Roma’s Florenzi celebrates decisive goal with grandma

Daniele Peluson 06:11 22/09/2014
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  • Family matters: Roma midfielder Alessandro Florenzi takes on Luca Rossettini.

    Alessando Florenzi was more than happy to receive a yellow card after celebrating his strike with his 82-year-old grandmother.

    Florenzi scored Roma’s second against Cagliari and then ran into the stands before hugging and kissing his grandmother who was attending her first game at the Sta­dio Olimpico. He said: “She’s 82 and had never been to the stadium.

    “After I played for Italy, she told me that she’d come to the stadium and I would score. My family gave me this passion for football, I want to share my joy with everyone.”

    Rudi Garcia’s men have won all three of their league games so far without conceding and also claimed a 5-1 win over CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.

    They were not quite as devastat­ing against Cagliari, but two goals in three minutes from Mattia Destro and Florenzi was enough to keep them among the early pacesetters.

    Destro could have opened the scoring after just four minutes, but Alessio Cragno made a smart save.

    The Italy striker did not have to wait long to score, though, as Florenzi found him in the box and he slotted home low off the far post.

    The second was not long in com­ing, with Daniele De Rossi and Gervinho combining to find Floren­zi, who fired home from the edge of the six-yard box and launched him­self into the crowd to celebrate.

    Luca Ceppitelli had the first chance for Cagliari as he got a head on Diego Farias’ free-kick, but could only aim his effort over the bar.

    The visitors had their tails up and Farias tried his luck from distance before Victor Ibarbo headed a cor­ner over the bar.

    Maicon fired widely off target early in the second half, but Cagliari continued to press and Roma goal­keeper Morgan De Sanctis had to head away from outside his box to prevent Marco Sau having a chance.

    Farias and Maicon saw further efforts fly over the bar before the latter crossed for Destro, but he could only head over the bar.

    Cagliari were searching for a way into the game and were only denied by De Sanctis, who did well to claw Samuel Longo’s curling shot away from the top corner after an impressive run as the visitors could not find the breakthrough. 

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