Good morning! Rise and Shine everyone. We've got cracking Serie A action live on Eurosport.com this morning with Fiorentina travelling to the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Kick off at 11:30.
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Rudi Garcia doodles frantically on his notepad on the touchline. He should be quite content with the first 10 minutes of action.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL ROMA! It's the home side who break the deadlock. Gervinho with some fantastic wing-play on the bye-line, cutting back for Maicon who shifted his feet quickly to bundle the ball past Neto. Roma 1-0 Fiorentina.
Block from Stefan Savic as Ljajic pulled the trigger from 15 yards. Gervinho opened the room for the Serbian after a fine left-sided run.
Vibrant start to the match. Although Roma are playing without Marco Borriello to lead the attack, there's a sign of intent with several midfielders pushing ahead of Adem Ljajic.
Thumping volley from Vargas inside the penalty box. Cuadrado backheeling for Tomovic's cross for the Peruvian left-flanker who stings the palms of De Sanctis.
Speculative from Cuadrado who goes for the direct route to goal in the first shot of the match.
La Viola kick off.
The Italians are surely the biggest culprit for dragging out the pre-match plesantries.
The teams lining and we'll be set to go in a few moments.
Curva Sud: http://t.co/4SH8PyxNDU
Approaching kick-off in Rome. The Curva Sud filling up just nicely going by some of the Twitter pictures going around. I'll link a few.
Roma's Rudi Garcia: "It's true, we're two teams that play well and are used to scoring goals. Often in games like this you can risk an ugly 0-0 without any football. I, though, want to win first and then I hope it's an exciting game for the fans: we go out on to the field to make our fans happy and they're happy when we win."
Italian media expecting both sides to line-up 4-3-3 this morning. Rudi Garcia's men have drawn their last four league games after a blistering start to the campaign. Since, they've dropped six points behind Juventus.
Vincenzo Montella: "We'll have to show the right attitude. We must be aggressive and competitive. It will be important as a game in itself but it won't change the outcome of the season."
TEAMS: Roma: De Sanctis; Maicon, Benatia, Castan, Dodò; Pjanic, De Rossi, Strootman; Florenzi, Ljajic, Gervinho… Subs: Skorupski, Bradley, Marquinho, Totti, Taddei, Destro, Burdisso, Jedvaj, Torosidis, Romagnoli, Borriello, Ricci /// Fiorentina: Neto, Tomovic, Rodriguez, Savic, Pasqual; Aquilani, Ambrosini, Valero; Cuadrado, Rossi, Vargas… Subs: Munúa, Alonso, Roncaglia, Compper, Pizarro, Rebic, Mati Fernández, Joaquín, Wolski, Matos, Ilicic, Olivera.