Opposition Focus | Ten things to know about Roma

Sunday evening sees a headline clash in the Italian capital, as Juventus face Roma in a battle to secure Champions League football next season.

The Bianconeri currently sit six points above their opponents who lie in fifth-place, and with only four matchdays remaining, Sunday's clash at the Olimpico Stadium is worth a very important three points. 

Ahead of the 20:45 CEST kick-off, here are ten things to know about the Giallorossi.

1. Roma won their last home match against Juventus in Serie A (1-0, 5 March 2023) and in the 2000s have only managed to beat the Old Lady twice in a row at the Olimpico in the league, between 2015 and 2017.
2. The Giallorossi have never repeated the same result twice in a row in their last eight Serie A games (W4, D3, L1), after winning five of their first six league games under the guidance of Daniele De Rossi (L1).
3. Sunday’s hosts lost their last home match in Serie A (against Bologna) and have not had two home defeats in a row in the competition since November 2022 (against Napoli and Lazio in that case).
4. Considering only the matches between the top five teams currently in the standings, Roma are the only one not to have collected even a point, with seven defeats in as many matches of this kind faced so far in this championship.
5. Roma is the team that has scored the most goals in the last 15 minutes in the league so far this seaosnm(20, including one on the last matchday, to draw 2-2 with Napoli).
6. No team has more different scorers than Roma in Serie A this season: there are 16 different Giallorossi scorers, compared to 13 for Juventus.
7. Paulo Dybala – who spent seven seasons at Juventus from 2015 to 2022, with 293 appearances and 115 goals in all competitions – is the only Serie A player who in the last two seasons has scored at least 25 goals and provided at least 15 assists, for a total of 40 active participations in just 50 league appearances in that period.
8. Gianluca Mancini has scored four headed goals this season: no defender has done better this season in the top five European leagues (Lucas Martínez Quarta, Keven Schlotterbeck and Gabriel Magalhães also have four).
9. Tommaso Baldanzi's last goal in Serie A was against Juventus, on 27 January 2024, wearing the Empoli shirt. He could become the second player to score against the Bianconeri with two different shirts in a single Serie A championship after Nicola Amoruso in 2009/10 (with Parma and Atalanta).
10. Leandro Paredes is the player who has received the highest number of yellow cards this Serie A season: 14.