Roma's first failure of the season: The Croatian outwitted Mourinho on his debut, and Lazio failed

For the first time in the season, Roma did not win.

The euphoria subsided after the duel with Verona, a team that did not have a single point until today and that fired coach Eusebi di Francesco after three rounds.

"Vučica" lost 3:2 at "Bentegodi" and ended a streak of six victories in all competitions (Series A, qualifiers and group stage of the League of Conferences), although they had an advantage at halftime.

He hit Lorenzo Pellegrini with a masterful heel, it seemed that Jose Mourinho would not miss the chance to continue his triumphant streak after the clouds broke in the city of Romeo and Juliet.

"I knew that Verona had the quality that would emerge one day," Mourinho said.

And it really came out in the sequel, because the host had a turnaround by the 54th minute through Antonjin Barak and Gianluka Kaprari.

In the 58th minute, Roma equalized with an own goal by Ivan Ilić, and Verona won with a fantastic goal by Davide Faraoni.

"In the second half, we read the situations on the field badly. We simply got into a rhythm that suited the rival, not us. That's why we lost, and I think we shouldn't have allowed that," the Portuguese pointed out.

The new coach of Verona is Igor Tudor. The Croatian couldn't have imagined a better debut.

"We have a strong character. When you concede a goal like that for 2:2, it's not easy to move forward and chase the triumph," said Tudor.

The other Roman club did not win either - Lazio won only a point against Cagliari at "Olimpico" (2:2).

Ćiro Imobile scored the fifth goal of the season to give the home team the advantage, followed by a reversal (Joao Pedro and Keita Balde), and Danilo Cataldi scored the final goal.

Thus, another debutant coach - Walter Macari - stopped the favorite in the first match after returning to the bench.

"I congratulate the players for their reaction after several days of hell in which the public almost bombarded them with criticism," said Macari.

Adam Marušić was on the field for the last fifteen minutes as part of Laci.

Sampdoria easily got the better of Empoli (3:0), while Spezia recorded its first victory, away from home against Venice (2:1).