Tottenham vs AS Roma prediction: EUROPE: Europa League – League phase betting tips on match 2024-11-27 20:00.
[p]Claudio Ranieri will make a long-awaited return to England when Roma visit Tottenham for their first competitive H2H. Tottenham had been living up to their status as one of the pre-season Europa League title favourites up until their matchday four trip to Galatasaray (L 3-2), which proved to be their first blunder of the league stage despite registering their third 2+ goal haul. [/p]
[p]The goals piled up again when they continued to baffle football fans by subjecting Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola to the biggest home losing margin of his entire career (4-0). But with Spurs also ceding Ipswich and Crystal Palace their first Premier League wins of the season, it’s hard to predict which Tottenham will turn up when, without injured starting goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, they attempt to record just their third UEL victory over an Italian club at the ninth attempt (W2, D4, L2). [/p]
[p]Visiting 2022/23 Europa League runners-up Roma may appear unlikely to go one step better this season after winning just one of their first four league phase matches (D2, L1). But that’s precisely what they did in the 2022/23 group stage before winning their final two matches against HJK (2-1 away) and Legia Warsaw (3-1 home) to reach the knockout round play-offs and beyond. [/p]
[p]They got to the 2022/23 final in spite of some very indifferent travelling form which has continued into 2024/25. Roma have won just one of their last 12 UEL away games played outside of Italy (D6, L5), and even that was away to then-winless Moldovan club Sheriff Tiraspol, so a phenomenal effort will be required to overcome Tottenham’s home form. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Dominic Solanke has a habit of scoring and/or assisting in consecutive games, which is good news for Tottenham after he set up Pedro Porro’s strike against Manchester City. Roma’s Stephan El Shaarawy scored for Monaco against Tottenham in both H2Hs of the 2015/16 UEL group stage, and his Serie A brace immediately after his last UEL outing will surely drive him to pursue his eighth UEL goal. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: There have been over 2.5 goals in 12 of Tottenham’s last 14 games in all competitions. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Aaron Murphy[/i][/p]