Garcia Declares Salah Ready For UEFA Champions League

The wheels have come off for Roma in recent weeks and their intensity has dipped noticeably since a 6-1 hammering by Barca and a miserable 2-0 defeat by Atalanta in Serie A. The scintillating attacking form they showed during the early portion of the season was absent against BATE and the Giallorossi wholly lacked the creativity and intensity required to break down the Belarusian side.

Roma sneaked through to the knockout stage of the Champions League after scraping a 0-0 draw at home to BATE.

“I’m in line with the vast majority of fans, who are great, they’re involved and they make us feel their passion”.

“I think (the fans) have a right to be frustrated, as they want to win games and see us play handsome football”. To advance despite a disappointing performance like this is important for us.

Wojciech Szczesny (right) is on loan from Arsenal to Roma.

Very tough one here, I couldnt take Roma at the price here, there is just no value in it. Instead I am taking the unders in what I think is going to be a tight and tense game.

Jeers and whistled rained down on Roma’s players even after their qualification – which also depended on the result of Barcelona’s home game with Bayer Leverkusen – was confirmed by the stadium announcer.

If BATE beat Roma for the second time in this campaign and Leverkusen do not win in Germany, the Belarusians will advance to the knockout stage for the first time.

Minutes after the restart Miralem Pjanic found Edin Dzeko with a short pass just outside the area but an alert Sergei Chernik was out quickly to block with his legs what was Roma’s best chance thus far.

It finally jolted the Olimpico into song, although Roma never really managed to lift a crowd of only 29,489 – many fans still staying away amid an ongoing boycott over recently-introduced security measures. We will have to dream for a long time before we have the chance of coming so close to qualifying again.