Six facts and figures on Cagliari 2-2 Roma

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From the 2012-13 season onwards, Roma have never once failed to secure at least four points from their first two Serie A matches. In the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons, the Giallorossi earned six points from a possible six.

Sunday’s draw at Cagliari may have put paid to a run of Week 2 victories stretching back to the 2012-13 season, though it was still an improvement on Roma’s last two Week 2 games against the Sardinian outfit: the Giallorossi were beaten 5-1 away in the 2010 campaign and 2-1 at home a year later.

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Marco Borriello now has five goals against Roma in his last four matches, with all four appearances coming for different teams: Genoa, Carpi, Atalanta and Cagliari. The Naples-born striker, who scored Cagliari’s first goal against Roma on Sunday, is now level with Daniele Conti and Roberto Muzzi as the ex-Roma player with most goals against the Giallorossi.

In total, ex-Roma players have scored a total of 133 goals against the club. The first to do so was Cesare Augusto Fasanelli, one of the iconic players from Roma’s Campo Testaccio era, as he scored in Genoa’s 3-1 win over the Giallorossi in 1937. Just behind Borriello, Conti and Muzzi on four goals are Lorenzo Bettini, Pietro Vierchowod and Sinisa Mihajlovic.

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Diego Perotti now has six goals and six assists in 17 league appearances for Roma. Perotti’s penalty against Cagliari brings him up to three league goals for the season, making him the Giallorossi’s leading scorer in Serie A this year.

The Argentine has already bettered his scoring record at Genoa, where he managed five goals and seven assists in 43 Serie A games.

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Roma have taken the lead in each of their last nine away matches, against Sassuolo, Carpi, Empoli, Udinese, Lazio, Atalanta, Genoa, AC Milan and of course Cagliari. The Giallorossi have gone on to win seven of those nine games, drawing the other two, against Atalanta and Cagliari.

On both of those occasions, Luciano Spalletti’s men let a two-goal lead split before having to settle for a draw. It finished 3-3 against Atalanta in Bergamo, 2-2 against Cagliari in Sardinia.

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Roma have now racked up a total of 50 points from 21 Serie A matches under Luciano Spalletti’s stewardship, which began against Hellas Verona midway through last season. Spalletti has a points-per-game ratio of 2.38, with the Giallorossi scoring 52 goals in the process.

Roma are unbeaten in Serie A in 19 games, with their last league defeat coming 217 days ago against Juventus on 24 January 2016.

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Kostas Manolas made his 90th competitive appearance for Roma against Cagliari. Meanwhile, Alessandro Florenzi played his 170th game for the club - and his 13th as captain.