Roma put their perfect record on the line against Benevento when they welcome them to the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday night (kick-off 20:45).
PROBABLE LINE-UPS
Roma (3-4-2-1): Mirante; Mancini, Kumbulla, Ibanez; Santon, Pellegrini, Veretout, Spinazzola; Pedro, Mkhitaryan; Dzeko.
Unavailable: Karsdorp, Pastore, Perotti, Zaniolo, Diawara, Smalling.
Benevento (4-3-2-1): Montipò; Letizia, Glik, Caldirola, Foulon; Dabo, Schiattarella, Ionita; Iago Falque, Caprari; Lapadula.
Unavailable: Barba, Moncini, Tello, Viola.
KEY STATISTICS
– Roma have won both their Serie A meetings against Benevento: 4-0 away in September 2017 and 5-2 at the Olimpico in February 2018. Only Lazio (11) have scored more top flight goals against Benevento than Roma (nine).
– Roma have won each of their last 23 league matches against promoted teams, which is a record in the competition.
– Roma have scored in each of their last 50 Serie A games against promoted teams, scoring 117 goals in the process (2.3 per match on average) – more than any other team in such meetings.
– Roma won 1-0 their last game against Udinese: they’ve never kept consecutive clean sheets in the league under Paulo Fonseca.
– Benevento won their last league game against Bologna (1-0) – only once have they won two Serie A matches in a row, between December 2017 and January 2018, under Roberto De Zerbi.
– Prior to Benevento, the last two newly-promoted sides to have won two of their first three Serie A games in a season were Verona and Livorno in 2013/14 – the last newly-promoted team to have won three of their first four in a season was Sampdoria in the 2012/13 campaign.
– Since Paulo Fonseca joined the club, no side has had more different scorers than Roma in Serie A (19, level with Inter).
– Benevento are the side against which Roma’s Edin Dzeko has the highest goals per game ratio (1.5) – however, he could fail to find the net in his first three Serie A games in a season for the first time with Roma.
– Roma’s Borja Mayoral is one of the four players born after 1/1/1997 to have scored at least three goals in each of the last three La Liga campaigns, level with Youssef En-Nesyri, Enes Ünal and Mikel Oyarzabal.
– Benevento’s Marco Sau has scored three Serie A goals against Roma – only against Genoa and Sassuolo has he scored more goals in the competition (four each).
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