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UEFA EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Olimpico in Rome - Rome Thursday 16 September 2021 21.00CET (21.00 local time) AS Roma Group C - Matchday 1 PFC CSKA-Sofia Last updated 17/09/2021 19:55CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 13 Legend 14 1 AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia Thursday 16 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tiago Rodrigues 5, 10/12/2020 GS PFC CSKA-Sofia - AS Roma 3-1 Sofia Sowe 34, 55; Milanese 22 29/10/2020 GS AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia 0-0 Rome Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Roma 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 3 PFC CSKA-Sofia 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 AS Roma - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Cerci 45+1, 52, 16/12/2009 GS PFC CSKA Sofia - AS Roma 0-3 Sofia Scardina 89 01/10/2009 GS AS Roma - PFC CSKA Sofia 2-0 Rome Okaka 19, Perrotta 23 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 02/11/1983 R2 AS Roma - PFC CSKA Sofia Rome Graziani 80 agg: 2-0 19/10/1983 R2 PFC CSKA Sofia - AS Roma 0-1 Sofia Falcão 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 01/10/1975 R1 FC Dunav Ruse - AS Roma Ruse Ivanov 63 agg: 1-2 17/09/1975 R1 AS Roma - FC Dunav Ruse 2-0 Rome Pellegrini 5, Petrini 21 PFC CSKA-Sofia - Record versus clubs from opponents' country PFC CSKA-Sofia have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Roma 4 3 1 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 5 1 2 10 4 PFC CSKA-Sofia 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia Thursday 16 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Match background UEFA Europa Conference League Group C rivals Roma and CSKA-Sofia have been paired together for the second successive season, having also met in the UEFA Europa League group stage last term. Previous meetings • Although Roma finished top of UEFA Europa League Group A last season, and CSKA bottom, the only points dropped by the Italian side were against their Bulgarian opponents, who held them to a 0-0 draw at the Stadio Olimpico on Matchday 2 before exiting the competition on a high with a 3-1 victory against the Giallorossi in Sofia. • Roma have yet to concede against Bulgarian opposition in Rome, winning all of their other three home fixtures. Form guide Roma • Roma finished seventh in Serie A last season, 29 points behind champions Inter, to become Italy's first representatives in the UEFA Europa Conference League. After topping that 2020/21 UEFA Europa League group, which also included Young Boys and CFR Cluj, Paulo Fonseca's side eliminated Braga, Shakhtar Donetsk and Ajax in the knockout phase, only to fall to Manchester United (2-6 a, 3-2 h) in the semi-finals. • Now led by another Portuguese coach, José Mourinho, Roma won both legs of their UEFA Europa Conference League play-off, 2-1 away and 3-0 at home to Trabzonspor. • A 0-2 defeat against holders Real Madrid in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage is the only one of their last 23 European fixtures in the Italian capital that Roma have lost, winning 17. They are now unbeaten in 13 UEFA matches at the Olimpico (W9 D4). CSKA-Sofia • Bulgarian Cup winners last season thanks to a 1-0 final win against Arda Kardzhali, CSKA-Sofia also took third place in the league as well as reaching the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. • The only one of three Bulgarian clubs to have come through this summer's UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying phase, CSKA needed penalties to knock out Latvia's Liepāja after two goalless draws in the second qualifying round before beating Osijek (4-2 h, 1-1 a) and then, thanks to a dramatic late extra-time winner, Viktoria Plzeň in the play-offs (0-2 a, 3-0 h). • CSKA are without a win in six European away fixtures (D4 L2) and have failed to score in eight of the last ten. Links and trivia • Roma boss Mourinho has won all five of his previous matches against Bulgarian teams, including three last season for Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Europa League – 2-1 at Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the second qualifying round, plus 3- 1 away and 4-0 at home against Ludogorets in the group stage. • CSKA coach Stoycho Mladenov played from 1989 to 1991 for Vitoria Setúbal, at the same time that Mourinho was starting his illustrious coaching career with his hometown club's youth team. • Mladenov faced Roma as a CSKA Sofia player in the 1983/84 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round, playing the full 180 minutes of a tie in which the Italian side won both legs 1-0 en route to the final, which they lost on penalties to Liverpool in their Stadio Olimpico home. • CSKA's Georgi Yomov and Kaloyan Krastev both played in Bulgaria's recent 1-1 draw against Italy in Florence in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier; Roma pair Bryan Cristante and Lorenzo Pellegrini came off the bench for the European champions. 3 AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia Thursday 16 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Team facts AS Roma Formed: 1927 Nickname: Giallorossi (Yellow and Reds) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup: (1984) • UEFA Cup: (1991) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2001) Italian Cup: 9 (2008) Ten-year European record 2020/21: UEFA Europa League semi-finals 2019/20: UEFA Europa League round of 16 2018/19: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2017/18: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2016/17: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2014/15: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: UEFA Europa League play-offs Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0 twice, most recently v Gorica 28/09/00, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-7: Gent v Roma 06/08/09, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-7: Roma v Bayern München 21/10/14, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 7-1: Manchester United v Roma 10/04/07, UEFA Champions League quarter-finals second leg UEFA Europa Conference League • Biggest home win 3-0: Roma v Trabzonspor 26/08/21, play-off second leg • Biggest away win 1-2: Trabzonspor v Roma 19/08/21, play-off first leg • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat N/A PFC CSKA-Sofia Formed: 2016 Nickname: The Reds UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Bulgarian Cup: 1 (2021) 4 AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia Thursday 16 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Ten-year European record 2020/21: UEFA Europa League group stage 2019/20: UEFA Europa League third qualifying round 2018/19: UEFA Europa League third qualifying round 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0: CSKA v Titograd 09/07/19, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-3 twice, most recently v Basel 01/10/20, UEFA Europa League play-offs • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: CSKA v CFR Cluj 22/10/20, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 3-0: Young Boys v CSKA 05/11/20, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Europa Conference League • Biggest home win 3-0: CSKA v Viktoria Plzeň (aet) 26/08/21, play-off second leg • Biggest away win N/A • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 2-0: Viktoria Plzeň v CSKA 19/08/21, play-off first leg 5 AS Roma - PFC CSKA-Sofia Thursday 16 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Squad list AS Roma Current season All-time QUAL UECL League UECL UEFA No.