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Mission achieved for Gian Piero Gasperini’s Roma. The Giallorossi aspect brings house a optimistic consequence from the match on Panathinaikos’ discipline and secures direct qualification to the Europa League playoffs.

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Regardless of main difficulties as a result of absences and Mancini’s direct crimson card within the 14th minute of the primary half, the Giallorossi react and safe their second consecutive 1-1 draw after the one in opposition to Milan within the league—a consequence that permits Gasp’s group to stay among the many high eight within the standings and fly on to the knockout part.

As we talked about, Roma’s match was affected by Mancini’s critical mistake: he fouled Pantovic and stopped a transparent goal-scoring alternative. The referee initially confirmed a yellow card however then modified his thoughts after the OFR and despatched off the Giallorossi participant within the 14th minute of the primary half.

With a person benefit, Panathinaikos capitalizes on one other Giallorossi error: Ghilardi presents the ball to Taborda, who gratefully scores the 1-0 by beating debutant Gollini.

Roma’s response comes from Ziolkowski, who scores the 1-1 and presents the Giallorossi direct qualification to the Europa League spherical of 16.

Angelino is again 🔙

Angelino returns to the sphere for Roma, taking the place of Tsimikas.

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The Spanish full-back steps again onto the pitch for the primary time since December 11, when he performed 5 minutes in opposition to Rangers.

💥 FIRST purpose for Ziolkowski, Roma equalize and NOW the spherical of 16

Ziolkowski breaks his duck, and Roma earn a draw regardless of being a person down. The Giallorossi discover the equalizer with the Polish defender’s first purpose.

On Pisilli’s cross, Ziolkowski dives in and beats Lafont, making it 1-1: Roma returns to eighth place, reclaiming a spot within the spherical of 16.

😍 Debut for Della Rocca

Mattia Della Rocca makes his first-ever look for Roma’s senior group.

The 2006-born attacking midfielder from the Primavera comes on for Pellegrini and wears quantity 75: that is his first official match with the Giallorossi after the pleasant in opposition to Milan in Perth below De Rossi’s administration.

😱 Ghilardi SHOCK Present and Taborda purpose: Roma TRAILING

Down to 10 males after Mancini’s sending off, Roma falls behind within the second half.

Clumsy mistake by Ghilardi, who makes a nasty play and places Taborda again in play, clearly offside: the Argentine recovers the ball, cuts inside on his proper, and beats Gollini.

Roma drops out of the highest eight within the standings, overtaken by Bologna: in the intervening time, Gasp’s group, penalized by purpose distinction, can be within the playoffs.

⚠️ Roma, what a RISK! Pana hit the crossbar with Katris!

Roma dangers falling behind however is saved by the crossbar.

Within the thirty seventh minute, Panathinaikos tries with a curling right-footed shot from exterior the field by Katris, who hits the crossbar with Gollini overwhelmed.

🟥 RED CARD for Mancini, Roma all the way down to 10 within the fifteenth minute

Within the thirteenth minute, Roma is lowered to 10 males. On Lafont’s lengthy ball, Pantovic does effectively to make use of his physique in opposition to Mancini.

The Roma defender has to intervene and commits a foul, stopping the opposing striker: the referee first reveals a yellow card after which a crimson after the OFR.

Mancini is incredulous after the crimson card and, simply earlier than leaving the sphere, stopped on the bench to rewatch the incident on Gasperini’s employees’s iPad.

💥 Roma instantly DANGEROUS

Good begin from Roma, who look harmful from the opening minutes.

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The primary try comes from Tsimikas, with Lafont making the save. The previous Fiorentina goalkeeper then makes a mistake along with his ft and serves Soulé, however Pellegrini fails to capitalize.

From the ensuing nook, El Aynaoui tries his luck however his shot is blocked by the protection.

🔙 Benitez VS Gasp 11 years later

The Europa League conflict between Panathinaikos and Roma is a reunion for coaches Benitez and Gasperini.

The final time was January 26, 2015, 11 years in the past, in a Serie A match between Napoli and Genoa.

🔥 Massara: “Carrasco ❌ Dybala? Exams tomorrow”

Earlier than the Panathinaikos-Roma match, Frederic Massara spoke to Sky Sport.

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“Carrasco is certainly off the desk. Sulemana? There are a lot of names circulating and we’ll see, there are only a few hours left, if there will likely be alternatives that may assist all of the groups.”

“Dybala? It was extra prudent to not ship him on. We’ll do every little thing tomorrow. I need to say we’re not notably apprehensive.”

🤝 Twinning and banners: “Historical past unites us”

The match between Panathinaikos and Roma is a chance to resume the twinning between the 2 units of followers. Supporters of each groups posed along with the banner “Fratres aeterni”.

Contained in the stadium, the Panathinaikos curva displayed a banner devoted to their Romanisti pals: “Past brotherhood, historical past unites us”.

In flip, the Giallorossi displayed the identical banner, with the writing in Greek.

🙏 Minute of silence: the explanation

On the event of Panathinaikos-Roma, a minute of silence will likely be noticed earlier than kickoff in reminiscence of the PAOK Thessaloniki followers who misplaced their lives in a street accident in Romania whereas touring to Lyon to help their group away from house.

✅ The OFFICIAL line-ups

PANATHINAIKOS (3-4-3): Lafont; Palmer-Brown, Ingason, Touba; Katris, Bakasetas, Siopis, Kyriakopoulos; Taborda, Pantovic, Zaroury. Coach: Benitez.

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ROMA (3-4-2-1): Gollini; Mancini, Ziolkowski, Ghilardi; Celik, Cristante, El Aynaoui, Tsimikas; Pisilli; Soulé, Pellegrini. Coach: Gasperini.

This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.

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