Atlético on a ropes for Roma return
Club Atlético de Madrid’s UEFA Champions League hopes hang in a change as they perform AS Roma looking to get their initial Group C win during a fifth time of asking.
• Diego Simeone’s side, who drew 0-0 in Rome on opening night, lay third in a territory on 3 points, 5 behind their opponents, who are top, and 4 adrift of Chelsea FC. QarabaÄŸ FK have dual points.
• Atlético will sojourn in row with a win, or with a pull if Chelsea remove during Qarabağ. They will sign during slightest third place if they win and Qarabağ lose.
• Roma are by with a draw. They can bind initial place if they win and Chelsea do not.
Previous meetings
• Atlético won both of a teams’ usually prior fixtures before this season, posting 2-1 victories home and divided in a 1998/99 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. José Mari (13) and Roberto (46) scored for Atlético in a home initial leg, with a Luigi Di Biagio divided idea (75) giving Roma wish for a return.
• The hosts were turn on total 32 mins into a Stadio Olimpico lapse by Marco Delvecchio, though Juan Carlos Aguilera leveled on a night on a hour and Roberto’s second idea of a tie (88) gave a Spanish bar another 2-1 feat and a 4-2 total success.
Match background
Atlético
• Simeone’s charges are still though a win during home in this season’s competition, carrying been beaten 2-1 by Chelsea on matchday dual before being hold 1-1 by QarabaÄŸ final time out.
• The Chelsea better finished Atlético’s 11-match dominant run during home in Europe (W9 D2); final tenure Atleti won 5 of their 6 home games.
• Atlético won 30 of their final 36 European fixtures during a Calderón, losing usually twice. They are still to win in a Estadio Metropolitano in Europe.
• Third in Spain in 2016/17, Atlético usually missed out on apropos a seventh side to win all 6 matches in a UEFA Champions League organisation when they went down 1-0 during FC Bayern München on matchday 6 final season.
• Simeone’s organisation went on to strech a semi-finals, though a 3-0 first-leg annulment during Real Madrid CF proved too many to collect notwithstanding a 2-1 second-leg success in a final European diversion played during a Vicente Calderón.
• Atlético’s home record opposite teams from Italy is W7 D0 L3, many recently a 1-0 win opposite Juventus in a 2014/15 organisation stage.
Roma
• Roma’s divided record opposite Spanish rivals is W4 D3 L7. They were 4-0 winners during Villarreal CF in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 32.
• The Giallorossi have picked adult 4 points from their dual divided games, a 2-1 feat during Qarabağ and a 3-3 pull during Chelsea.
• That QarabaÄŸ success 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. Matchday four’s 3-0 scalp of Chelsea means they have now won 3 of their final 19 games in a competition.
• 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.
• Roma won dual of their 5 divided fixtures in final season’s UEFA Europa League but, in a UEFA Champions League, were though a feat in 10 divided matches, including subordinate (D5 L5), before matchday two. A 3-2 delight during FC Basel 1893 in a 2009/10 organisation theatre is their usually other feat in their final 15 divided games in a competition, organisation theatre to final (D6 L7).
• Second in Serie A in 2016/17, Roma are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time and a third in 4 years.
Coach and actor links
• Simeone played for SS Lazio between 1999 and 2003, winning a joining and crater double in his initial campaign. Simeone also met Roma manager Eusebio Di Francesco in dual Rome derbies in 1999/2000, a 4-1 divided better and 2-1 home win for Lazio.
• Simeone also played for AC Pisa (1990–92) and FC Internazionale Milano (1997–99) and coached Calcio Catania (2011) in Italy. His son Giovanni is during ACF Fiorentina and could face Di Francesco’s son, Federico, when his side play Bologna FC subsequent weekend.
• Have played together:
Kevin Gameiro Federico Fazio, Diego Perotti (Sevilla FC, 2013/14)
Fernando Torres Stephan El Shaarawy (AC Milan 2014/15)
• International team-mates:
Yannick Carrasco Radja Nainggolan (Belgium)
Antoine Griezmann Maxime Gonalons (France)
Filipe LuÃs Alisson Becker (Brazil)
• Have played in Italy:
Šime Vrsaljko (Genoa FC, 2013/14; US Sassuolo Calcio, 2014–16)
Fernando Torres (AC Milan, 2014/15)
Stefan Savić (ACF Fiorentina, 2012–15)
• Have played in Spain:
Héctor Moreno (RCD Espanyol, 2011–15)
Federico Fazio (Sevilla FC, 2007–14, 2016)
Diego Perotti (Sevilla FC, 2008–14)
• Monchi spent 11 years as a actor with Sevilla before apropos a club’s sporting executive in 2000. He left a post in Apr 2017, holding adult a identical purpose with Roma this summer.
• Daniele De Rossi scored a chastisement equaliser opposite Koke’s Spain in Italy’s 1-1 draw in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Oct 2016.
• De Rossi also played when Italy kick Juanfran’s Spain 2-0 in a UEFA EURO 2016 turn of 16, while Torres scored for Spain in a 4-0 delight over De Rossi’s Italy in a UEFA EURO 2012 final.
• Saúl ÑÃguez strike a hat-trick as Spain dispatched Lorenzo Pellegrini’s Italy 3-1 in a semi-finals of a UEFA European Under-21 Championship this summer.