Roma prepared for QarabaÄŸ opportunity
AS Roma are a feat divided from reaching a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 while QarabaÄŸ FK will wish to interpretation their organisation theatre entrance on a certain note in what is their final European tie of a season.
• The Italian side were 2-1 winners in Azerbaijan on matchday dual and have 8 points in Group C, dual behind Chelsea FC and dual forward of Club Atlético de Madrid. Roma will therefore go by with a win, or if Atlético destroy to win during Stamford Bridge. If Roma win and Chelsea do not, Roma win a group.
• Qarabağ have dual points and will finish bottom.
Match background
Roma
• Roma, who are aiming to strech a turn of 16 for a second time in 3 years, have picked adult 4 points during home in Group C, drawing 0-0 with Atlético before a 3-0 better of Chelsea on matchday four. They suffered their initial better in a territory in going down 2-0 in Spain final time out.
• This is a Italian side’s initial home diversion opposite visitors from Azerbaijan.
• That QarabaÄŸ success on matchday dual was Roma’s initial win in 8 UEFA Champions League matches, home and divided and including qualifying, given a 3-2 home feat over Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 4 Nov 2015. They have now won 3 of their final 20 games in a competition.
• Despite a Chelsea success, Roma have won only dual of their final 9 home matches in a UEFA Champions League – subordinate included – losing four.
• The Italian side were separated by FC Porto in final season’s play-offs (1-1 away, 0-3 home). They got as distant as a UEFA Europa League turn of 16, where they were defeated 5-4 over dual legs by Olympique Lyonnais.
• Second in Serie A in 2016/17, Roma are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time and a third in 4 years.
QarabaÄŸ
• The champions of Azerbaijan kicked off their initial UEFA Champions League organisation theatre debate with a 6-0 detriment during Chelsea, though drew 1-1 during Atlético in their final divided fixture.
• This is QarabaÄŸ’s third revisit to Italy, and they mislaid on both prior trips, both in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage: 2-0 during FC Internazionale Milano in 2014/15 and 5-1 during ACF Fiorentina final season.
• Overall QarabaÄŸ’s record opposite Italian clubs is W0 D1 L4.
• The Azerbaijani bar reached a organisation theatre for a initial time by violence Georgian champions FC Samtredia in a second subordinate turn (5-0 home, 1-0 away) and Moldova’s FC Sheriff (0-0 home, 2-1 away). In a play-offs, they won 1-0 during home to FC København and advanced on divided goals after a 2-1 better in Denmark.
• Qarabağ had won their final dual divided games in Europe before losing during FCK; they had won only dual of a prior 11 (D2 L7) however.
• QarabaÄŸ’s divided record in a UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League organisation stages is W2 D2 L7.
• This is QarabaÄŸ’s fourth UEFA Champions League campaign; in any of a prior 3 they were separated in a third subordinate round. Last year they suspended F91 Dudelange 3-1 on total in a second subordinate round, though mislaid to FC Viktoria Plzeň (0-0 away, 1-1 home) during a subsequent hurdle.
• In 2016/17, a Baku-based organisation contested a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – for a third uninterrupted year – after being knocked out of a UEFA Champions League. They have never left on to a turn of 32, however.
• Qarabağ competent for a UEFA Champions League after winning a Azerbaijani Premier League for a fifth time in 2016/17 – their fourth true championship.
Coach and actor links
• Roma’s Juan Jesus was in a Inter organisation that kick QarabaÄŸ 2-0 in Milan in a UEFA Europa League on 2 Oct 2014.
• Stephan El Shaarawy was partial of a AS Monaco FC side that edged Qarabağ 1-0 during home before a 1-1 pull in Azerbaijan in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
• El Shaarawy scored in Italy’s 3-1 win divided to Azerbaijan in UEFA EURO 2016 subordinate on 10 Oct 2015.
• Alessandro Florenzi was also in that Italy choice in Baku, carrying seemed too in a Azzurri’s 2-1 home win on 10 Oct 2014.
• Have played together
Kostas Manolas MÃchel (AEK Athens FC, 2010/11)
• International team-mates:
Edin Džeko Ibrahim Šehić (Bosnia Herzegovina)
Åukasz Skorupski Jakub Rzeźniczak (Poland)