CL: Shakhtar flip Roma spherical

Cengiz Below had given Roma the half of-time lead in Ukraine, but Facundo Ferreyra and Fred gave Shakhtar Donetsk a 2-1 first leg consequence.

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This became as soon as the main leg within the Round of sixteen and took situation in Kharkiv, because the stadium in Donetsk became as soon as broken by the civil war. Shakhtar had knocked Napoli out of the Champions League, while the Giallorossi topped their workers earlier than Chelsea and Atletico Madrid. Darijo Srna became as soon as suspended after failing a doping take a look at and Maksum Malyshev became as soon as injured, while Alessandro Florenzi began no topic a flu worm and on-compose Cengiz Below bought his Champions League debut.

Each and every facets had early probabilities, as Aleksandar Kolarov did passable to halt a Fred faucet-in, then on a nook Edin Dzeko became as soon as denied from shut fluctuate by Andriy Pyatov.

Marlos lower within Kolarov and his unhealthy-shot went via Alisson’s legs, but the goalkeeper caught it with a trailing hand.

The Kostas Manolas free header from a nook became as soon as extensive, but even worse became as soon as Dzeko passing it to Pyatov at the head of a neatly-labored pass between Below and Diego Perotti.

Perotti lower within past two ideal for Dzeko’s feeble carry out to be charged down, then Rakitskiy made an acrobatic mid-air interception to halt Below sending Radja Nainggolan clear.

Dzeko became as soon as decisive within the head with a ideal abet, his crawl-rule pass sending Cengiz Below clear down the ideal and the carry out bounced off desperate Pyatov into the empty fetch. It became as soon as his fifth purpose in four aggressive games and a ideal formulation to brand his first ever Champions League appearance.

There became as soon as one other serious blow for Shakhtar sooner than the destroy, as defender Serhiy Kryvstov landed very badly on his ankle, spraining it visibly, and wanted to be stretchered off.

Straight after the restart, Shakhtar got their equaliser thanks to a wide defensive error. Florenzi, who had been in doubt to the last minute with a belly worm, did not lower out a via ball when caught too a long way upfield and Facundo Ferreyra sprinted past Manolas to fireside in.

Florenzi made a the same error moments later, then Marlos became as soon as came across unmarked from 10 yards fully to be denied by a spectacular Alisson assign alongside with his wrist.

The Brazilian goalkeeper out-did himself with an worthy extra beautiful assign, flying to claw a Taison strike one-handed out of the a long way high nook.

However, Alisson became as soon as at last crushed when Fred curled a free kick in off the underside of the crossbar, the keep the goalkeeper ideal couldn’t reach, to flip the game spherical fully.

The visibly ill Florenzi and Cengiz Below made formulation for Bruno Peres and Gerson, the Brazilian midfielder forcing two saves from Pyatov.

It became as soon as practically 3-1 to the hosts with the last kick of the game after one other defensive error, but Bruno Peres lifted his foot to clear off the motorway from Ferreyra.

The last time Roma lost a Champions League match after taking the lead became as soon as in 2011, also in opposition to Shakhtar Donetsk.

Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Roma

Cengiz Below Forty one (R), Ferreyra fifty two (S), Fred 71 (S)

Shakhtar Donetsk: Pyatov; Butko, Kryvtsov (Ordets Forty five), Rakitskiy, Ismaily; Fred, Stepanenko; Marlos, Taison, Bernard (Kovalenko ninety one); Ferreyra

Roma: Alisson; Florenzi (Peres seventy two), Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; De Rossi, Strootman; Cengiz Below (Gerson seventy two), Nainggolan (Defrel 82), Perotti; Dzeko

Ref: Collum (SCO)

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