Edin Dzeko is on the bench for Roma’s crucial Champions League trip to Bayer Leverkusen.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), follow the build-up and action on our LIVEBLOG.
Rudi Garcia has remarkable only won one Champions League game on the Roma bench and that was the first against CSKA Moscow in September 2014.
A 3-2 defeat to BATE Borisov was a huge setback for their hopes of qualification, so this is a must-win fixture.
Edin Dzeko is on the bench for Roma’s crucial Champions League trip to Bayer Leverkusen.
It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), follow the build-up and action on our LIVEBLOG.
Rudi Garcia has remarkable only won one Champions League game on the Roma bench and that was the first against CSKA Moscow in September 2014.
A 3-2 defeat to BATE Borisov was a huge setback for their hopes of qualification, so this is a must-win fixture.
Dzeko returns after a month out with a knee ligament injury, but is only fit for the bench, while Francesco Totti, Seydou Keita and Kevin Strootman are still sidelined.
Gervinho and Mohamed Salah therefore are confirmed in attack with Alessandro Florenzi in a more advanced role than usual.
Antonio Rudiger makes his comeback from a knee injury in a back four.
Roma haven’t won a Champions League away fixture since November 2010 at Basel, followed by three draws from six attempts.
Stefan Kiessling failed a fitness test and is not even on the Bayer Leverkusen bench, so Hakan Calhanoglu pulls the strings behind lone striker Chicharito Hernandez.
Omer Toprak makes his second appearance since tearing thigh tendons in early August and is again moved to midfield during his recovery.
Bayer Leverkusen: Leno; Donati, Tah, Papadopoulos, Wendell; Bellarabi, Omer Toprak, Kramer, Kampl; Calhanoglu; Hernandez
Bayer Leverkusen bench: Kresic, Andre Ramalho, Jedvaj, Boenisch, Yurchenko, Brandt, Mehmedi
Roma: Szczesny; Torosidis, Manolas, Rüdiger, Digne; Pjanic, De Rossi, Nainggolan; Florenzi, Gervinho, Salah
Roma bench: De Sanctis, Castan, Maicon, Vainqueur, Dzeko, Iago Falque, Iturbe