The Roma Derby on film

Winning a derby is always a great pleasure. For Daniele De Rossi, it was an even bigger thrill than he had expected, as he later revealed in a press conference. It was the first time he had won it on the bench after spending his career on the pitch. The stifled scream towards the curve, the swollen vein like on his best days and then the catwalk under a celebrating Curva Sud, carried in triumph by his own players. "I don't think there's a happier person in the world right now than me," he admitted after the game, and the same could be said of the entire Giallorossi fanbase, who managed to win a stracittadina again after more than two years of defeats against the Biancocelesti. Gianluca Mancini's goal ended an almost 400-minute scoring drought for Roma and recalled the goal scored 20 years later by another Mancini - Amantino - with a backheel under the Curva Sud to decide De Rossi's first derby as a player. At the end of the game, the Giallorossi players returned to the part of the Olimpico that has always gathered the hearts of the loudest and most loyal fans to embrace one last time - for a victory that was desired, sought and finally achieved with pride and intensity. We have traced all the emotions of a game that can never be like any other, through the faces, gestures and looks captured by Claudia di Nicolò's lens.