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    Top 10: Last-minute Roma victories down the years


    On Saturday night Edin Dzeko scored in the 95th minute to rescue a 3-2 victory over Frosinone - but how does it compare with some other great, late Roma wins down the years?

    We've rounded up some of the best in recent memory...

    10. Edin Dzeko, Frosinone 2-3 Roma (2018-19)

    The last touch of the game, more or less. In the 95th minute, Dzeko scored his second goal of the game to wrap up the three points in an erratic game that had seen Roma go behind and ahead already during the contest. What relief!

    9. Julio Baptista, Torino 0-1 Roma (2008-09)

    Last-minute winners are great; last minute bicycle kick winners? Even better. Julio Baptista did exactly that up in Turin, deciding a tough away game with an incredible flick and volley in the last moments...

    8. Francesco Totti, Roma 3-2 Torino (2015-16)

    Few will ever forget this one. Roma were 2-1 down at the Stadio Olimpico when Totti came on as an 86th-minute substitute. By the 90th the legendary No. 10 had turned things around entirely on his own; his nerveless penalty deciding the game after he had equalised almost immediately after coming on.

    7. Francesco Totti, Roma 4-3 Cagliari (2005-06)

    With the game taking place in Rieti, Roma eventually outlasted Cagliari in a remarkable 4-3 win - the decisive goal coming in the 90th minute courtesy of (who else?) Totti, whose strike made it eight wins in a row in the league for the Giallorossi. That run would eventually stretch to 11, a then-league record...

    6. Paolo Giovannelli, Lazio 1-2 Roma (1979-80)

    Last-minute derby winners... isn't that what every young boy dreams of? And what a way Paolo Giovannelli managed to do it, winning the match for his side with a spectacular drive from outside the box in almost the last moments of the match...

    5. John Arne Riise, Juventus 1-2 Roma (2009-10)

    The likeable full-back etched his place in Roma's history with a brilliant last-minute header at the old Della Alpi, turning around a game that had previously seen Francesco Totti's penalty cancel out Alessandro Del Piero's opener.

    4. Francesco Totti, Roma 2-1 Fiorentina (1998-99)

    On of the most incredible comebacks in Roma history: especially considering the side had previously had a man sent off. Batistuta opened the scoring for La Viola but in the 89th minute Gustavo Bartelt equalised - setting the stage for Totti to decide the game in the very last minute.

    3. Paulo Roberto Falcao, Roma 2-0 Koln (1982-83)

    The last-16 of the Champions League. Roma are 1-0 down after the first leg, but have the game turned around thanks to an early strike at the Olimpico. And then, the roar from the Olimpico crowd when the great Falcao lashes in what would prove to be the winner - before celebrating under the Curva Sud...

    2. Diego Perotti, Roma 3-2 Genoa (2016-17)

    On the day that Francesco Totti said goodbye to football, it was perhaps fitting that the drama on the pitch matched the emotional scenes that would follow off it. Roma needed to win the game to secure Champions League qualification for the following season but, with the game entering added time, had been pegged back twice to see the score level at 2-2. Enter the perhaps unlikely figure of Diego Perotti - penalties aside the winger had perhaps not always been a prolific scorer, but there he was in the right place to take Edin Dzeko's knockdown and lash home a priceless winner!

    1. Rudi Voeller, Roma 2-1 Brøndby (1990-91)

    After drawing 0-0 in Denmark, the Giallorossi knew they would reach the final of the UEFA Cup with a home victory at the Olimpico. Ruggiero Rizzitelli had given the Giallorossi the lead, only for Sebino Nela's own goal to restore the tie to parity. Enter Voeller: the flying German scoring in the 87th minute to deliver another European final to the team...