Roma revamp again with Bogdan Lobont in goal and Bojan Krkic in attack for their Champions League showdown with Napoli this evening.

Roma revamp again with Bogdan Lobont in goal and Bojan Krkic in attack for their Champions League showdown with Napoli this evening.

The two teams go into the Stadio Olimpico at 19.45 UK time and it is the Giallorossi’s last chance to stay in the hunt for third place.

Luis Enrique is under immense pressure after two consecutive defeats and banners were hung at the training ground urging the Spanish Coach to “go home.”

He has to do without a series of players for this game, as Erik Lamela, Pablo Daniel Osvaldo and Daniele De Rossi are all suspended.

Maarten Stekelenburg, Juan and Nicolas Burdisso are injured, so Lobont surprisingly steps between the posts on his comeback from a sprained knee.

There were reports Marquinho would be used as a left-back, but he is in midfield with Rodrigo Taddei taking that position, while Bojan is given a rare start with Francesco Totti and Fabio Borini.

Napoli miss Hugo Campagnaro, Marco Donadel and Antonio Rosati, while Ezequiel Lavezzi is still not fit to start, but Federico Fernandez takes over in defence.

Goran Pandev returns from his three-match ban, but is not in the starting XI, as Marek Hamsik is the sole supply line for Edinson Cavani.

Roma: Lobont; Rosi, Kjaer, Heinze, Taddei; Pjanic, Gago, Marquinho; Borini, Totti, Bojan

Roma bench:  Curci, José Angel, Greco, Simplicio, Perrotta, Piscitella, Tallo

Napoli: De Sanctis; Fernandez, Cannavaro, Aronica; Maggio, Gargano, Inler, Dzemaili, Zuniga; Hamsik; Cavani

Napoli bench: Colombo, Fideleff, Britos, Dossena, Vargas, Pandev, Lavezzi

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