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Roma grab all three points at Stadio Olimpico (1-0)

Borja Mayoral scored the only goal of the game as Roma beat Bologna 1-0 on Sunday evening. The Spanish striker steered home brilliantly on the stroke of half-time to clinch all three points at the Stadio Olimpico, in what was a determined display from Paulo Fonseca's side. Pedro repeated on Fonseca's line-up after Europa League away win on Thursday and played 68 minutes of the Serie A fixture before being replaced by Mkhitaryan.

With Bologna in the ascendancy for parts of the first half, Mayoral's clever clip over the onrushing Lukas Skorupski and pass into the unguarded net proved the moment of incision that decided the contest.

With the advantage secured the Giallorossi enjoyed a much better second half display - they perhaps could and should have added to their lead. Amadou Diawara and Pedro both had chances, while Skorupski also did well to deny Bruno Peres.

In the end their were plenty of positives to take for Fonseca, however, as he managed to rotate his starting line-up in view of Thursday's Europa League return meeting with Ajax while also giving late runouts to Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Jordan Veretout and Javier Pastore.

That game on Thursday, once again at the Olimpico, gets underway at 21:00 CEST.

 

- Match stats

ROMA (3-4-2-1): Mirante; Mancini, Ibanez, Fazio; Reynolds (Karsdorp 76'), Diawara (Veretout 68'), Villar, Peres; Perez (Pellegrini 76'), Pedro (Mkhitaryan 68'); Mayoral (Pastore 84')

BOLOGNA (4-2-3-1): Skorupski; De Silvestri (Antov 61'), Danilo, Soumaro, Dijks; Schouten, Svanberg (Juwara 69'); Skov Olsen (Sansone 60'), Soriano, Barrow (Orsolini 60'); Palacio

Bookings: Pedro 36', De Silvestri (38'), Gonzalo Villar (75'), Pellegrini (83')

Goals: Mayoral (44')

- Match report by asroma.com