Italian Serie A

FT Friday, March 4, 2016
Fiorentina WDWLD 1
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AS Roma WWLWW 4
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FIO101
ROMA314
Stadio Olimpico · 36,263 att.

Match Report

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Mohamed Salah at the double as Roma show desire to stay in title hunt

Mohamed Salah scored twice as Roma moved to within two points of second-placed Napoli with a thumping 4-1 win over Serie A rivals Fiorentina.

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Team Stats

18
Fouls
19
3
Yellow Cards
3
0
Red Cards
0
2
Offsides
1
4
Corner Kicks
5
3
Saves
0
48.3
Possession
51.7
11
SHOTS
14
1
ON GOAL
7
0.1
On Target %
0.5
1
Penalty Goals
0
1
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
366
Accurate Passes
382
447
Passes
475
0.8
Pass Completion %
0.8
0
Accurate Crosses
4
16
Crosses
17
0.0
Cross %
0.2
67
Long Balls
51
35
Accurate Long Balls
26
0.5
Long Balls %
0.5
2
Blocked Shots
0
14
Effective Tackles
20
20
Tackles
22
0.7
Tackle %
0.9
0
Interceptions
0
9
Effective Clearances
13
10
Clearances
18

Head to Head

FIO leads series 2-1-2

Lineups

ROMA · 4-3-1-2

  1. 25Wojciech SzczesnyG
  2. 2Antonio RüdigerCD-L
  3. 44Kostas ManolasCD-R
  4. 3Lucas DigneLB
  5. 24Alessandro FlorenziRB
  6. 22Stephan El ShaarawyM
  7. 20Seydou KeitaCM
  8. 8Diego PerottiAM
  9. 4Radja NainggolanLM
  10. 15Miralem PjanicRM
  11. 11Mohamed SalahCF-R

Substitutes

  1. 13Maicon
  2. 33Emerson
  3. 21William Vainqueur
  4. 87Ervin Zukanovic
  5. 35Vasilis Torosidis
  6. 48Salih Ucan
  7. 6Kevin Strootman
  8. 9Edin Dzeko
  9. 14Iago Falque
  10. 26Morgan De Sanctis
  11. 5Leandro Castán
  12. 10Francesco Totti

FIO · 4-2-3-1

  1. 12Ciprian TatarusanuG
  2. 13Davide AstoriCD-L
  3. 2Gonzalo RodríguezCD-R
  4. 28Marcos AlonsoLB
  5. 32Facundo RoncagliaRB
  6. 72Josip IlicicAM
  7. 6Tino CostaLM
  8. 8Matías VecinoRM
  9. 9Nikola KalinicF
  10. 20Borja ValeroAM-L
  11. 10Federico BernardeschiAM-R

Substitutes

  1. 5Milan BadeljSUB
  2. 30Khouma BabacarSUB
  3. 14Matías FernándezSUB
  4. 4Nenad TomovicSUB
  5. 27Cristian TelloSUB
  6. 34Giacomo SatalinoSUB
  7. 24Luca LezzeriniSUB
  8. 16Jakub BlaszczykowskiSUB
  9. 23Manuel PasqualSUB
  10. 26Panagiotis KoneSUB

Timeline

  1. 22' Goal! Roma 1, Fiorentina 0. Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
  2. 25' Goal! Roma 2, Fiorentina 0. Mohamed Salah (Roma) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Diego Perotti.
  3. 29' Substitution, Fiorentina. Cristian Tello replaces Borja Valero because of an injury.
  4. 34' Substitution, Fiorentina. Milan Badelj replaces Matias Vecino because of an injury.
  5. 38' Goal! Roma 3, Fiorentina 0. Diego Perotti (Roma) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stephan El Shaarawy.
  6. 40' Milan Badelj (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  7. 42' Mohamed Salah (Roma) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  8. 44' Miralem Pjanic (Roma) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  9. 45'+3' Goal! Roma 3, Fiorentina 1. Josip Ilicic (Fiorentina) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
  10. 58' Goal! Roma 4, Fiorentina 1. Mohamed Salah (Roma) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a through ball.
  11. 62' Substitution, Roma. William Vainqueur replaces Diego Perotti.
  12. 68' Substitution, Fiorentina. Matías Fernández replaces Josip Ilicic.
  13. 76' Substitution, Roma. Francesco Totti replaces Stephan El Shaarawy.
  14. 80' Federico Bernardeschi (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  15. 86' Substitution, Roma. Edin Dzeko replaces Mohamed Salah.
  16. 89' Tino Costa (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  17. 90'+1' Radja Nainggolan (Roma) is shown the yellow card.

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