Rome is on fire for the Derby della Capitale

The Derby della Capitale is, as the name suggests, the local football derby between the two biggest teams in the capital of Italy; Rome. The two teams share their stadium Stadio Olimpico, which has seen some riots when these teams meet. Local fans view this match as a battle to represent the city of Rome in the rest of Italy.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

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.

Roma form and stats

The story so far in the Serie A for Roma at their home stadium (Stadio Olimpico) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

Roma's previous match was a Europa League game also played at their own arena, ending 3-1 vs Ludogorets. The home team hope to to build on that result. The attacking player Pellegrini won the honour of being "man of the match" for Roma with a rating of 9.64/10. Pellegrini scored two goals, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 35 successful passes (of 43 total).

There will be little rest for Roma after this match as they are travelling to Sassuolo for a Serie A game in only three days.

Roma has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. From these home matches, Roma have conceded only 3 goals.

Lazio form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Serie A. Lazio have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.

Two away matches in a row for Lazio, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 against Feyenoord in the Europa League. Before that loss this club had taken at least a draw from six league fixtures in a row. Anderson, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.21. Anderson hit the woodwork once and hit two key passes.

We have checked recent matches where Lazio have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 2 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

After this away game Lazio return home for a Serie A game against Monza. That game is only four sleeps after this.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Lazio are regular goalscorers on their travels. Lazio are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only {1 goals} away.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Roma four wins, three draws and Lazio three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

C. Immobile 6 goals

P. Exequiel Dybala 5 goals

M. Zaccagni 5 goals

Roma missing players

Lazio missing players