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MILAN (AP) — Roma’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League diminished on Saturday as it surprisingly lost 2-1 at relegation-threatened Spal in Claudio Ranieri’s second match back as interim coach.A Mohamed Fares header and an Andrea Petagna penalty secured Spal’s first win at home in six months. Diego Perotti had leveled from the spot.“As I told the guys when I came in Cheap Germany Soccer Team Uniform , now is the moment for them to prove they deserve what they earn, that they deserve to be at Roma,” Ranieri said. “Today we lost against a team of footballers who earn less and who are in dire straits.“If Roma qualifies for the Champions League, there’s a plan, otherwise quite a few will get a change of scenery.”Roma missed the chance to go level on points with fourth-place Inter Milan ahead of Sunday’s derby against third-place AC Milan.The top four in Serie A qualify for next season’s Champions League. Torino and Atalanta are three points behind Roma.Spal moved four points clear of the relegation zone.“We played against a team and we weren’t a team,” Ranieri said. “We lost every duel on the field. They were the more determined. We need to play more as a team and improve on a physical and tactical level. We ran a lot too, but badly.”Roma had narrowly beaten Empoli on Monday in Ranieri’s first match but it had a number of players missing through injury, while Alessandro Florenzi was suspended.Spal hadn’t won at the Stadio Paolo Mazza since September but took the lead in the 22nd minute when Fares headed in Manuel Lazzari’s cross.Ranieri made a double change at the break, introducing Diego Perotti and Nicolo Zaniolo, and they had an immediate effect.Zaniolo www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/italy , who had been struggling with a calf injury, threaded the ball though to Edin Dzeko, who was fouled by Thiago Cionek. Perotti converted the penalty, sending Spal goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano the wrong way.However, Petagna won and scored a penalty of his own seven minutes later after he was shouldered over by Juan Jesus.SUPER QUAGLIARELLAFabio Quagliarella celebrated his first Italy call-up in four years with yet another Serie A goal to help Sampdoria win 5-3 at Sassuolo.It was Quagliarella’s 21st league goal of the season, extending his personal record. The 36-year-old remained atop the scoring list with two more goals than Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Milan’s Krzysztof Piatek.Quagliarella was named in Italy’s squad on Friday for upcoming European Championship qualifiers against Finland and Liechtenstein.Quagliarella was last named in a squad in 2015, and his last appearance in an Azzurri shirt was in 2010.At Sassuolo, he set up the opener for teammate Gregoire Defrel in the 15th minute and got on the scoresheet himself in the 36th with a right-footed shot from just outside the area.Jeremie Boga pulled one back for Sassuolo two minutes later but Karol Linetty immediately restored Samp’s two-goal advantage with help from Quagliarella in the buildup.Quagliarella also set up Samp’s fourth, a volley from Denis Praet seconds after halftime, and Manolo Gabbiadini scored the fifth. Alfred Duncan and Khouma Babacar also scored for Sassuolo.MISSED CHANCETorino missed the opportunity to move level on points with Roma as former coach Sinisa Mihajlovic guided relegation-threatened Bologna to a 3-2 win in a match where both teams ended with 10 men.Bologna climbed out of the relegation zone with only its second league win since the start of December.Bologna midfielder Erick Pulgar netted an early own goal. But he also converted a penalty in the first half following Soualiho Meite’s handball Cheap Mexico Soccer Team Uniform , shortly after substitute Andrea Poli had leveled.Bologna had a goal ruled out in each half although Riccardo Orsolini extended the visitors’ advantage in the 65th minute.Torino was given hope when Bologna defender Lyanco was sent off following a second yellow card three minutes from time and Armando Izzo headed in to reduce the deficit moments later.But defender Ola Aina was sent off too shortly after, receiving a second yellow card for dissent. As architect of an unprecedented run of excellence at the helm of the U.S. women’s soccer team, Jill Ellis wasn’t short on accomplishments.Back-to-back World Cup titles while never losing a game. A staggering overall record of 102-7-18. Multiple “coach of the year” honors.And yet, as she announced Tuesday that she would be stepping down as U.S. coach at the conclusion of a five-game victory tour this year, it’s clear the numbers don’t tell the whole story with Ellis.Article continues below ...“She is massively underrated,” Craig Harrington, the highly-regarded assistant coach for National Women’s Soccer League’s Chicago Red Stars, told me in a telephone conversation.“International soccer has so much turnover, that’s just how it is. Coaches come and go — she survived all that and saved the best for last, dominating a World Cup in a way that has never been done before.“The U.S. job has challenges that other programs don’t. There are a lot of strong characters and different personalities. Working those things together into a team that wants to play for each other isn’t easy. But when history judges her www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/portugal , she did exactly what was asked of her and more.”Ellis will never get her due credit for an extraordinary run that saw the U.S. team at the forefront of national discussion as a generational influencer of young women and a beacon of sporting excellence. And she seems fine with that.After all, in 2019, at a time when the women’s game is fighting for greater recognition and financial equality, what is the better storyline? That the main architects for victory are fearless athletes such as Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, or a smart, calm, quiet coach who doesn’t read what is being written about her?Despite the historical success of the program, the U.S. had never won back-to-back World Cups before — and never won one on European soil. During the early stages of the tournament, Ellis found her tactics and substitution patterns come under heavy scrutiny. Such criticisms seem foolish now, after host nation France was blown away in the quarterfinal Cheap Russia Soccer Team Uniform , a tight struggle against England was survived in the last four, and the Netherlands was handily dispatched for the gold.Never mind the talent within the squad. The U.S. women won because not only they were the best team at the World Cup, they were also the hungriest — no easy feat when you are the defending champions.“When you come to such a high, and have gone to the top, it is hard to repeat it time and time again,” Ellis said, when I asked her on a Tuesday conference call how she managed to keep her players so desperate for success. “It is not just the soccer pieces but making sure you bring in new blood. That’s an important part of building.”Ellis did rebuild, and not everyone liked it. Carli Lloyd, the best player from the 2015 World Cup win, was restricted to coming off the bench in France this summer and wasn’t a big fan of the change.Several senior players complained about Ellis’ methods following a quarterfinal defeat to Sweden in the 2016 Rio Olympics after lobbied for her removal. Ellis knows that if it hadn’t been for the 2015 World Cup memory still being somewhat fresh www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/spain , she would likely have been fired post-Rio. But she stuck it out, and now goes out on top – a rarity in modern day soccer.Ellis never indulged in excuses as the U.S. coach. She never backed away from the reality that the U.S. is expected to win each and every time it takes to the field, embracing their No. 1 ranking and relishing the associated pressure.Ellis was neither public-facing nor demonstrative. When she had gripes, either with players or the federation, she handled them internally rather than laying them before the court of public opinion.Such things don’t get you lauded as the hero, and she’s fine with that, too.“The advice I would give the next person would be to do it their way,” Ellis added. “Make sure you do it the way you want to do it.”