Hellas Verona chase a first Serie A win against Roma in 24 years when they travel to the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday night (kick-off 21:45).
PROBABLE LINE-UPS
Roma (3-4-2-1): Pau Lopez; Mancini, Ibanez, Fazio; Bruno Peres, Diawara, Veretout, Kolarov; Zaniolo, Pellegrini; Dzeko.
Unavailable: Santon, Smalling
Verona (3-4-2-1): Silvestri; Rrahmani, Empereur, Günter; Faraoni, Amrabat, Veloso, Lazovic; Zaccagni, Verre; Stepinski.
Unavailable: Bocchetti, Borini, Danzi, Dawidowicz, Pazzini.
KEY STATISTICS
– Hellas Verona have won only nine of their 57 Serie A games against Roma, with 29 wins for the Giallorossi and 19 draws.
– Roma are unbeaten against Verona in the league since 1996 (W11, D5), with Carlos Bianchi as coach.
– In the three-point era, Roma are unbeaten at home against Verona, with seven wins (six of which with at least three goals scored) and a draw.
– Roma are one of two sides that have won all of their top flight matches against newly promoted teams this season (at level with Atalanta, 4/4): five out of five. The Giallorossi could record a 100% win ratio for the third season in a row.
– Roma have conceded 22 goals in the second half of this season, already one more than they had in the whole first half of the campaign (21).
– Verona are without a victory in their last three games (D2, L1), they last went four successive league games without a win in September 2019.
– Verona have conceded 10 of their last 11 league goals in the second half, four of them from 90th minute onwards.
– Since February, Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been directly involved in the more Serie A goals than any other Roma player – eight in nine appearances (five goals, three assists) – in the previous part of the season the Armenian player has been involved in only four goals in the league (also in nine appearances).
– Roma striker Edin Dzeko made his Serie A debut in August 2015 against Verona – he has scored two goals and provided one assist in five games with the Gialloblu.
– Verona striker Fabio Borini played his first 24 Serie A games with Roma, scoring nine goals – he has never scored against his former team (two previous matches, both with Milan).
Source: forzaitalianfootball.com