Roma v Atlético: line-ups, where to watch, form guide
- Last season’s semi-finalists Atlético Madrid open Group C during Roma
- Atleti manager Simeone sealed two-year agreement prolongation final week
- Simeone: “Our proclivity is to win a Champions League”
- Giallorossi though high-profile summer signing Schick since of injury
- Roma’s weekend diversion during Sampdoria deferred due to continue conditions
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Possible line-ups
Roma: Alisson Becker; Florenzi, Manolas, Juan Jesus, Kolarov; Strootman, De Rossi, Nainggolan; Defrel, Džeko, Perotti.
Out: Emerson (knee), Schick (thigh)
Atlético: Oblak; Vrsaljko, GodÃn, Giménez, Filipe LuÃs; Koke, Gabi, ÑÃguez, Carrasco; Griezmann, Torres.
Out: A Fernández (hamstring)
Where to watch
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Eusebio Di Francesco, Roma coach
[Diego Simeone’s] side have his identity. They know what he wants and they get formula – maybe it’s not so cultured though it’s practical. What we wish from my organisation is a right organisation. We’ve got to stay compress during all times. But I’d need a full day to explain my truth – I can’t report it in dual words. We’ve suspicion of a approach of causing them problems, even if we can’t exhibit it publicly. We need players who can take responsibility, players with character.
Diego Simeone, Atlético coach
We don’t have any wickedness complex. What happened in a past stays in a past, we demeanour to a future. Tomorrow we start another journey that we are vehement about. we know Roma are a good side who like to play aesthetically appreciative football; they play good down a wings and are glorious technically. we trust in a destiny of this club. The plea gets larger and greater. There’s life here. Our proclivity is to win a Champions League.
Weekend results
Sampdoria P-P Roma
Valencia 0-0 Atlético
Form guide*
Roma: LW
Atlético: DWD
*All competitions, this deteriorate only. Most new outcome first
Reporter’s view: Ben Gladwell (@UEFAcomBenG)
If there were a competition for coolness, Simeone and Di Francesco would underline prominently. You would not have been means to theory that this was a eve of their initial UEFA Champions League organisation theatre tie of a deteriorate when they met a media today. Both were, of course, gripping their cards tighten to their chest, though if Roma can compare Atlético on a margin as good as their manager matched Simeone off it, afterwards they will have finished half of a job. Were we to ask Di Francesco now if he would take a draw, however, he would substantially accept. Yet it is transparent he wants more, and – humbly and silently – he honestly believes his side can get it.
Did we know?
Atlético won both of a teams’ usually prior fixtures, posting 2-1 victories home and divided in a 1998/99 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. Read some-more in the endless compare background.