UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Thursday 19 September 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) AS Roma Group J - Matchday 1 İstanbul Başakşehir Last updated 07/08/2020 19:16CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 AS Roma - İstanbul Başakşehir Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams AS Roma - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Emerson 23, Cassano 03/03/2004 R3 AS Roma - Gaziantepspor Rome agg: 2-1 43 26/02/2004 R3 Gaziantepspor - AS Roma 1-0 Gaziantep Yusuf Şimşek 19 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Cafu 52; Ümit Karan 13/03/2002 GS2 AS Roma - Galatasaray AŞ 1-1 Rome 45 Pérez 22; Emerson 20/11/2001 GS2 Galatasaray AŞ - AS Roma 1-1 Istanbul 90+2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kocabey 22, 58, Arif 3-2 09/12/1992 R3 Galatasaray AŞ - AS Roma Istanbul Erdem 75; Caniggia 8, agg: 4-5 Hässler 47 Aldair 59, 90, Muzzi 25/11/1992 R3 AS Roma - Galatasaray AŞ 3-1 Rome 81; Hakan Şükür 86 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 18/03/1970 QF Göztepe - AS Roma Izmir agg: 0-2 Landini II 32, Capello 04/03/1970 QF AS Roma - Göztepe 2-0 Rome 76 İstanbul Başakşehir - Record versus clubs from opponents' country İstanbul Başakşehir 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 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 8 3 3 2 11 7 İstanbul Başakşehir 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 AS Roma - İstanbul Başakşehir Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background After two successive seasons in which they reached the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League, Roma are back for a third crack at the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they open their campaign with a home fixture against 2018/19 Turkish Süper Lig runners-up İstanbul Başakşehir. Previous meetings • This is the Turkish club's first UEFA encounter against an Italian side. • Roma have won three and drawn one of the four matches in which they have hosted Turkish opposition, the last such occasion bringing a tie-clinching 2-0 win against Gaziantepsor – to whom they had lost the first leg in Turkey 1-0 – in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup third round. Form guide Roma • Roma finished sixth in last season's Serie A, missing out on UEFA Champions League qualification for the first time in six years. They were defeated 4-3 on aggregate after extra time by Porto in the 2018/19 round of 16 having reached the previous season's semi-finals. • This is the Giallorossi's fifth participation in the UEFA Europa League proper but only their third appearance in the group stage. They have won their group on both previous occasions, in 2009/10 and 2016/17, reaching the round of 16 in the latter. • Roma are 11 games undefeated in the UEFA Europa League group stage and have won five and drawn one of the six games at home, scoring at least twice in each of them. A 0-2 defeat against holders Real Madrid in last season's UEFA Champions League is the only one of their last 11 European fixtures that they have lost in the Italian capital, winning nine. İstanbul Başakşehir • This is İstanbul Başakşehir's fifth successive European campaign, having made their UEFA competition bow in 2015/16. They ensured a return this term by finishing second to Galatasaray in a closely fought Süper Lig title race. • Home (0-1) and away (0-2) defeats by Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round put İstanbul Başakşehir into the UEFA Europa League group stage for the second time. Their previous campaign, in 2017/18, ended after six matches as their tally of eight points left them in third place behind Braga and Ludogorets. • The Istanbul club have won just one of their ten European away fixtures (D3 L6), 2-1 at Ludogorets on matchday five of that 2017/18 campaign. They have not scored in any of their last four European fixtures, home or away. Links and trivia • Turkish winger Cengiz Ünder joined Roma from İstanbul Başakşehir in 2017 after scoring seven goals in 32 league games the previous season. • İstanbul Başakşehir coach Okan Buruk played in Serie A for Internazionale between 2001 and 2004. • Three of the Turkish club's players also have Serie A experience – Robinho with AC Milan, where he was a Scudetto winner in the first of his four seasons from 2010/11 to 2013/14; Eljero Elia with Juventus in 2011/12; and Gökhan İnler with Udinese (2007–11) and Napoli (2011–15), where he won the Coppa Italia twice. • İstanbul Başakşehir's Gaël Clichy played at Manchester City with Roma's Edin Džeko (2011–15) and Aleksandar Kolarov (2011–17). The coaches • Paulo Fonseca was appointed as the new Roma head coach on 11 June 2019. He arrived in the Eternal City having won the Ukrainian league and cup double in each of his three seasons with Shakhtar Donetsk, where he had replaced the long-serving Mircea Lucescu in 2016. A central defender of modest repute, he paid his dues as a coach in his native Portugal, first making his mark at Paços de Ferreira then joining Porto in 2013 before winning his first major trophy, the 2015/16 Portuguese Cup, with Braga. • A former midfielder who spent most of his playing career at Galatasaray, with whom he won seven Turkish league titles plus the UEFA Cup/UEFA Super Cup double in 2000, Okan Buruk also helped Turkey to third place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. İstanbul Başakşehir became his seventh club in as many seasons as a coach when he succeeded Beşiktaş-bound Abdullah Avcı in the summer of 2019. His profile had risen considerably a year earlier when he led unheralded Akhisar Belediyespor to Turkish Cup success with a 3-2 final victory against Fenerbahçe. 3 AS Roma - İstanbul Başakşehir Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Team facts AS Roma Formed: 1927 Nickname: Giallorossi (Red and Yellows) 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 (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2017/18: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2016/17: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2014/15: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: did not participate in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not participate in UEFA competition 2011/12: play-offs 2010/11: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2009/10: round of 32 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 Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0 twice, most recently v Gorica (see above) • Biggest away win 1-7: Gent v Roma (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Roma v Fiorentina 19/03/15, round of 16 second leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-0: Karlsruhe v Roma 15/10/96, second round first leg İstanbul Başakşehir FK Formed: 2014 Nickname: Baykuş (The Owls) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) None 4 AS Roma - İstanbul Başakşehir Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: third qualifying round 2017/18: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2016/17: play-offs 2015/16: third qualifying round 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 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 2-0: İstanbul Başakşehir v Club Brugge 02/08/17, UEFA Champions League play-off second leg • Biggest away win 1-2: Ludogorets v İstanbul Başakşehir 23/11/17, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 1-2 on three occasions, most recently v Sevilla 16/08/17, UEFA Champions League play-off first leg 0-1: İstanbul Başakşehir v Olympiacos 07/08/19, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Hoffenheim v İstanbul Başakşehir 19/10/17, UEFA Europa League group stage 2-0 three times, most recently v Olympiacos 13/08/19, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 2-1: İstanbul Başakşehir v Braga 07/12/17, group stage • Biggest away win 1-2: Ludogorets v İstanbul Başakşehir 18/08/16, play-off first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-2 twice, most recently v Shakhtar Donetsk 18/08/16, play-off first leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Hoffenheim v İstanbul Başakşehir (see above) 2-0 twice, most recently v Shakhtar Donetsk 25/08/16, play-off second leg 5 AS Roma - İstanbul Başakşehir Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Squad list AS Roma Current season All-time UEL League UEL UEFA No.