[Jorquera]

Half of the season is over and time to look back and see how things have been this year. Overall I can be satisfied as a Roma fan. All the major objectives have been accomplished even if Inter has slipped away in the Scudetto race but they have been in an unbelievable form as well.

The other bad thing from the first part of the season is injuries. We have had many injuries to our key players and because of that we have never been able to use our strongest line-up. Of course the injury to Totti has been the biggest blow but Pizarro (at the start of the season), Aquilani, Taddei and Mexes later on have been missed a lot.
Due to many injuries we have been very inconsistant and have never really found our best form this season. Hopefully with all the players back for the New Year we will find our best form and also Mancini who has managed to avoid injuries but has been a shadow compared to his last year performances.

In Champions League we did well, got through to the next round and will fancy our chances then.

New signings have been good, those who have played have been good but there have been disappointments too. Juan has been clearly the best signing. Also I can be happy with Cicinho and Giuly. Cicinho has been good when he played but still lack defensive skill and needs time to adapt. Giuly has got more playing time and has done his job even if he hasn't produced anything special.

After all second part of the season is were the things are decided so there are a lot of interesting matches ahead!