting 3 weeks ago in the Italian Serie A.
Still remember clearly yesterday’s meeting AS Roma performed well, had left behind 0-2 first thanks to a quick goal from M. Demiral minutes 2 then a penalty goal the mega star C. Ronaldo in the 10th minute made AS Roma increase the tension of the game to catch up. Proven Edin Dzeko et al more dominated possession, recorded AS Roma’s ball possession by 58% while Juventus only 42%, but unfortunately luck did not side with Giallorossi goal D. Perotti from the white spot on 68 minutes did not save AS Roma from defeat.
After the defeat, AS Roma tried to get up with a winning streak in the last 2 matches, beating Parma 0-2 and also Genoa 1-3. While the Old Lady’s stronghold is still in a positive trend, winning streaks in the last 4 matches over Cagliari, AS Roma, Udinese and Parma prove that Juventus deserve to be the favorite team in each match.
This quarter-final round reminds AS Roma last season when they were eliminated in the worst way in the history of the team that was a landslide defeat by a score of 7-1 against Fiorentina. Of course these results are still very imprint so that the ambition to replace these failures is great, as is the case with AS Roma, the stronghold of Juventus also fell in the same round because it lost 3-0 to Atalanta.
It is interesting that both teams carry the same hope, but nevertheless considering that Juventus are the best team at the moment by leading the Italian Serie A standings then also the last meeting of humiliating success of AS Roma. Naturally, with the advantage this time the cage increasingly makes the old lady more trusted to qualify for the semi-finals.
Our Prediction: 1
Odds: 1.62