Roma's adventure in the Europa League begins in the worst way.
A 2-1 defeat arrives at Ludogorets, who celebrate thanks to the goals in the final by Cauly and Nonato, while the goal of Shomurodov's momentary equalizer is useless.
The Bulgarian team thus takes the first 3 points and leads Group C with Real Betis, winning with Helsinki.
Ready to go and the Bulgarians have suffered a huge chance with Despodov, who comes face to face with Svilar trying a solution halfway between a shot and a pass for Thiago, which ended directly on the bottom.
The Giallorossi, after a subdued start, try to put their nose out of the half hour onwards, frightening the hosts with a couple of attempts by Pellegrini and in particular with a header by Mancini, which ended on the post on the occasion of a corner.
At the beginning of the second half Roma still touched the advantage with Pellegrini, launched vertically by Dybala face to face with Padt, but imprecise with a seemingly simple touch underneath.
Mourinho's team did not break through and in the 72nd minute even went under with Cauly's goal, left free to enter centrally and beat Svilar for 1-0.
Mourinho's men try to react in some way, they find a draw with Shomurodov in the 86th minute, but after less than a couple of minutes the Ludogorets comes back with Nonato,
Fiorentina sticks to their debut in the Conference League, failing to go beyond a 1-1 with the Latvians of RFS Riga. The momentary advantage of Barak, reached by Ilic, is not enough for the Franchi: the Italian team thus takes only one point and is immediately forced to chase Basaksehir, winning 4-0 against Hearts.
The Viola dominate the first fraction in terms of amount of play and scoring opportunities created: the first and most sensational one at 6 'by Barak, who hits an incredible post with a left-handed from inside the area.
Then begins a real duel between the visiting goalkeeper Steinbors and Cabral, very dangerous several times but always rejected with excellent interventions.
Ranieri also tries, missing a good chance at 37 'from a few steps, while on the other hand the only real goal is the one that Ilic failed at 42', who flies face to face with Gollini after a mistake by Bonaventura , being walled up by the purple goalkeeper.
In the second half, the Viola return to press and in the 56th minute he goes ahead with Barak, very good at turning a cross from Biraghi from the left, finding the lightning bolt for the 1-0.
The Italian team seems to be able to manage the advantage quite easily, but in the 74th minute they are punished by Ilic, who this time guesses the deadly conclusion for Gollini and worth the 1-1.
In the final, the Viola attempt the last assaults to take the success, but without finding any luck.
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