{"id":5944,"date":"2026-04-11T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:10:20","slug":"malen-hits-hat-trick-as-roma-rebound-against-declining-pisa-football-supersport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5944\/","title":{"rendered":"Malen hits hat-trick as Roma rebound against declining Pisa | football | SuperSport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donyell Malen hit a hat-trick as Roma revived their fading European hopes by cruising past Serie A’s bottom club Pisa 3-0 on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Roma, thrashed by runaway leaders Inter Milan in the last round, regained ground in the race for a top four place<\/p>\n

They moved level with Juventus, who are fifth, and one point behind Como in fourth. Como host Inter on Sunday. Juventus visit seventh place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Pisa remained anchored to the foot of the table.<\/p>\n

Malen scored with all three of host Roma’s shots on goals as he took his total to 10 in 12 Serie A appearances since joining in January.<\/p>\n

In the third minute, two visiting players had a chance to intercept a Roma punt forward but Antonio Caracciolo could only knee the ball into Malen’s pass.<\/p>\n

The Dutch attacker sidestepped one more defender before firing home.<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Pellegrini hit the angle of post and bar with a free kick before helping set up Malen’s second in the 43rd minute.<\/p>\n

After Pisa repeatedly failed to clear, Devyne Rensch, who has yet to score in Serie A, picked up a loose ball in the box, played a one-two with Pellegrini and then poked a pass to Malen who rolled in from close range.<\/p>\n

Malen completed his hat-trick after 51 minutes running onto a through pass from Matias Soule, turning away from two defenders and driving the ball home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donyell Malen hit a hat-trick as Roma revived their fading European hopes by cruising past Serie A’s bottom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2756,32,3147,36,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-5944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rome","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-italy-serie-a","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rome"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}