Roma halt mini-stoop with Spezia win

Roma halt mini-stoop with Spezia win

Goals from corners in every half from Chris Smalling and Roger Ibanez placed Jose Mourinho's facet returned on target following defeat at Bologna and a home hammering at the arms of champions Inter Milan remaining weekend.

Roma are as much as sixth on 28 points, points behind Fiorentina who maintain the Europa League qualification spot and level with Juventus, in 7th after drawing at Venezia on Saturday. 

However, they're some way from their authentic goal of Champions League soccer as they sit 8 points in the back of fourth-located Napoli, and lacking a few key gamers failed to persuade on the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

"I become thrilled with the dreams because we spent 25 mins working on corners the day gone by," Mourinho informed Sky Sport Italia.

"I'm additionally thrilled with the end result, however I failed to just like the manner we played... Even when we were two goals beforehand, I didn't feel like the healthy became over."

An 11th defeat for Spezia leaves Thiago Motta's group just points and one place above the relegation sector, no matter a spirited display which probable deserved at least a goal.

Smalling put Roma beforehand together with his first league purpose of the season within the 6th minute when, absolutely unmarked at a corner, he casually met countryman Tammy Abraham's headed attempt from a corner with a header of his personal that Ivan Provedel had no danger of saving.

Abraham changed into also worried whilst the hosts had been unfortunate to not double their lead inside the twenty fifth minute, the England worldwide cleverly flicking a pass to Matias Vina who then watched his aim-bound effort well tipped away by using Provedel.

And after Rui Patricio stopped Arkadiusz Reca from drawing the away aspect degree, Abraham became denied his fifth league goal of the season through the bar in first-half of stoppage time.

The former Chelsea striker met Henrikh Mkhitaryan's fizzing go together with his chest and hit the woodwork for the 7th time this season, before Jordan Veretout's rebound force became stored out by way of a combination of Provedel and Martin Erlic.

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