Roma have traveled here for an interesting Europa League fight against Real Betis. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
Roma have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Real Betis form and stats
Betis participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the round of 16 and lost against Eintracht Frankfurt.4-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the La Liga numbers at home for Real Betis so far this season. On the other hand, in the Europa League, Real Betis has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Real Betis are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 199 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Iglesias).
The Betis coach Pellegrini and his crew return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Real Valladolid. The goalie Silva was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.42 out of ten. Silva topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that game, a nice away victory at Roma. A Europa League match. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Real Betis have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 2 and lost 1.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Real Betis, as the La Liga home game vs Almeria is only three days away.
The Real Betis fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 7 goals in 4 league matches. Betis have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {1 goals}.
Roma form and stats
They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when Manchester United drew the shortest straw.3-1-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Roma in their Serie A matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses both home and away.
Roma won their last game, 2-1 versus Lecce played at home. Dybala has bagged at least one goal for the away side three fixtures in a row. The talent! Midfield player Cristante was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.04/10. Cristante hit two key passes and had 70 successful passes (of 78 total).
The game earlier was the Europa League-battle against Real Betis, a home defeat (1-2).
The schedule is very tough for Roma now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Serie A game at Sampdoria is waiting in only four days.
Roma are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 5 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Roma have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The fixture lists shows this result when the sides met earlier this campaign; Roma - Betis 1-2. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's two Real Betis victories, zero draws and zero Roma wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less. The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last two encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Iglesias 6 goals |   P. Exequiel Dybala 5 goals |  C. Smalling 3 goals |
Real Betis missing players
Roma missing players
| Real Betis | Roma | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 31 | 20 | Scored | S | 14 | 37 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Conceded | C | 15 | 21 | ||
| 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 12% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 16% | ||
| 3.5 | 3.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 5.5 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.3 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.3 | 12.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.1 | 15.2 | ||
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 5.4 | ||
| 27% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 27% | ||
| 11.7 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.4 | 10.6 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Betis | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Ludogorets | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Roma | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | HJK | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FC Barcelona | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 22 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 22 |
| 3 | Athletic Club | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 17 |
| 4 | Atletico Madrid | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 16 |
| 5 | Real Betis | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 7 | Valencia | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
| 8 | Osasuna | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| 9 | Villarreal | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | Rayo Vallecano | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Celta de Vigo | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 10 |
| 12 | Mallorca | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 8 |
| 13 | Real Valladolid | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 8 |
| 14 | Girona | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 15 | Almeria | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 16 | Getafe | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 7 |
| 17 | Espanyol | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -5 | 6 |
| 18 | Sevilla | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -13 | 5 |
| 20 | Elche | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | -15 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Napoli | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 23 |
| 2 | Atalanta | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Udinese | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | Milan | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 5 | Roma | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 6 | Lazio | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 17 |
| 7 | Inter | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Juventus | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 9 | Sassuolo | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 10 | Torino | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 11 | Salernitana | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 12 | Monza | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 10 |
| 13 | Fiorentina | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 14 | Empoli | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Spezia | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | -10 | 8 |
| 16 | Lecce | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 17 | Bologna | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 7 |
| 18 | Hellas Verona | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 5 |
| 19 | Cremonese | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 3 |
| 20 | Sampdoria | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -12 | 3 |
