Two groups who started off their Uefa Europa Conference League campaign under new lead trainers in the passing stage prior to winning their gatherings and coming through three knockout rounds meet in the debut last as José Mourinho's Roma and Arne Slot's Feyenoord clash in Albanian capital Tirana.
Roma are looking for their most memorable triumph in a Uefa last, having lost their past two - against Liverpool in the 1984 European Cup and Inter in the 1991 Uefa Cup.
Feyenoord are offering to make it four successes out of four in major UEFAfinals, their initial three having gotten triumphs the 1970 European Cup (v Celtic) and the Uefa Cups of 1974 (vTottenham Hotspur) and 2002 (v Borussia Dortmund).
While Roma have lost two times in the Uefa Europa Conference League - both away to Norwegian side Bodø/Glimt - Feyenoord are undefeated starting from the beginning of the gathering stage.
The finalists are the two top-scoring groups in the opposition appropriate, Feyenoord having tracked down the net multiple times in their 12 games, one more than Roma.
They additionally gloat the opposition's best two individual marksmen, with Feyenoord's Cyriel Dessers on ten goals, one more than Tammy Abraham of Roma.
Regardless of taking just a single point off Bodø/Glimt in their two fall experiences, shockingly losing 6-1 away prior to drawing 2-2 at home, Roma pipped their Norwegian opponents to best position in Group C, hitting 18 goals - the greater part of any group in the gathering stage - prior to edging past Vitesse in the round of 16 (1-0 a, 1-1 h).
Matched again with Bodø/Glimt in the quarterfinals, Mourinho's group lost again in Norway, 2-1, however recuperated to win 4-0 in Rome. They then conquered Leicester City in the elimination round, drawing 1-1 away prior to winning 1-0 at home.
Feyenoord completed six focuses in front of Slavia Praha to top Group E undefeated and qualify straightforwardly for the round of16, where they added two additional triumphs in serenely discarding Partizan 8-3 on total (5-2 a, 3-1 h).
Space's side re-experienced the Czech bosses in the quarterfinal and crushed them 6-4 on total (3-3 h, 3-1 a)before defeating Marseille (3-2 h, 0-0 a) in the last four.
Past Meetings
There has been only one past Uefa challenge between the clubs, Roma winning 3-2 on total in the2014/15 Uefa Europa League round of 32 when they followed up a 1-1 first-leg draw at the Stadio Olimpico with an episode pressed 2-1 triumph in Rotterdam in which three players - one from Fred Rutten's Feyenoord, two from Rudi Garcia's Roma - were shipped off.
Roma's record in Uefa rivalry against Dutch clubs is W4 D4 L2. They have won each of the four of their past knockout ties against adversaries from the Netherlands, the most recent against Vitesse in this season's round of 16, and are unbeaten in their last seven games against Eredivisie sides, drawing every one of the four at home and winning every one of the three away.
Feyenoord have confronted Italian resistance in 14 Uefa experiences (W5 D4 L5). The end by Roma a long time back was their main total knockout loss by a Serie A side, the two different ties having both brought triumph, most strikingly in the elimination round of their victorious 2001/02 Uefa Cup crusade, when Bert van Marwijk's side disposed of Inter (1-0 a, 2-2 h).
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Roma
Roma completed seventh in Serie A last season, 29 focuses behind champions Inter, to turn into Italy's most memorable Uefa Europa Conference League delegates. In the wake of garnish their 2020/21 Uefa Europa League bunch, which included Young Boys, CFR Cluj and CSKA-Sofia, Paulo Fonseca's side disposed of Braga, Shakhtar Donetsk and Feyenoord's most despised rivals Ajax in the knockout stage, just to bow out to Manchester United in the elimination rounds.
Presently drove by another Portuguese coach, Mourinho, Roma won the two legs of their Uefa Europa Conference Leagueplay-off against Trabzonspor, and in spite of the fact that Bodø/Glimt got the better of them in their Group C straight on experiences, the Giallorossi took greatest focuses off both CSKA-Sofia (5-1 h, 3-2 a) and Zorya Luhansk (3-0 a, 4-0 h)to finish a point in front of their Norwegian opponents at the highest point of the gathering.
Abraham scored the unequivocal goal against both Vitesse and Leicester as well as opening the scoring in the second leg of the quarterfinal at home to Bodø/Glimt, in which Nicolò Zaniolo hit a full go-around. Roma's record in the opposition legitimate is W7 D3 L2.
While this is Roma's third appearance in a significant Uefa last, and first for a long time, it is Mourinho's fifth. He has been victorious in every one of the past four - with Porto in the 2003 Uefa Cup and 2004 Uefa Champions League, Interin the 2010 Uefa Champions League and Manchester United in the 2017 Uefa Europa League. He has, notwithstanding, lost two Uefa Super Cups.
Notwithstanding being hit for six by the two Manchester United and Bodø/Glimt on late trips abroad, Roma have tracked down the net in every one of their last 14 European apparatuses outside the Italian capital (W9 D1 L4).
The last time they neglected to score out and about in Europe was in their keep going experience an on nonpartisan area, when they lost 2-0 to Sevilla in the German city of Duisburg in the 2019/20 Uefa Europa League round of 16.
This is Roma's most memorable Uefa game in Albania.
Feyenoord
Fifth in the Dutch Eredivisie last season, likewise 29 focuses falling behind financially of the bosses, Ajax, Feyenoord got their fifth European gathering stage appearance in six seasons by coming through three Uefa Europa Conference League qualifying adjusts to the detriment of Drita, Luzern and Elfsborg.
The Rotterdam club had neglected to gain further headway in four progressive European gathering stage cooperations until this season, most as of late completing third in their Uefa Europa League segment last term under Dick Advocaat, yet had no such challenges with Slot in charge in Uefa Europa Conference League Group E, taking four focuses off both Slavia (2-1 h, 2-2 a) and Maccabi Haifa (0-0 a, 2-1 h) and every one of the six off Union Berlin (3-1 h, 2-1 a) preceding placing 17 goals in all out past Partizan, Slavia and Marseille in the knockout stage. Feyenoord are undefeated in the opposition legitimate with eight successes and four draws.
This is Feyenoord's most memorable European last since they lifted the Uefa Cup for the second time quite a while back, overcoming Dortmund 3-2 at their own arena in Rotterdam with goals from Pierre van Hooijdonk (two) and Jon Dahl Tomasson.
Their main past major Uefa last on nonpartisan domain was their 2-1 win against Celtic in 1970, in spite of the fact that they lost the 2002 Uefa Super Cup 3-1 to Madrid in Monaco.
Feyenoord's record out and about in the Uefa Europa Conference League is W5 D3 L1, their only loss, home or away, in the opposition a 1-3 converse at Elfsborg in the second leg of the passing end of the season games after they had won 5-0in Rotterdam.
The Dutch club have made one past visit to Albania in Uefa club contest, attracting 0-0 against Partizani Tirana's Qemal Stafa Stadium - since crushed and supplanted at a similar area by the National Arena - in the main leg of the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup first round. Feyenoord won the second leg 1-0 in Rotterdam.
Past Uefa finals
Roma (W0 L2)
1984 European Cup 1-1 v Liverpool (aet; 3-4 on pens)
1991 Uefa Cup 1-2 agg v Inter
Feyenoord (W4 L1)
1970 European Cup 2-1 v Celtic (aet)
1970 European/South America Cup 3-2 agg v Estudiantes
1974 Uefa Cup 4-2 agg v Tottenham Hotspur
2002 Uefa Cup 3-2 v Borussia Dortmund
2002 Uefa Super Cup 1-3 v Real Madrid
Connections and Trivia
Roma's Dutch right-back Rick Karsdorp was a Feyenoord player from 2014 to 2017 preceding leaving for Italy and furthermore burned through 2019/20 back borrowed at the Rotterdam club. Over his two spells he showed up in all rivalries, scoring three goals.
Roma's Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Feyenoord's Reiss Nelson are both borrowed to their separate clubs from Arsenal.
Nelson and Abraham are previous England Under-21 colleagues, while the Feyenoord loanee likewise played with Roma's Henrikh Mkhitaryan at Arsenal in the last part of 2017/18.
Roma protector Marash Kumbulla has played two times for Albania at Tirana's National Arena - a 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifier against Poland (0-1) in October 2021 and a cordial against Georgia (0-0) in March this year.
Despite the fact that Roma have always lost a Uefa club rivalry, they were Inter-Cities Fairs Cup champs in 1961, beating Birmingham City 4-2 on total in the last (2-0 h, 2-2 a).
Dessers and Abraham have both scored something like once against every one of the rivals their groups have looked starting from the beginning of the gathering stage.
Penalty shoot-outs
Roma's record in four Uefa penalty shoot-outs is W1 L3:
4-2 v Norrköping, 1982/83 Uefa Cup second cycle 3-4 v Liverpool, 1983/84 European Champion Clubs' Cup last
3-4 v Real Zaragoza, 1986/87 European Cup Winners' Cup first round6-7 v Arsenal, 2008/09 Uefa Champions League round of 16
Feyenoord's record in two Uefa penalty shoot-outs is W2 L0:
5-3 v Sion, 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup second round
5-4 v PSV Eindhoven, 2001/02 Uefa Cup quarterfinal
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