AS Roma vs Liverpool – UEFA Champions League – Preview

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Sreya

AS Roma vs Liverpool – AS Roma hosts Liverpool at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome on 2nd May, Wednesday in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-finals.

AS Roma have been one of the revelations in Europe this season and even overcame a three-goal deficit against Barcelona to set up a meeting with Liverpool in the last four.

A 5-2 win for the English club has swayed the odds in favour of Jurgen Klopp’s side who have gone from strength to strength as seen in their triumph over Manchester City in the quarters.

Team News

Rick Karsdorp, Gregoire Defrel, Diego Perotti and Kevin Strootman are sidelined through injuries for AS Roma while the visitors will be without the injured Joel Matip, Emre Can, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Joseph Gomez and Adam Lallana.

AS Roma Possible Starting Lineup: Alisson, Alessandro Florenzi, Federico Fazio, Kostas Manolas, Aleksandar Kolarov, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Daniele de Rossi, Radja Nainggolan, Patrick Schick, Edin Dzeko, Stephen El Shaarawy.

Liverpool Possible Starting Lineup: Loris Karius, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dejan Lovren, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane.

“We want to reach the final. It is big. I really think we deserve to be here. If we get the result we need, we deserve to be in the final. But if Roma get through then they deserve it. If you want to win, you have to accept you might lose. You have to be brave. You have to be active.”

– Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool.

Contributor’s Pick

According to AS Roma vs Liverpool H2H Stats, AS Roma have won three and lost two of their last five matches against Liverpool. Liverpool have scored at least two goals in eight of their previous nine UEFA Champions League matches.

A 2-1 win for Liverpool is the most probable result tonight.