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At 18 pm at the Olympic stadium Roma-Sampdoria is staged. The first leg ended 0-1 for the Giallorossi. Out of 146 official matches played so far, Roma have won 60 times, Sampdoria 47 and draws have been 39. The two clearest results in history were 6-1 for Roma in 1960 and 5-0 for Magica in 1951.

Here Rome

José Mourinho's side advanced to the Europa League round of 2 against Real Sociedad by winning 0-0 in the first leg and drawing 0-1 in the second leg. In the league, however, the Giallorossi come from two defeats, the 0-3 in the derby against Lazio and the 4-47 at home against Sassuolo. In the standings, Roma is fifth with 7 points, only one less than Milan. The race for the Champions League is still open, but it is important not to waste points against Sampdoria in penultimate place. In recent days, the Portuguese coach has started working with the first players returning from commitments with their respective national teams such as Pellegrini, Spinazzola, Rui Patricio, Ibanez and Tahirovic. The last to arrive was Paulo Dybala, who threw Montiel into the net in Argentina's 0-<> win against Curacao. Karsdorp will remain in the infirmary, on all the others Mourinho could decide at the last minute.

Here Sampdoria

Despite the 3-1 victory against Verona, the blucerchiati are penultimate with 15 points, nine less than Spezia in fourth last place, with 11 days to go. The pursuit of salvation is not the simplest, even if Dejan Stanković could still surprise. Apart from the victory against the Gialloblù, in the league the Ligurians come from two defeats, 4-2 with Juventus and 1-0 with Lazio, and a draw, 0-0 with Salernitana. "We must honour the Sampdoria shirt and we will fight until the end. We do not give up because we are a united group - underlined Dejan Stankovic, coach blucerchiato -. The boys gave everything in the last game and wanted to give a victory to our fans, to our 'first man', our stands. We still have to make many sacrifices and it takes a lot of humility to defend Sampdoria until the end."