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The journey in Europe of Mourinho's Roma continues at the estadio Municipal de Anoeta in San Sebastian, for sponsorship reasons also known as Real Arena, where he will try to make the first leg victory fruitful, which came at the Olimpico with a dry 2-0 to Real Sociedad.
The Giallorossi, however, must face the disappointment of the last round of Serie A, where they collected a home defeat (4-3) against Sassuolo, although they remain in the race for one of the first four places that guarantees participation in the next Champions League.
On the other hand, Real Sociedad drew (1-1) at Mallorca in the last round of La Liga, a point served anyway to remain in third place in the company of Atletico Madrid at 45. And they have lost their last two Europa League matches, against Manchester United in the group stage and Roma in the first leg; The Spaniards have not suffered three consecutive defeats in European competition since 2013, in the group stage of the Champions League.
Looking at the statistics: Roma have gone through the round on the last two occasions in which they have won the first leg in the knockout phase of the Europa League, one of them against a Spanish team (passage of the round with the aggregate score of 4-1 against Villarreal in 2016/17).