Genoa 4-1 Roma: Grifone shred Mourinho's men
Genoa grabbed another sensational scalp by sweeping Roma aside 4-1, including great goals from Mateo Retegui and Albert Gudmundsson, plus a debut strike for Junior Messias.
Lorenzo Pellegrini returned to support Paulo Dybala and Romelu Lukaku, but Chris Smalling, Renato Sanches, Marash Kumbulla and Tammy Abraham were still out of action after the stalemate with Torino. The hosts had Aaron Martin suspended and Alessandro Vogliacco injured, but Junior Messias was on the bench for the first time this season, with Ruslan Malinovskyi back in the starting XI.
It was a lightning start from the Grifone, as Diego Llorente needed a desperate sliding tackle to stop Mateo Retegui tapping in the Sabelli low cross from the right, then they took the lead moments later.
Genoa won it back in midfield and Albert Gudmundsson completed a give and go with ex-Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman, feinting a shot to the far post and instead pulling it into the near bottom corner from 12 yards.
Strootman also put a ball to the back stick where Leonardo Spinazzola prevented Morten Frendrup from sliding onto it, but Genoa also lost captain Milan Badelj to a muscular injury just 10 minutes in.
Leandro Paredes blasted over from distance, but Roma equalised when Genoa thought that the ball would be put out of play for a Llorente injury, instead Leonardo Spinazzola continued and whipped in a cross for Bryan Cristante’s header from six yards.
Once the substitution with Edoardo Bove was completed, Cristante had to move into the centre-back position.
Jose Mourinho wanted Strootman shown a red card rather than yellow for his very clumsy challenge on Gianluca Mancini, but the Dutch midfielder then went off with a muscular injury, forcing a second Genoa change.
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