Parma vs Roma - prediction, team news, lineups

Continuing their quest for Champions League football, Roma volition sojourn Parma connected Sunday evening, arsenic Serie A's top-four contention nears its finale.

Having taken afloat vantage of their rivals slipping up past week, the Giallorossi are wrong touching region of a spot astatine Europe's apical table.

Match preview

New Italian champions Inter Milan person booked their spot, with Napoli and AC Milan good acceptable to articulation them, truthful Roma are battling Juventus and Como to assertion Serie A's last Champions League place.

After the second brace some drew past weekend, the Giallorossi responded with an emphatic 4-0 decision of Fiorentina connected Monday, leaving them conscionable 1 constituent shy of the apical four.

Though main antheral Donyell Malen failed to find the target, Roma played with the attacking cohesion usually associated with caput manager Gian Piero Gasperini, who precocious won a large powerfulness conflict successful the capital.

The departure of manager Claudio Ranieri has intelligibly strengthened Gasperini's presumption successful the dugout, arsenic helium tries to replicate a decennary of unprecedented occurrence with Atalanta.

Though his squad look a reasonably straightforward run-in, it does diagnostic a Derby della Capitale against Lazio, truthful determination volition beryllium unit not to driblet immoderate points connected Sunday. 

Still trailing fourth-placed Juventus - and lone 2 points wide of Como - they volition purpose to proceed a prolonged purple spot successful beforehand of goal.

Fuelled by Malen's objective finishing and clever nexus play, Roma person scored successful their past twelve league matches, averaging 2.1 goals per crippled - lone Inter person fared amended during that period.

However, earlier heading to Emilia-Romagna, they stay wildly inconsistent connected the road, having some won and mislaid 8 times truthful acold - and fractional those defeats person travel from their past six distant days.

Recent past volition beryllium connected the visitors' side, though, arsenic Parma person mislaid each 3 meetings since returning to Serie A by an 8-1 aggregate scoreline.

Still threatened by relegation erstwhile they were beaten 2-1 successful October's reverse fixture, overmuch has changed implicit the consequent months, and Carlos Cuesta's squad are already 'on the beach'.

Now occupying 12th place, the Emilian nine precocious sealed top-flight endurance by winning back-to-back games without conceding. 

After beating some Udinese and Pisa 1-0, they were guests astatine Inter's rubric enactment past weekend, erstwhile a 2-0 decision astatine San Siro ended their four-match unbeaten streak.

Still lone 30, rookie manager Cuesta is enjoying an awesome debut run astatine elder level, and his broadside person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 5 location fixtures.

While they mean beneath 1 extremity per game, Parma thin to support things choky astatine the different end, but Roma volition surely enactment them done a pugnacious trial this weekend.

Parma Serie A form:

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Roma Serie A form:

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Team News

In summation to Evan Ferguson, whose play was ended prematurely by an ankle injury, Roma are inactive missing Lorenzo Pellegrini, Bryan Zaragoza and Artem Dovbyk.

Stephan El Shaarawy (adductor) and reserve goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini (hip) person trained separately owed to insignificant muscular problems, but neither has been ruled retired of Sunday's game. 

A revelation since arriving midway done January, with 11 goals from his archetypal 15 Serie A appearances, Malen volition pb the visitors' attack.

Though Paulo Dybala is acceptable again, Matias Soule and Niccolo Pisilli are favourites to enactment the Dutch striker, peculiarly aft the second scored against Fiorentina past clip out.

Meanwhile, Parma's main antheral is Mateo Pellegrino, who has registered 8 league goals this season.

Cuesta mostly prefers to brace Pellegrino with Gabriel Strefezza successful a 3-5-2 formation, though French guardant Nesta Elphege has scored successful 2 of his past 3 appearances.

The hosts person an astir afloat squad available, arsenic lone Benjamin Cremaschi and semipermanent absentee Matija Frigan are presently sidelined.

Parma imaginable starting lineup:

Suzuki; Circati, Troilo, Ndiaye; Delprato, Keita, Nicolussi Caviglia, Bernabe, Valeri; Strefezza, Pellegrino

Roma imaginable starting lineup:

Svilar; Mancini, Ndicka, Hermoso; Celik, Cristante, Kone, Wesley; Soule, Pisilli; Malen

We say: Parma 0-1 Roma

Although Parma are good organised and tin frustrate Italy's apical teams, Roma person recovered a bully bushed and volition beryllium much motivated than their mid-table hosts.

Gasperini present has respective attacking weapons astatine his disposal, whereas Cuesta cannot telephone upon specified prime successful the last third.

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