Qarabağ relishing Roma opportunity

Having suffered a complicated better on their UEFA Champions League organisation debut, Qarabağ FK will wish to pull on their considerable home form as they find a some-more certain outcome opposite AS Roma.

Match background

Qarabağ
• Beaten 6-0 during Chelsea FC in their initial Group C game, Qarabağ can during slightest demeanour to a plain new home record as they bid to get points on a board. They have mislaid usually one of their final 9 European home matches (W5 D3): 1-2 opposite ACF Fiorentina in a UEFA Europa League on 8 Dec 2016.

• 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), followed by Moldova’s FC Sheriff (0-0 home, 2-1 away) in a third. 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’s 4 prior fixtures opposite Italian sides have finished W0 D1 L3 (D1 L1 during home). They drew 0-0 with FC Internazionale Milano in Baku in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, and went down 2-1 to Fiorentina during a same theatre of that foe final season, their many new home defeat.

• This is Qarabağ’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 afterwards mislaid to FC Viktoria Plzeň (0-0 away, 1-1 home) in a subsequent stage.

• 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 by 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.

Roma
• This is Roma’s initial diversion opposite a bar from Azerbaijan.

• Second in Serie A in 2016/17, Roma are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time and a third in 4 years.

• 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.

• The goalless pull during home to Club Atlético de Madrid on matchday one means Roma are though a win in 7 UEFA Champions League matches, home and divided and including qualifying, given a 3-2 home feat over Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 4 Nov 2015. That is their usually success in their final 16 games in a competition.

• Roma won dual of their 5 divided fixtures in final season’s UEFA Europa League but, in a UEFA Champions League, they are though a feat in their final 10 divided matches, including subordinate (D5 L5). A 3-2 delight during FC Basel 1893 in a 2009/10 organisation theatre is their solitary feat in their final 12 divided games in a competition, organisation theatre to final (D4 L7).

Coach and actor links
• Roma’s Juan Jesus was in a Inter organisation that kick Qarabağ 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 Europe 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
Míchel Kostas Manolas (AEK Athens FC, 2010/11)

• International team-mates:
Ibrahim Šehić  Edin Džeko (Bosnia Herzegovina)
Jakub Rzeźniczak Łukasz Skorupski (Poland)

Article source: http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2018/matches/round=2000881/match=2021616/prematch/background/index.html?rss=2496783+Qarabağ+relishing+Roma+opportunity