Roma lose Gervinho in the warm-up and Mohamed Salah on the bench in their Champions League decider against BATE Borisov.
It kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico at 19.45 GMT, follow the build-up and action on our LIVEBLOG.
The Giallorossi have been in crisis for several weeks with some dire results and fans sent boxes of carrots to the training ground calling their players ‘scared little rabbits.’
Roma lose Gervinho in the warm-up and Mohamed Salah on the bench in their Champions League decider against BATE Borisov.
It kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico at 19.45 GMT, follow the build-up and action on our LIVEBLOG.
The Giallorossi have been in crisis for several weeks with some dire results and fans sent boxes of carrots to the training ground calling their players ‘scared little rabbits.’
Tonight could be a pivotal moment in their campaign, as they could qualify for the Champions League Round of 16, get bumped into the Europa League or crash out of UEFA competition altogether.
They need a victory to be sure of continuing in the major tournament, but it won’t be easy because they lost 3-2 to BATE in Belarus.
Salah returns from an ankle injury he sustained during the derby against Lazio and is only ready for the bench.
Gervinho wa available to start despite suffering a relapse of his muscular problem in the 25-minute appearance against Torino at the weekend, but picked up yet another problem in the warm-up and makes way for Juan Manuel Iturbe.
Francesco Totti, Vasilis Torosidis and Kevin Strootman are sidelined, while Wojciech Szczesny is chosen as the goalkeeper.
BATE Borisov have been preparing all week at a training camp in Rome for this match and have no injury concerns.
The Belarus side need a victory and hope Bayer Leverkusen don’t beat Barcelona in order to continue in the Champions League.
Roma: Szczesny; Florenzi, Rudiger, Manolas, Digne; De Rossi, Nainggolan, Pjanic; Iturbe, Dzeko, Falque
Roma bench: De Sanctis, Castan, Maicon, Iturbe, Keita, Vainqueur, Salah
BATE: Chernik; Zhavnerchik, Polyakov, Milunovic, Mladenovic; Nikolic, Yablonski, Hleb; Stasevich, Gordeichuk, Mozolevski
BATE bench: Soroko, Dubra, Karnitski, Aleksievich, Olekhnovich, M Volodko, A Jevtic