Roma regained fourth place from Juventus after defeating its guest Genoa 3-1 on Monday, at the end of the seventeenth round of the Italian Football League.The capital team won the match in the first half, with a hat-trick scored alternately by Argentine Matias Solh with a close shot 14 minutes after the start of the match.Frenchman Manu Kone added the second goal with a shot from inside the area after a pass from Irishman Ivan Ferguson (19), before the latter scored the third goal for Roma after following up on a ball blocked by goalkeeper Daniele Somareva (31).Three minutes before the end, substitute Jeff Ekator scored a goal for Genoa, whose score froze at 14 points in seventeenth place.Roma's victory comes after losing to Juventus in the last stage and temporarily losing fourth place to the «Old Lady» team after defeating Pisa 2-0 on Saturday.Thus, Roma ended the year with 33 points, one point behind Napoli, the defending champion and third-placed team, two points behind second-placed Milan, and only three behind leaders Inter Milan.And it was...
The match was an opportunity for coach Jean-Pierre Gasperini to include his Ukrainian striker Artem Dovbek for the first time after an absence of seven matches due to injury, as he brought him in in the 85th minute, but he may have lost Solh's services due to injury, as he left and Stephan El Shaarawy came in instead of him (57).
Solh is the third non-Italian player to score at least 10 goals for Roma in the league before reaching the age of 23, after his compatriot Erik Lamela (scored 19 goals) and Turkish Cengiz Onder (13 goals).
