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UEL | Slavia Prague 2-0 Roma: Crumble in Czechia

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2 years ago

4:07 am

Roma must struggle to the bitter finish for that treasured management of the Europa League group after his 2-0 defeat allowed Slavia Prague to catch them.

The Giallorossi needed to lock down qualification and prime spot, but additionally needed to sit up for Sunday’s Derby della Capitale with Lazio. Paulo Dybala was rested, with Nicola Zalewski, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Chris Smalling, Leonardo Spinazzola, Tammy Abraham and Marash Kumbulla injured. Slavia had been second after conceding two early targets on the Stadio Olimpico, however whereas Tomas Holes and Petr Sevcik returned, Matej Jurasek, Ivan Schranz, Taras Kacharaba and David Pech had been nonetheless on the remedy desk.

Jose Mourinho sat out the ultimate match in his UEFA touchline ban for insulting the referee after final season’s Europa League Closing.

It was an aggressive begin from the hosts, however Christos Zafeiris fired off course from distance and Vaclav Jurecka didn’t profit from a poor Evan Ndicka clearance.

Slavia Prague had an enormous probability on 27 minutes when Zafeiris crossed from the left, Mojmir Chytil had an exquisite first contact, solely to fireplace over on the flip from six yards.

The hosts ultimately took a deserved lead when Mile Svilar parried the Lukas Masopust free header from 12 yards, however solely so far as Chytil to tug it again from the by-line for the Jurecka tap-in, regardless of Ndicka being on the road.

Andrea Belotti’s angled drive was smothered on the close to publish, then Gianluca Mancini solely grazed his head to show the Leandro Paredes free kick large.

Zeki Celik went on a robust run, however wasted the end slightly than move to Lukaku, then Svilar obtained down for a incredible fingertip save, pushing the Lukas Provod angled drive around the far publish.

Roma threw on Paulo Dybala, who together with his first contact noticed a volley into the bottom bounce over the bar, however Slavia Prague doubled their lead when Masopust was given far an excessive amount of time and house outdoors the field to regulate and smash the right-foot end into the far backside nook.

That end result cancelled out the 2-0 win on the Olimpico, so the head-to-head document additionally turned similar.

Van Buren nearly obtained a 3rd for the hosts in stoppages, as he obtained away from Bryan Cristante to dink his end over Svilar, flashing throughout an empty internet to skim the far publish.

This defeat additionally implies that Romelu Lukaku’s document run of 14 consecutive Europa League video games on the right track is over.

To make issues worse, Servette beat Sheriff 2-1 and are on 4 factors, holding even second place unsure.

Slavia Prague 2-0 Roma

Jurecka 50 (S), Masopust 74 (S)