MILANO (AP) – Artem Dovbyk scored the first goal of the season in Roma’s first start, leaving Giallorossi in one of his season’s mistakes in a 2-0 victory over Hellas Verona.
Jean Piero Gasperini Nine years after taking charge of Atalanta, he continued his near-perfect start in the Italian capital, earning all but one of the six matches he was responsible for Rome.
Rome moved second in points with Serie a leader Napoli. Defending champion match at AC Milan The second half of Sunday.
Roma was full of confidence heading into the match following his Derby victory over Lazio last weekend and an all-week victory over Nice in the Europa League.
And it was a perfect start when Dovbyk headed Zeki Celik’s cross to the bottom right corner in the seven minutes.
Verona should have been levelled on the 28th when Domagoji Bradarick’s low cross was deflected to the unmarked gift orban route.
Visitors continued to miss the opportunity before Matthias Soulhe finished fighting back against everyone except sealing the Rome match in the 79th minute.
There was more misery for Orban in stop time when he found the back of the net, but that was ruled out as the ball was grazing his arm before he proceeded through it.
Allowed goals
Fiorentina forward Moise Kean was not allowed two goals offside in an interesting 0-0 draw in a derby match at PISA.
Henrik Meister thought he had a great goal at Pisa, but that was also ruled out for handball in the build-up.
Pisa forward Juan Quadrado, who played for Fiorentina during 2012-15, also hit the post.
Both Fiorentina and the promoted Pisa are still looking for a first Serie A victory of the season.
Previously, Sassolo defeated Udinese 3-1.
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