Roma vs. Athletic Bilbao | Europa League | League Stage | Pre Match
Roma vs. Athletic Bilbao
INSIGHTS
Pre Match
1
This is the first ever meeting in major European competition between Roma and Athletic Club. The Basque outfit will be the 10th different Spanish club Roma have faced, with the Italian outfit winning just one of their last eight against such opposition (D3 L4).
2
This will be Athletic Club’s first meeting with an Italian side since November 2016, a 3-2 win vs Sassuolo in the UEFA Europa League group stage. They’ve won just one of their nine away games against Italian sides in all competitions (D3 L5).
3
Roma have lost just three of their last 18 UEFA Europa League matches (W9 D6), although two of those defeats came in last season’s campaign – 0-1 against Brighton and Hove Albion in the round of 16 and 0-2 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the semi-final.
4
Athletic Club lost their last three European matches in the 2017-18 UEFA Europa League, and could lose four consecutive European matches for the first time in their history.
5
Only Amine Harit and Jonathan Clauss (6) provided more assists in the UEFA Europa League last term than Roma’s Stephan El Shaarawy (5), with El Shaarawy’s five assists being the most any Roma player has provided on record (since 2006/07) in a major European campaign (excl. qualifiers).
