Fiorentina 2 – Roma 0: Job done for Fiorentina at home to Giallorossi

Fiorentina enjoyed a mesmerising home victory against Roma at Stadio Artemio Franchi on Monday. Fiorentina arrived at the game looking pick up points, following a previous defeat to AC Milan. Roma secured a point against Bologna in their previous match. As the table looks today, both teams are on 59 points and occupy 7th and 6th places respectively after 36 matches.

The Purple One dominated the first half, thanks to an early penalty goal from Nicolas Gonzalez in the 5th minute. However they weren’t finished yet and Giacomo Bonaventura made it 2-0, at 11 minutes, finalising the first half 2-0. Both teams struggled to produce anything meaningful in the second half, leaving the final score at 2-0.

For Fiorentina, Krzysztof Piatek, Youssef Maleh, Jose Callejon, Riccardo Saponara and Aleksa Terzic, came on for Arthur Cabral, Giacomo Bonaventura, Nicolas Gonzalez, Jonathan Ikone and Cristiano Biraghi. Roma replaced Nicolo Zaniolo, Stephan El Shaarawy, Carles Perez, Leonardo Spinazzola and Eldor Shomurodov with Sergio Oliveira, Nicola Zalewski, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Rick Karsdorp and Tammy Abraham.

There were bookings for Sofyan Amrabat, Giacomo Bonaventura and Alfred Duncan from Fiorentina, and Gianluca Mancini, for Roma.

Fiorentina will next travel to Sampdoria, while Roma will face Venezia at home.