Beating the blues

By: Kamran | December 10th, 2008

Totti vs Bordeaux

Oh, and yes they have done that directly too. But this time, they also raced ahead of Chelsea in Group A standings. Here’s a rundown for viewpoint of the masses after European fixtures so far:

Match-day 1 (Roma 1-2 Cluj): LOL, Chelsea are going to annihilate the group with Cluj or Bordeaux behind them most probably.
Match-day 2 (Bordeaux 1-3 Roma): Well, they sucked in the game anyway. UEFA Cup spot for them will be more than rewarding. Cluj is an effing shock.
Match-day 3 (Chelsea 1-0 Roma): Story of the eternal times. Smaller fish plays good, but the bigger one gets the result. Nothing surprising here.
Match-day 4 (Roma 3-Offside+Handball Chelsea): WTF?
Match-day 5 (Cluj 1-3 Roma): Er.. well they can qualify at least for sure.
Match-day 6 (Roma 2-0 Bordeaux): Lucky bastards.

For the fans though, six consecutive victories in all competitions takes a little more than luck. More than anything, it also takes a healthy Captain rallying his troops like an emperor and leading by example like a gladiator. Not even 100% fit and 6 goals in 8 games. And then there’s the vision, passing and late game surges of energy which propel his team as much as they move the fans.

Tonight’s performance: 7. He lost 0.235 for one selfish run in the first half where he did cut the defender by a close-range fake-shot-cum-dribble but he ended up trying too much in the box and didn’t release Perotta waiting on his left. Other than that, Roma didn’t go forward with much credibility during the match anyway so it wouldn’t be fair to single out Totti for exhibiting lackluster attacking. But then, he got a chance, and he blasted a precise finish in the bottom-far corner. Vintage Totti? No. Regular Totti? Yes. And everyone knows that Regular Totti > Vintage-anyone-and-everyone-else anyway.