UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Wednesday 9 December 2015 20.45CET (20.45 local time) AS Roma Group E - Matchday 6 FC BATE Borisov Last updated 09/03/2016 00:25CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 8 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Group Standings 17 Team facts 19 Legend 21 1 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Stasevich 8, Mladenović 12, 30; 29/09/2015 GS FC BATE Borisov - AS Roma 3-2 Borisov Gervinho 66, Torosidis 82 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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 FC BATE Borisov 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 AS Roma - Record versus clubs from opponents' country AS Roma have not played against a club from their opponents' country FC BATE Borisov - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Renan Bressan 55 01/11/2011 GS FC BATE Borisov - AC Milan 1-1 Minsk (P); Ibrahimović 22 Ibrahimović 33, 19/10/2011 GS AC Milan - FC BATE Borisov 2-0 Milan Boateng 70 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/2008 GS Juventus - FC BATE Borisov 0-0 Turin Krivets 17, Stasevich 30/09/2008 GS FC BATE Borisov - Juventus 2-2 Minsk 23; Iaquinta 29, 45+3 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 27/07/2002 R3 FC BATE Borisov - Bologna FC Borisov agg: 0-2 20/07/2002 R3 Bologna FC - FC BATE Borisov 2-0 Bologna Cruz 28, Bellucci 81 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Rui Costa 21, Javi 4-0 27/09/2001 R1 AC Milan - FC BATE Borisov Milan Moreno 45, Sarr 56, agg: 6-0 F. Inzaghi 74 (P) Shevchenko 64, Javi 20/09/2001 R1 FC BATE Borisov - AC Milan 0-2 Minsk Moreno 88 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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 2 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 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 FC BATE Borisov 5 1 3 1 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 9 1 4 4 6 15 3 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background AS Roma host FC BATE Borisov in their final Group E fixture with both clubs still in with a chance of claiming a place in the UEFA Champions League round of 16. • Roma, with five points, sit above Bayer 04 Leverkusen in second place thanks to their superior head-to-head record and they will hold on to their position with victory over BATE – or if they draw and Leverkusen fail to beat FC Barcelona in the group's other game. • BATE, fourth with four points, will qualify for the knockout stage for the first time if they win in Rome and Leverkusen lose or draw against Barcelona. Match background Roma • Roma last qualified for the UEFA Champions League round of 16 in 2010/11. • They must put behind them their 6-1 defeat at Barcelona on matchday five and can take heart from their efforts at the Stadio Olimpico so far in Group E – having held Barça (1-1) and defeated Leverkusen (3-2). • The Giallorossi have the leakiest defence in the group stage, with 16 goals conceded in five games to date. BATE • Qualifying matches included, BATE have won none of their five away fixtures in this season's competition, losing the last three. • The Belarusian champions earned their first victory over Italian opposition when beating Roma 3-2 on matchday two. In Italy their record is W0 D1 L3. • BATE's solitary draw in Italy was a 0-0 stalemate with Juventus on 10 December 2008. Dmitri Likhtarovich, Vitali Rodionov, Igor Stasevich and Aleksandr Volodko all played, while current coach Aleksandr Yermakovich came on as an 89th-minute substitute for his last European appearance as a player. Coach and player links • Home coach Rudi Garcia faced BATE with LOSC Lille in the 2012/13 campaign, the Borisov outfit winning 3-1 in France on 19 September 2012 to register their first victory in the UEFA Champions League group stage. BATE's team included Aleksandr Hleb, Likhtarovich, Dmitri Mozolevski, Denis Polyakov, and scorers Edgar Olekhnovich and Volodko. • Lille – featuring Lucas Digne – won the return 2-0 in Minsk but BATE still ended up third in the group with Garcia's men bottom. • Yermakovich played in BATE's two UEFA Intertoto Cup ties with Bologna FC in 2002 (0-2 a, 0-0 h). • Edin Džeko and Miralem Pjanić won 2-0 with Bosnia and Herzegovina in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier away to a Belarus side including Maksim Zhavnerchik. • Mikhail Gordeichuk and Dmitri Baga were in the Belarus team who overcame Italy 3-0 in Borisov in October 2010 to qualify for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship finals (aggregate 3-2). • Francesco Totti played and Morgan De Sanctis was on the bench when Italy prevailed 4-1 away to Hleb's Belarus in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier in September 2005. Totti (2) and Daniele De Rossi (1) had earlier scored when Italy edged Belarus 4-3 at home. • Hleb helped Arsenal FC beat Juventus in the 2005/06 quarter-finals (aggregate 2-0) and Milan in the 2007/08 round of 16 (aggregate 2-0). • Players who have played together: Hleb & Seydou Keita (Barcelona 2008–09) Match facts Roma • Radja Nainggolan and Daniele De Rossi are both within a booking of a ban. • Roma have failed to score in only two of their last 31 games in all competitions, most recently when losing 2-0 to Atalanta BC on 29 November – the Giallorossi's first home defeat since the final day of last season. • Džeko has managed five goals in his last eight appearances for club and country. • Garcia's side have only kept one clean sheet in their last 17 matches (2-0 v SS Lazio on 8 November) and two all season. 4 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome • Roma have conceded 18 goals in 15 Serie A games this term. At this stage in Garcia's first two seasons in charge the figure stood at four (2013/14) and 11 (2014/15) respectively. • Gervinho lasted just 26 minutes of the 1-1 draw at Torino FC on 5 December − his first appearance since suffering a thigh injury during the Ivory Coast's 3-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory over Liberia on 17 November. • Mohamed Salah sustained an ankle injury in the victory against Lazio and was subsequently ruled out for four to six weeks. • Totti has been sidelined since picking up a thigh injury against Carpi FC 1909 on 26 September. The Roma captain lasted only nine minutes after replacing Džeko at half-time. • Alessandro Florenzi's long-range goal against Barcelona on matchday one is one of the three finalists for the FIFA Puskás Award. The winner will be announced on 11 January. BATE • Nemanja Milunović, Filip Mladenović, Denis Polyakov and Maksim Volodko are all a booking away from a ban. • BATE completed an 8-1 aggregate victory over FC Granit Mikashevichi in the Belarusian Cup round of 16 with a 3-1 second-leg triumph on 29 November. • Aleksandr Karnitski, a 73rd-minute substitute on matchday five, has scored in each of his last three starts. • BATE claimed their tenth successive Belarusian title on 16 October by winning 2-0 at FC Vitebsk. They concluded their Vysshaya Liga campaign with a 4-1 triumph over SFC Slutsk on 8 November, finishing 12 points clear of runners-up FC Dinamo Minsk. • Sergei Chernik kept a league best 16 clean sheets in 24 appearances. BATE did not concede a goal until their 11th fixture of the 2015 season. 5 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Squad list AS Roma Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 25 Wojciech Szczęsny POL 18/04/1990 25 - - - 5 - 11 - 28 - 34 - 26 Morgan De Sanctis ITA 26/03/1977 38 - - - 1 - 4 - 20 - 54 - 59 Ionuţ Pop ROU 01/08/1997 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 98 Lorenzo Crisanto ITA 20/04/1998 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Antonio Rüdiger GER 03/03/1993 22 - - - 4 - 8 - 4 - 12 - 3 Lucas Digne FRA 20/07/1993 22 - - - 5 - 13 1 13 - 15 1 5 Leandro Castán BRA 05/11/1986 29 - - - - - 3 - - - 3 1 13 Maicon BRA 26/07/1981 34 - - - 2 - 6 1 59 5 70 6 35 Vasilis Torosidis GRE 10/06/1985 30 - - - 4 1 9 - 28 3 49 5 44 Kostas Manolas GRE 14/06/1991 24 - - - 5 - 15 1 24 2 42 4 91 Riccardo Marchizza ITA 26/03/1998 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 95 Elio Capradossi ITA 11/03/1996 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 4 Radja Nainggolan BEL 04/05/1988 27 * - - 5 - 15 - 11 - 14 - 7 Juan Manuel Iturbe PAR 04/06/1993 22 - - - 5 - 11 1 11 1 14 1 14 Iago Falqué ESP 04/01/1990 25 - - - 4 1 12 1 4 1 11 1 15 Miralem Pjanić BIH 02/04/1990 25 - - - 4 2 13 7 31 7 39 8 16 Daniele De Rossi ITA 24/07/1983 32 * - - 4 2 11 1 45 6 74 10 20 Seydou Keita MLI 16/01/1980 35 - - - 2 - 7 - 61 5 110 8 21 William Vainqueur FRA 19/11/1988 27 - - - 2 - 8 - 2 - 29 - 24 Alessandro Florenzi ITA 11/03/1991 24 - - - 5 1 14 2 11 1 14 1 48 Salih Uçan TUR 06/01/1994 21 - - - 1 - 3 - 1 - 8 1 52 Lorenzo Di Livio ITA 11/01/1997 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 53 Christian D'Urso ITA 26/07/1997 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Forwards 9 Edin Džeko BIH 17/03/1986 29 - - - 4 2 13 3 34 9 58 17 10 Francesco Totti ITA 27/09/1976 39 - - - - - 3 1 55 17 95 38 11 Mohamed Salah EGY 15/06/1992 23 - - - 4 1 11 5 12 3 40 9 27 Gervinho CIV 27/05/1987 28 - - - 3 1 11 6 20 6 44 13 92 Edoardo Soleri ITA 19/10/1997 18 - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 93 Marco Tumminello ITA 06/11/1998 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Coach - Rudi Garcia FRA 20/02/1964 51 - - - 5 - - - 22 - 52 - 6 AS Roma - FC BATE Borisov Wednesday 9 December 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome FC BATE Borisov Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.