Key occasions
HALF TIME: Roma 1-1 Feyenoord (agg 2-2)
Roma spend the added time urgent ahead, however can’t create something, and the whistle goes for half-time. For the reason that equaliser, they’ve been the more likely scorers. However as issues stand, nothing separates the groups.
45 min: There might be two added minutes.
44 min: Spinazzola is inflicting all method of hassle down the left flank. He twists Nieuwkoop inside out, like an outdated sock, and wins a nook. When the ball is available in, Wellenreuther flaps at it, and a fast sport of head tennis breaks out, however no one in pink can intention the ball goalwards and the hazard quickly passes.
42 min: Giménez goes down and requires somewhat therapy. He’s up and about once more quickly sufficient.
41 min: Spinazzola dribbles down the left earlier than sending Geertruida off to the Colosseum with a drop of the shoulder. He digs out a cross but it surely doesn’t attain Lukaku. The guests once more clear their strains. Spinazzola seems to have the beating of Geertruida, not least as a result of the Feyenoord right-back is on a reserving.
39 min: For the primary time within the night, the tempo drops. You’ll be able to’t actually blame anybody. All of those lads have been pelting round at full tilt because the get-go, and with nice feeling besides.
37 min: Spinazzola breezes down the left and crosses. A flick on in the direction of Lukaku, who can’t get a strong sufficient header away. Beelen clears, however Roma come once more, Karsdorp chesting all the way down to the suitable of the D and trying to Le Tissier a volley goalwards. Into the stand it disappears. Once more, a full ten out of ten on the outdated Ambition-o-meter™.
35 min: Cristante tries to attain with a volley from the very best a part of 30 yards. Full marks for ambition, however the odds weren’t precisely in his favour. Purpose kick.
33 min: El Shaarawy drives down the left once more. He cuts again once more, this time to Spinazzola, who crosses right into a crowded field. Feyenoord cope with the hazard, however Roma are having fairly a little bit of pleasure down this left flank, the place their equaliser got here from.
31 min: Cristante barrels down the suitable and is introduced down by Wieffer’s garden-variety foul. Roma encompass the referee once more, however that’s not a reserving, only a run-of-the-mill clatter. A number of rags in peril of being misplaced right here.
29 min: A ball descends from outer area. Dybala brings it to heel with an outrageous flash of his left boot. Audible gasps on the other-worldly management. Can one featherlite contact be price value of admission alone? Sure.
27 min: … and now Geertruida and Pellegrini high-kick one another. There’s not a lot in it, however Pellegrini makes essentially the most of it, and given the yellow simply awarded to Paredes, plus a lot encouragement from the house crew and their supporters, the Feyenoord man goes into the guide as effectively.
26 min: One other yellow card for Roma, as Paredes high-kicks clumsily on the close by Nieuwkoop whereas contesting a free ball.
24 min: Karsdorp slides a intelligent diagonal go from the suitable in the direction of Lukaku, however Beelen and Hancko launch a pincer motion to crowd the striker out of it.
22 min: Lukaku, on the sting of the Feyenoord D, cushions a ball into the highway of Pellegrini, who whistles a shot vast proper. That is continuous enjoyable.
21 min: Pellegrini advances down the left elegantly. He then whips a excessive in-swinger into the field. Cristante, striding down the center, rises above the out-rushing Wellenreuther and eyebrows a header over the keeper and inches vast of the right-hand publish. So near a second for Roma!
20 min: Feyenoord paint some fairly triangles within the centre of the pitch. Stengs, Paixão and Hartman then mix to advance the ball in the direction of the suitable flank, some very crisp and assured passing, however the remaining cross is not any good. Beautiful play, although.
18 min: The free kick’s labored from proper to left. Timber makes it to the byline and cuts again for Giménez, who can solely shank excessive and vast left from shut vary, below stress from Pellegrini. This match might find yourself as something.
17 min: Spinazzola goes into the guide for tugging again Nieuwkoop as he makes his method down the Feyenoord proper. A free kick in a really harmful place right here. Everybody piles into the field.
GOAL! Roma 1-1 Feyenoord (Pellegrini 15); agg 2-2
Roma’s captain will get his crew again on phrases with a magnificence! El Shaarawy pops up alongside the left channel and rolls again to Pellegrini, simply to the left of the D. He takes a contact, opens his physique, and power-strokes an unstoppable shot throughout Wellenreuther and into the top-right nook. What a begin to this sport!
14 min: Wieffer is seeing a variety of the ball. Roma might want to cope with this, as a result of regardless of that aforementioned miss, he seems within the temper.
12 min: This match is absurd! Now Wieffer goes racing clear down the center, just for his fierce low shot to be parried by Svilar. That might have actually put the cat among the many pigeons.
11 min: Roma desire a penalty, arguing that amid the hubbub, Llorente was clipped by Stengs. However neither referee nor VAR exhibits any curiosity in giving one, Llorente hanging in a leg and on the lookout for contact. Shades of Sterling v Walker within the Manchester Metropolis v Chelsea match final weekend.
10 min: The nook’s hit lengthy. Mancini heads goalwards. Hancko clears off the road! Then a scramble, earlier than El Shaarawy drags a shot vast left. Wow.
9 min: Roma reply effectively, and Dybala takes a speculative whack from the sting of the field. Blocked. Then the hosts come once more, Karsdorp crossing low from the suitable to win a nook. The hosts load the field. Paredes to take.
7 min: There’s an extended VAR examine, however the ball clearly went in off the sting of his shoulder. The purpose stands! Silence momentarily descends earlier than the house followers emit a scream of defiance. Recreation on!
GOAL! Roma 0-1 Feyenoord (Giménez 5); agg 1-2
Wieffer spins elegantly down the left flank. He sends Hartman away. A low cross fizzes via to Nieuwkoop, who prods again throughout purpose in the direction of Giménez, six yards out and stage with the left-hand publish. Giménez leans into it, Rasmus Hojlund v Luton type, and the ball pings off his left shoulder and in!
4 min: It’s all a bit frenzied in the mean time. No one’s settled but. A number of-pass sequences at a premium.
2 min: The gang are giving it lots. Feyenoord keeper Wellenreuther tries to attract a number of the warmth by taking an age over a clearance. Good thought, in concept. Bedlam, bedlam, bedlam.
Roma get the ball rolling. Excited? Matt Burtz actually is! “By no means has a European tie had my title written throughout it greater than this one. Not solely have I attended video games at each the Stadio Olimpico and De Kuip (with every house crew scoring three objectives in a victory), however former Everton man Romelu Lukaku options prominently for Roma. Right here’s hoping this one is a cracker.”
The groups are out! Roma are used to successful European ties lately, and the environment on the Stadio Olimpico is accordingly anticipatory. Roma of their deep pink, Feyenoord in a third-choice white equipment with inexperienced pinstripe that screams Northern Eire at España 82. We’ll be off in a few minutes!
Anyway, again to the Stadio Olimpico. Roma are coming off the again of a cushty 3-0 weekend win at Frosinone; they’re presently sixth in Serie A, 22 factors adrift of runaway leaders Internazionale. Feyenoord have been much less spectacular within the Eredivisie, leaving it late to beat the ten males of RKC Waalwijk by a single purpose. They’re second within the desk, however a distant ten factors behind leaders PSV Eindhoven.
There are three different Europa League ties kicking off at 8pm. A reminder that away objectives are now not a factor, and these rubbers can go all the best way to a penalty shoot-out if nothing’s determined after regulation and additional time.
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Marseille v Shakhtar Donetsk (agg 2-2)
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Sparta Prague v Galatasaray (agg 2-3)
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Sporting v Younger Boys (agg 3-1)
A few the ties have already been determined. A pair extra are going to further time and, who is aware of, penalties. Listed below are the ultimate scores of the early kick-offs …
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Freiburg 2-2 Lens (agg 2-2; further time to be performed)
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Qarabag 0-2 Braga (agg 4-4; further time to be performed)
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Rennes 3-2 AC Milan (agg 3-5)
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Toulouse 0-0 Benfica (agg 1-2)
Roma make two adjustments to their beginning XI from the primary leg. Stephan El Shaarawy and Bryan Cristante return; Nicola Zalewski drops to the bench whereas Edoardo Bove is suspended.
Feyenoord additionally make two adjustments from the primary leg. Their main scorer Santiago Giménez – 21 objectives up to now this season – and captain Lutsharel Geertruida are again; Ramiz Zerrouki and Yankuba Minteh drop to the bench.
The groups
Roma: Svilar, Karsdorp, Mancini, Llorente, Spinazzola, Cristante, Paredes, Pellegrini, Dybala, Lukaku, El Shaarawy.
Subs: Rui Patricio, N’Dicka, Smalling, Azmoun, Celik, Sanches, Aouar, Baldanzi, Zalewski, Boer, Costa, Angelino.
Feyenoord: Wellenreuther, Geertruida, Beelen, Hancko, Nieuwkoop, Wieffer, Timber, Hartman, Stengs, Igor Paixao, Gimenez.
Subs: Zerrouki, Jahanbakhsh, Ueda, Lopez, Ivanusec, Minteh, Sauer, Learn, Milambo, Lamprou, Lingr, van Sas.
Referee: Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain).
Preamble
It’s the second leg of essentially the most eye-catching tie within the Europa League knockout play-offs. Each of those world-famous golf equipment have received this competitors earlier than, in case you outline your phrases broadly, generously and in good religion: Feyenoord lifted the Uefa Cup in 1974 and 2002, whereas Roma received the 1961 version of the Inter-Cities Festivals Cup, not formally recognised by Uefa as a predecessor of at present’s match, however broadly thought-about to be precisely that by nearly everybody aside from excessive pedants or The Man. You get it.
Of the 2 golf equipment, Feyenoord have the larger European pedigree, on account of their 1970 European Cup win. However Roma have been their bosses in recent times. In 2022, Jose Mourinho’s Giallorossi beat Feyenoord within the first-ever remaining of the Europa Convention League. Then final season, they did a quantity on the boys from Rotterdam once more, this time within the quarter-finals of the Europa League, en path to a Budapest remaining they’d lose on penalties to Sevilla. How they’d like to go one higher this time below new boss Daniele De Rossi.
They’re favourites to finish Feyenoord’s European desires for a 3rd straight season, on account of coming away from De Kuip final week with a 1-1 draw. Igor Paixão had given the reigning Dutch champions a half-time lead earlier than Romelu Lukaku’s twenty first strike in his final 18 Europa League appearances levelled issues up within the second half. That leaves Arne Slot’s males battling towards historical past: Roma have by no means misplaced at house to a aspect from the Netherlands, whereas Feyenoord have received solely two of their earlier 12 European ties through which they’d drawn the primary leg at house. Kick off on the Stadio Olimpico is 8pm GMT, 9pm native. It’s on!
