Slavia Prague Beats And Moves AS Roma In The Europa League

JAKARTA - AS Roma's move towards the last 16 of the Europa League after losing to Slavia Prague in the Europa League Group G match. Appearing at the opponent's home at the Fortuna Arena Stadium, Friday, November 10 in the morning WIB, Slavia Prague won 2-0 and replaced Roma from the top of the standings.

Roma have not been able to secure the last 16 tickets because they lost when they visited Slavia Prague's headquarters. The defeat changed the position of the two teams in the standings as well as making the competition even tighter.

Roma were forced to go down to second place with nine points. Similar to Slavia Prague who is at the top of the standings by shifting Roma because of the goal difference.

Not only that, but competition becomes more open when the preliminary round leaves two games left.

Because Servette, who is ranked third, also has a chance to qualify for the knockout round. Now, Servette has four points after a 2-1 win over FC Sheriff.

In that match, Roma coach Jose Mourinho was again unable to accompany the team. This is his last match to receive sanctions from UEFA.

In that match, Mourinho made changes to the composition of the players because the team will face a match that is no less important this weekend. They met city rivals, Lazio, in the Derby della Capitale in the Italian Serie A competition.

Striker Paulo Dybala is still not played. Mourinho chose to lower the duo of Romelu Lukaku and Andrea Belotti. Only, they failed to contribute goals.

Slavia Prague, who had ambitions to avenge a 2-0 defeat at the first meeting at the Olimpico, immediately pressed through offensive play.

The host's aggressive game made them have two chances through Christos Zafeiris and Vaclav Jurecka.

But they failed to take advantage of the chance to become a goal. Furthermore, Mojmir Chytil got the best chance when he received a pass from Zaferis in the 27th minute.

Again Slavia Prague could not score a goal because Chytil failed to break into Roma's goal. The score remained 0-0 until the end of the first half.

In the second half, Slavia Prague did not reduce the tempo of the game. They played more aggressively and this time the host's efforts gave results.

In the 50th minute, the hosts managed to break into Roma's goal after Jurecka completed Chytil's assist. After that goal, Slavia Prague kept pressing the opponent to maintain the advantage.

Roma actually continued to play attacking in order to equalize the score. Unfortunately, a number of Giallorossi opportunities could not be converted into goals.

In return, Slavia Prague managed to increase the advantage. This time, defender Lukas Masopust scored a beautiful goal when he kicked from outside the penalty box towards the bottom corner of the goal. Score 2-0 for Slavia Prague and survive until the end of the match.