10 matchday stats from Roma’s 4-1 win away to Lazio

Roma completed a stunning Serie A double over Lazio on Sunday – with goals from Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Dzeko, Alessandro Florenzi and Diego Perotti securing a 4-1 away win.

Here’s 10 stats from the game…

1. There were 35 shots in total during the game – with Roma enjoying 17 of them.

2. Six of Roma’s shots were on target – compared to just three for Lazio.

3. Nine of Roma’s 17 shots were from outside of the box.

4. Despite being the away side, Luciano Spalletti’s side enjoyed the greater share of the possession – 58.1% in total.

5. There were 842 passes made during the game – with the visitors accounting for 505 of them. Only 12.7% of Roma’s passes were hit long – compared to 18.7% for Lazio.

6. The Roma players were certainly up for this one – winning 57.4% of all duels and 61.3% of the aerial battles.

7. The visitors had a near perfect record for tackles during the derby – winning 94.4% of the 18 tackles they made.

8. There were eight yellow cards issued during the tie. Lazio had four players booked and one sent off – Wesley Hoedt, for picking up two yellows. Meanwhile, Antonio Rudiger and Radja Nainggolan both saw yellow.

9. Miralem Pjanic completed more passes than any of his team-mates – 67 in total with a 83.6% accuracy rate.

10. It took Edin Dzeko just four minutes to score after coming on to the pitch one hour into the game. It was his 10th goal in all competitions.