2) Francesco Totti momentum invaluable to Roma
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For all their flair and inventiveness, there still seems to be something flimsy about the DNA of the Roma team. They’ve struggled to assert themselves in some of their most important matches in recent times, and despite the personalities in their dressing room, find their heads going down when the going gets tough on the pitch.
It’s been several times now in the recent past that they’ve had to turn to their eternal marvel Francesco Totti to bail them out, and that was the case again in their match against Sampdoria at the Stadio Olimpico.
Totti came on to play a gorgeous ball to Edin Dzeko and then stepped up in the 90th minute to bury a penalty but Luciano Spalletti should really be asking himself why the rest of his team isn’t stepping up in crucial moments.
