Roma vs Real Madrid - prediction, team news, lineups

Reconvening with Roma successful the Champions League, 15-time winners Real Madrid volition sojourn Stadio Olimpico connected Wednesday.

For the 2nd clip this term, Madrid brag Jose Mourinho indispensable look a erstwhile club, arsenic Los Blancos effort to widen their dominance implicit the Giallorossi.

Match preview

While they were acold from convincing connected matchday one, Real Madrid started their latest Champions League run successful acquainted style, claiming maximum points connected location turf.

Having suffered without the ball, conceded respective chances and benefited from 2 glaring errors, the Spanish giants inactive bushed Inter Milan, acknowledgment to goals from Kylian Mbappe and Federico Valverde.

Madrid had kicked off La Liga with 3 consecutive wins, but they suffered defeats to Real Betis and metropolis rivals Atletico Madrid earlier the planetary break, ramping up the unit connected Saturday's crippled against Villarreal.

It was a adjacent contention astatine the Bernabeu, but Los Blancos eked retired a 1-0 win, with Yan Diomande scoring his archetypal Madrid extremity earlier Vinicius Junior was sent off - a determination loudly protested by Mourinho and co.

Already six points disconnected the gait being acceptable by league leaders Barcelona - this season's archetypal Clasico is coming up - they indispensable swiftly power absorption to Europe.

After Inter past month, Mourinho present faces different reunion, having led Roma from 2021 to 2024. During that time, they underwhelmed successful Serie A but won the inaugural Conference League, past reached the Europa League final.

The familiarity does not extremity there: Madrid person met Roma 12 times and pb the head-to-head by rather a margin, with 8 wins to 3 truthful far. 

Though the astir caller gathering was 8 years ago, Madrid person won each of the past 4 without conceding - positive 5 of six anterior encounters successful Rome.

Roma precocious ended their seven-season lack from the Champions League with a gritty 1-1 gully distant to Fenerbahce - yet different of Mourinho's aged clubs.

European Cup runners-up successful 1984, the Italian broadside booked their comeback by finishing 3rd successful Serie A past term, capping a memorable archetypal twelvemonth successful complaint for Gian Piero Gasperini.

A Europa League victor with Atalanta, 'Gasp' besides has plentifulness of acquisition astatine the elite level, having mislaid conscionable 4 of his past 24 Champions League radical oregon league-phase fixtures.

His existent nine person made an unbeaten commencement to the caller Serie A season, posting 4 consecutive wins earlier being held to consecutive draws by imaginable rubric rivals Como and Inter.

Though they trailed location acold down the Scudetto winners past term, some Roma and Como gatecrashed Italy's apical four, and the brace played retired an aggravated goalless stalemate connected Sunday.

Gasperini's squad had been pressing for maximum points, but prima striker Donyell Malen saw reddish for a mistimed lunge, and their backs were against the partition for astir of the last 40 minutes astatine Stadio Sinigaglia.

While frustrating, that inactive near the Giallorossi successful 3rd - wrong 2 points of Inter and metropolis rivals Lazio - and they tin present question a archetypal Champions League success.

Before their seven-year exile from UEFA's apical competition, Roma had won 8 of their past 9 location games, and Stadio Olimpico was besides a fortress arsenic they reached successive European finals successful 2022 and 2023.

However, they person precocious suffered 3 defeats from their past 5 location matches successful Europe - much than crossed the erstwhile 38 - including a 4-3 knockout nonaccomplishment to Bologna successful past season's Europa League.

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Team News

Eder Militao, Ferland Mendy, Rodrygo and Raul Asencio are unavailable for Real Madrid, but Dean Huijsen - who erstwhile spent a fewer months connected indebtedness astatine Roma - volition beryllium eligible aft serving a home suspension.

Furthermore, Mourinho tin telephone upon midfield trio Eduardo Camavinga, Arda Guler and Bernardo Silva, each of whom are backmost from UEFA bans.

Vinicius Junior volition soon beryllium suspended successful La Liga, but helium tin play connected Wednesday evening: with 26 Champions League assists, the Brazilian winger is conscionable 1 down Cristiano Ronaldo's nine record.

At the property of 27 years 298 days, Mbappe should go the youngest antheral to scope 100 appearances successful the competition. He would bushed Lionel Messi's grounds (28 years 84 days), which was really acceptable against Roma successful 2015.

Like Vini Jr, Roma's apical scorer is facing a home ban, but Malen volition beryllium acceptable to commencement successful midweek. Incidentally, some the Dutch striker and his spouse Paulo Dybala person mislaid a Champions League last against Real Madrid.

In midfield, it remains to beryllium seen if Bryan Cristante tin instrumentality from the genu occupation that forced him retired of Italy's Nations League squad and Sunday's crippled against Como.

The hosts' first-choice goalkeeper has decidedly been ruled out, arsenic Mile Svilar precocious fractured a toe; aft keeping a cleanable expanse connected his archetypal Serie A quality for 2 years, Pier Luigi Gollini volition deputise again.

Roma imaginable starting lineup:

Gollini; Mancini, Ndicka, Hermoso; Molina, Kone, De Roon, Wesley; Dybala, Soule; Malen

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Courtois; Dumfries, Konate, Rudiger, Carreras; Valverde, Bernardo; Guler, Bellingham, Vinicius; Mbappe

We say: Roma 1-2 Real Madrid 

Including a fortunate triumph implicit Inter past month, Real Madrid person won 20 of their past 22 matches against Italian clubs, and that inclination volition proceed successful Rome.

Though the Olimpico is bound to beryllium bouncing for the sojourn of European royalty, Roma's corporate spot whitethorn beryllium undone by Madrid's idiosyncratic class.

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