Como vs Roma Preview: To Battle the Wolves
After three weeks with the Frosinone defeat hanging over us, Como return against an unbeaten Roma side. There is attacking quality everywhere you look—and very little room for a slow restart.
After three weeks with the Frosinone defeat hanging over us, Como return against an unbeaten Roma side. There is attacking quality everywhere you look—and very little room for a slow restart.
Cesc Fàbregas has helped Como imagine a different future. Could that future survive his departure? His latest comments give supporters reasons to relax, while the football and finances make a strong case for planning ahead.
Nine matches in 29 days await Como after the international break. Fàbregas has options, but the minutes reveal a familiar core, and his European squad is smaller than the full dressing room suggests.
Fifteen Como players left for international duty in September, and the first week has already brought a dramatic winner, a goal-and-assist combination between club teammates and two very different kinds of recognition.
Como’s unbeaten start ended with a 2-0 defeat at Frosinone, on an afternoon when almost everything in front of goal went against them. The result exposed a few problems Cesc Fàbregas must address, but the performance was...promising?
For years, Como 1907 existed beyond the edge of English-language football coverage. Now the club is climbing the ladder, and there is far more to its story than a beautiful view.