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1960 – Pedro Manfredini scored a second hat trick in two games as Roma beat Padova 3-1. Roma stayed top of Serie A as a result, after overtaking Inter the previous week, when Manfredini had scored three against Lazio. Manfredini scored over 100 goals during his prolific spell with Roma. Also:
2016 – Roma suffered a last-minute loss to Atalanta, with the hosts winning 2-1. Diego Perotti had given Roma the lead with a penalty. 2011 – Goals from Miralem Pjanic and Fernando Gago secured a 2-1 win over Lecce. Andrea Bertolacci scored against his parent club for the visitors. 2010 – Roma made it seven games unbeaten with a 2-0 victory against Udinese. Jeremy Menez and Marco Borriello scored. 2001 – Emerson scored an equaliser in stoppage time as Roma drew 1-1 at Galatasaray in the Champions League second group stage. 1997 – Marco Delvecchio scored the winner as Roma beat Udinese 2-1 in the Coppa Italia Round of 16 second leg, sealing a 4-3 aggregate win. Paulo Sergio had opened the scoring. 1994 – Brescia held Roma to a goalless draw. 1988 – Sebino Nela's opener was cancelled out in a 1-1 draw with Cesena. 1984 – Daniele Corvia was born. The forward spent the 2004-05 season with Roma after coming through the youth ranks. 1983 – Roma drew 1-1 with Ascoli. Roberto Pruzzo scored the opener. 1977 – Roma drew 0-0 with Lazio. 1977 – Fabio Junior was born. He joined Roma from Cruzeiro in 1998 but made little impact across his two-year spell. 1966 – Roma won 2-1 over Lecco with goals from Fabio Enzo and Joaquin Peiro. 1949 – Roma lost 3-2 to Atalanta despite a brace from Aleksandar Arangelovich. It was the third consecutive game in which a different Roma player had scored a double. 1932 – Arturo Chini scored to give Roma a 1-0 win over Bari. 1927 – Roma lost 2-0 to Modena.
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2006 – Christian Panucci and Simone Perrotta both scored twice in a 7-0 thrashing of Catania. Mancini, Vincenzo Montella and Francesco Totti also scored in Roma's biggest win of the season. Roma made it four successive wins in Serie A as a result, while they remained unbeaten in all competitions in nine games. Francesco Totti's goal - the last of the match - meant he had scored in successive games for the second time that season. It was the biggest competitive win of either of Luciano Spalletti's two spells in charge. Also:
2012 – Roma beat Torino 2-0 with goals from Dani Osvaldo and Miralem Pjanic. 2005 – Roma were beaten 4-1 by Juvnetus. Francesco Totti scored a penalty. 2004 – Roma lost 2-1 to Siena in the Coppa Italia Round of 16 first leg. Francesco Totti scored in between Tore Andre Flo’s brace. 2000 – Gabriel Batistuta scored a brace as Roma came from a goal down to beat Verona 4-1. Vincent Candela and Francesco Totti also scored. 1995 – Eusebio Di Francesco scored against his future club as Piacenza beat Roma 1-0. 1989 – Giuseppe Giannini scored a late equaliser to seal a 1-1 draw with Lazio. 1988 – William Vainqueur was born. He played for Roma in the 2015-16 season. 1978 – Roma drew 0-0 at home to Perugia. 1972 – Torino defeated Roma 2-0. 1961 – Roma drew 2-2 with Torino. Sergio Carpanesi and Pedro Manfredini scored. 1950 – Roma and Napoli played out a goalless draw. 1939 – Bottom side Modena beat Roma 1-0. 1933 – Roma beat Napoli 2-1 away with an own goal and a strike from Alejandro Scopelli. 1974 – Max Tonetto was born. He finished his career with Roma, spending the years between 2006 and 2010 with the club and winning three trophies. After successful spells with the likes of Empoli, Lecce and Sampdoria, Tonetto came to Roma as a replacement for Leandro Cufre at left-back. In his first season with the club, he made 44 appearances in all competitions as Roma came 2nd in Serie A and won the Coppa Italia - Tonetto's first major honour. After he had added the Supercoppa Italiana to his medal collection, Roma retained the Coppa Italia the following season, with Tonetto starting in the final, unlike the previous year. He was capped once by Italy, in 2007. In total, he made 123 appearances for Roma, but only scored once - against former club Empoli in March 2008. Also:
2017 – Roma beat Lazio 2-1 with goals from Diego Perotti and Radja Nainggolan. 1990 – Toto Schillaci scored a hat trick as Juventus thrashed Roma 5-0. 1984 – Goals from Maurizio Iorio and Giuseppe Giannini led to a 2-1 win over Fiorentina. 1980 – Ivan Pelizzoli was born. The goalkeeper joined Roma in 2001 and stayed with the club until 2005. 1973 – A Pierino Prati penalty was enough to see off Verona with a 1-0 win. 1962 – Despite taking a two-goal lead through John Charles and Pedro Manfredini, Roma were pegged back to a 2-2 draw by Fiorentina. 1956 – Roma lost 2-0 at home to Fiorentina. 1951 – Roma lost 3-1 to Piombino in Serie B. Arcadio Venturi scored a late consolation. 1934 – Roma drew 1-1 with Lazio. Enrique Guaita gave Roma the lead with a penalty before Silvio Piola cancelled it out. 1928 – Roma lost 2-1 to Padova. Rodolfo Volk scored. 1894 – Geza Kertesz was born. He managed Roma between 1942 and 1943. 1996 – Roma ended a three-game winless run in Serie A with a 3-1 victory over Cagliari. Luigi Di Biagio and Abel Balbo (2) scored to ensure Roma bounced back from defeats to Verona and Bologna, with a draw with Juventus sandwiched in between. It was the second game running in which Balbo had scored a brace. He finished that season as the side's top scorer with 19 goals in all competitions. Also:
2001 – Roma and Inter played out a goalless draw in Serie A. 1991 – Roma drew 1-1 with Napoli at Stadio Olimpico. Fabrizio Di Mauro scored the opener. 1968 – Cagliari beat Roma 4-1. Giuliano Taccola scored a consolation. 1963 – Goals from Giancarlo De Sisti, Alberto Orlando and Saul Malatrasi led to a 3-0 win over Torino. 1957 – Roma drew 0-0 away at Napoli. 1940 – Roma drew 1-1 with Fiorentina thanks to Amedeo Amadei’s equaliser. 1935 – Roma lost 2-0 at Bologna. 1929 – Pro Vercelli beat Roma 2-0. 1925 – Gianfranco Dell’Innocenti was born. A defender, he played for Roma between 1947 and 1951. Dell'Innocenti joined from Alba Trastevere as Roma looked to reinforce a squad that had finished 15th the previous season. However, things did not go to plan, and Roma dropped even further to 17th in Dell'Innocenti's debut campaign. Dell'Innocenti was Roma's most-appeared player in the 1948-49 season, playing in all 38 Serie A games as Roma finished 14th. He was part of the side that were relegated to Serie B in 1951, although he did not feature much that year. He left for Lucchese, along with three of his teammates, that summer. In total, Dell'Innocenti made 86 appearances for the club, scoring once. Also:
2008 – Roma claimed their first league win in over a month by beating Lazio 1-0, courtesy of Julio Baptista’s goal. 2002 – Roma drew 2-2 with Inter as Vincenzo Montella and Gabriel Batistuta scored. 1975 – Despite Giancarlo De Sisti's opener, Roma drew 1-1 with Lazio. 1969 – Roma surrendered a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Sampdoria. Luciano Spinosi, Fabio Capello and Giorgio Braglia scored. 1958 – Napoli condemned Roma to a 3-0 defeat. 1952 – Roma lost 1-0 to Lazio. 1947 – Amedeo Amadei scored to give Roma a 1-0 win over Lazio. 1941 – Genoa beat Roma 2-0. 1931 – Roma beat Casale 3-1 with goals from Fulvio Bernardini and Rodolfo Volk (2). 1995 – Luca Mazzitelli was born. The midfielder came through Roma’s youth ranks before moving to Sassuolo. Born and raised in Rome, Mazzitelli made his senior debut in May 2014 at the age of 18, as Roma lost 1-0 to Genoa on the final day of the season. Mazzitelli came on as a substitute in place of Federico Ricci in the 59th minute, but a fairly depleted Roma side couldn't get past their opponents. It was Mazzitelli's only appearance for Roma before loan spells with Sudtirol and Brescia. Sassuolo signed him in 2016, where he saw more first team action, before he moved to Genoa this summer. Also:
1998 – Paulo Sergio and Vincent Candela scored in a 2-0 win over Juventus. 1970 – Sergio Petrelli scored a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Lazio. 1964 – The Derby Della Capitale ended as a goalless draw. A total of 25 matches with Lazio have finished 0-0. 1959 – Roma beat Bari 3-2 with goals from Pedro Manfredini (2) and Franco Zaglio. 1942 – Roma beat Atalanta 2-1 with goals from Miguel Angel Panto and Edmondo Mornese. 1910 – Edmondo Mornese was born. The midfielder played for Roma for three years, helping the club to its first Scudetto in 1942. Mornese joined Roma from Novara in 1941 for a six-figure sum, and immediately made an impression at his new club. He made a total of 29 appearances in his debut season as Roma won Serie A for the first time. Only four players appeared more than Mornese in the title-winning campaign. Luigi Brunella, Aristide Coscia, Amedeo Amadei and Miguel Angel Panto all made 30 appearances, while Guido Masetti and Aldo Donati both matched his tally of 29. Mornese left Roma in 1944 after seeing his playing time reduced during the two Campionato Romano di Guerra seasons. In total, he made 67 appearances for Roma, scoring three goals. Mornese died in 1962, over 10 years after a spell as coach of his former club Novara. Also:
2004 – Reggina beat Roma 1-0. 2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo died at the age of 79. He was Roma’s manager in the 1965-66 season. 1990 – Roma won the first leg of their Coppa Italia Round of 16 clash with Genoa 2-0. Manuel Gerolin and Ruggiero Rizzitelli scored. 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen was born. The defender disappointed in his one-season loan spell with Roma in 2016-17. 1974 – Marco Caputi was born. The midfielder began his senior career at Roma in 1993. 1972 – Dario Rossi was born. The defender played for Roma briefly in the 1990s. 1971 – Roma beat Varese 3-1. Gianfranco Zigoni scored twice and Sergio Petrelli netted in between. 1965 – Roma lost 3-1 to Bologna, with the goal converted into his own net by a Bologna player. 1954 – Arcadio Venturi’s opener was cancelled out as Roma drew 1-1 at Atalanta. 1948 – Sampdoria beat Roma 4-2. Mario Tontodonati and Bruno Pesaola scored late consolations. 1937 – Roma lost 2-0 at Bari. 1960 – Pedro Manfredini scored a hat trick in a 4-0 Derby demolition of Lazio. Alberto Orlando completed the scoring late on. Roma overtook Inter to move top of Serie A after seven games as a result. They finished 5th that season. Manfredini is one of only four Roma players to have scored a hat trick in a Rome Derby - the others being Ernesto Tomasi in 1933, Istvan Nyers in 1955 and Vincenzo Montella in 2002. In contrast, only one Lazio player has scored a Derby hat trick: Alexandre Demaria in a 3-3 draw in 1934. With five goals against Lazio in total, Manfredini is the eighth-highest scorer in Derby Della Capitale history. Also:
2010 – Francesco Totti equalised from the penalty spot in a 1-1 draw with Juventus. 1963 – Roma thrashed Napoli 5-0 in the Coppa Italia second round. Pedro Manfredini scored a hat trick with Alberto Orlando getting a brace. 1949 – Mario Tontodonati scored a brace as Roma beat Sampdoria 2-1. 1938 – Roma drew 2-2 with Napoli as Pietro Serantoni and Otello Subinaghi completed a comeback. 1932 – Roma beat Palermo 2-0 with an own goal and a Cesare Augusto Fasanelli strike. 1927 – Roma and Juventus drew 0-0. 1955 – Dino Da Costa scored a hat trick in a dramatic 5-3 win over Pro Patria. Roma took a three-goal lead through an own goal and two from Da Costa, before the home side pulled two back. Da Costa scored again followed by a Carlo Galli strike to put Roma in the driving seat before Gugliemo Toros completed his own hat trick with a consolation for the opponents. Da Costa's hat trick was the first of three he scored for the club. He became the highest-scoring Brazilian-born player in Roma's history. Also:
2002 – Roma qualified from the first Champions League group stage in 2nd place after drawing 1-1 with AEK Athens. Marco Delvecchio opened the scoring. 2000 – Roma beat Reggina 2-1 with goals from Francesco Totti and Vincenzo Montella. 1998 – Atalanta knocked Roma out of the Coppa Italia in the Round of 16 stage via a penalty shootout. Like the first leg, the second leg ended as a 1-1 draw. Francesco Totti’s equaliser took it to extra time, but Marco Delvecchio missed his spot kick as the opposition won the shootout 5-4. 1978 – Lazio and Roma drew 0-0 in the Derby Della Capitale. 1972 – Roma lost 1-0 to Lazio. 1969 – Fabio Capello’s late penalty gave Roma a 1-0 European Cup Winners’ Cup win over PSV in the Round of 16 first leg. 1967 – Roma drew 0-0 with LR Vicenza. 1966 – Inter and Roma played out a goalless draw. 1964 – Thomas Berthold was born. A defender, he played for Roma between 1989 and 1991. In 1990, he became one of a handful of players to win the World Cup while a Roma player. 1961 – Pedro Manfredini’s opener was cancelled out as Roma drew 1-1 with Fiorentina. 1950 – Roma beat Como 2-0 with a brace from Mario Tontodonati. 1946 – Despite taking the lead through an own goal, Roma were thrashed 5-1 by Juventus. 1933 – Roma were held to a 0-0 draw by Livorno. 1927 – Carlo Lucchesi was born. He played for Roma as a winger in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In total, he made 55 league appearances for Roma, scoring six goals. He was part of the only Roma side to be relegated to Serie B, although he spent the following campaign on loan at Lucchese, who at the time played in the top flight. He left Roma in 1953 following the arrival of Uruguayan winger Alcides Ghiggia. Also:
2012 – Roma lost 3-2 to Lazio despite goals from Erik Lamela and Miralem Pjanic. 2006 – Francesco Totti scored a brace in a 2-1 win over Milan. 2001 – Roma lost their Coppa Italia Round of 16 first leg against Piacenza by a 2-1 scoreline. Christian Panucci scored for Roma after Eusebio Di Francesco had scored against his former club, for the second time in his second meeting with them since leaving. 1993 – Franco Evangelisti died at the age of 70 in Rome. He was Roma’s chairman between 1965 and 1968. 1990 – Roma beat Cesena 4-1 with goals from Stefano Desideri, Rudi Voller (2) and Roberto Muzzi. 1984 – Roma and Lazio played out a goalless draw. 1979 – Despite taking the lead through Bruno Conti, Roma lost 3-1 to Perugia. 1968 – Diego Fuser was born. The midfielder played for Roma between 2001 and 2003. 1945 – Roma drew 1-1 at Livorno, with Omero Urilli scoring. |
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