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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 2-0) Stadio Olimpico - Rome Thursday 25 February 2021 AS Roma 21.00CET (21.00 local time) SC Braga Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 12/05/2021 12:17CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 13 Match-by-match lineups 17 Match officials 19 Legend 21 1 AS Roma - SC Braga Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/02/2021 R32 SC Braga - AS Roma 0-2 Braga Džeko 5, Mayoral 86 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Roma 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 SC Braga 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 AS Roma - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Soares 26, Marega 3-1 52, Alex Telles 117 06/03/2019 R16 FC Porto - AS Roma Porto agg 4-3 (aet) ET (P); De Rossi 37 (P) Zaniolo 70, 76; Adrián 12/02/2019 R16 AS Roma - FC Porto 2-1 Rome López 79 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 Felipe 8, Layún 73, 23/08/2016 PO AS Roma - FC Porto Rome agg: 1-4 Corona 75 André Silva 61 (P); 17/08/2016 PO FC Porto - AS Roma 1-1 Porto Felipe 21 (og) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Liedson 22, 64; Sporting Clube de Portugal - AS 07/11/2007 GS 2-2 Lisbon Cassetti 4, Polga 90 Roma (og) AS Roma - Sporting Clube de Juan 15, Vučinić 70; 23/10/2007 GS 2-1 Rome Portugal Liedson 18 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 09/11/2000 R2 AS Roma - Boavista FC Rome Nakata 8; Duda 54 agg: 2-1 26/10/2000 R2 Boavista FC - AS Roma 0-1 Porto Montella 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 30/09/1999 R1 Vitória FC - AS Roma Setubal Makinwa 77 agg: 1-7 2 AS Roma - SC Braga Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome UEFA Cup Aldair 12, Montella 14, Alenichev 16, 55, 77, 16/09/1999 R1 AS Roma - Vitória FC 7-0 Rome Assunção 40, Delvecchio 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 03/10/1990 R1 SL Benfica - AS Roma Lisbon Giannini 28 agg: 0-2 19/09/1990 R1 AS Roma - SL Benfica 1-0 Rome Carnevale 1 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 16/03/1983 QF SL Benfica - AS Roma Lisbon Filipović 20; Falcão 85 agg: 3-2 Di Bartolomei 67 (P); 02/03/1983 QF AS Roma - SL Benfica 1-2 Rome Filipović 40, 62 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 04/11/1981 R2 AS Roma - FC Porto Rome agg: 0-2 21/10/1981 R2 FC Porto - AS Roma 2-0 Porto Walsh 42, Costa 46 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Armero 25; Rúben 28/08/2012 PO Udinese Calcio - SC Braga agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- Udine Micael 72 5 pens) 22/08/2012 PO SC Braga - Udinese Calcio 1-1 Braga Ismaily 68; Basta 23 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2008 GS AC Milan - SC Braga 1-0 Milan Ronaldinho 90+3 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 22/02/2007 R3 Parma FC - SC Braga Parma Diego Costa 90 agg: 0-2 15/02/2007 R3 SC Braga - Parma FC 1-0 Braga Zé Carlos 81 2-1 Tiribocchi 38, Godeas 28/09/2006 R1 AC Chievo Verona - SC Braga Verona agg 2-3 (aet) 67; Wender 104 ET Paulo Jorge 5, 14/09/2006 R1 SC Braga - AC Chievo Verona 2-0 Braga Wender 90+1 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Roma 8 4 2 2 9 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 17 7 5 5 23 18 3 AS Roma - SC Braga Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 4 2 1 1 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 8 3 2 3 7 7 4 AS Roma - SC Braga Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background Roma are well placed to reach the last 16 of the UEFA Europa League for the second season in a row as they take the field at the Stadio Olimpico holding a 2-0 lead from the first leg of their round of 32 tie against Braga. • Both teams kicked off their 2020/21 European campaigns in the UEFA Europa League group stage, Paulo Fonseca's Roma registering 13 points as they topped Group A, three points ahead of fellow qualifiers Young Boys, and Carlos Carvalhal's Braga posting the same number as they finished runners-up on the head-to-head rule to Leicester City in Group G. Previous meetings • Edin Džeko, making his first start in this season's UEFA Europa League, took just five minutes to give Roma the lead in the first leg – his 17th goal in the competition. The visitors sealed victory late on with a second goal from substitute Borja Mayoral as Braga lost at home without scoring in the round of 32 for the second straight season. • Roma have faced Portuguese opposition eight times previously in the Italian capital, where their record is W4 D2 L2. In seven two-legged knockout ties their record is W3 L4, the two most recent having both been lost on aggregate to Porto in the UEFA Champions League – 1-4 in the 2016/17 play-offs (1-1 a, 0-3 h) and 3-4 in the 2018/19 round of 16 (2-1 h, 1-3 a aet). • Braga have won all three of their previous two-legged knockout ties against Serie A sides, knocking both Chievo and Parma out of the 2006/07 UEFA Cup and most recently beating Udinese on penalties in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League play-offs after two 1-1 draws. Their record in Italy is W1 D1 L2. Form guide Roma • Roma finished fifth in Serie A last term to qualify for the group stage for the second season running and fourth time in all. Fonseca's side were defeated 2-0 by eventual winners Sevilla in last season's round of 16, which remains the furthest the club has gone in the UEFA Europa League – though they were UEFA Cup runners-up in 1990/91. • The Giallorossi have now made it four qualifications from as many UEFA Europa League group stage participations, with three as group winners. They secured this season’s round of 32 place with two group games to spare, doing the double over both Young Boys (2-1 a, 3-1 h) and CFR Cluj (5-0 h, 2-0 a) but dropping points in both games against bottom-placed CSKA-Sofia (0-0 h, 1-3 a). • The Rome club lost their first UEFA Europa League round of 32 tie, going out to Panathinaikos in 2009/10 (2-3 a, 2-3 h), but have won the three since, eliminating Feyenoord in 2014/15 (1-1 h, 2-1 a), Villarreal in 2016/17 (4-0 a, 0-1 h) and Gent in 2019/20 (1-0 h, 1-1 a). • A 0-2 defeat against holders Real Madrid in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League is the only one of their last 18 European fixtures in the Italian capital that Roma have lost, winning 13. Their only home defeats in the UEFA Europa League have all come in the spring, with their knockout phase record at the Stadio Olimpico W2 D1 L3, the victories recorded in the two most recent fixtures. • Roma have a perfect record of ten wins out of ten in two-legged UEFA ties when they have been victorious away from home in the first leg, the most recent case that round of 32 success against Villarreal four years ago. On the three occasions that they have won the first leg 2-0 away, they have also won the return fixture without conceding. Braga • Braga's 16th European qualification in the last 17 years was achieved with a third-placed finish in the 2019/20 Portuguese Liga, a season in which they also topped their UEFA Europa League group undefeated ahead of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Slovan Bratislava and Beşiktaş before losing to Rangers in the round of 32 (2-3 a, 0-1 h). • The Portuguese club competed in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the sixth time in the autumn, securing a fifth qualification with four wins against AEK Athens (3-0 h, 4-2 a) and Zorya Luhansk (2-1 a, 2-0 h) that offset a 4-0 away defeat and 3-3 home draw against section winners Leicester.