In Stats: 10 numbers from win over Sampdoria

We’ve picked out 10 numbers from Roma’s hard-fought 1-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday that kicked-off the Giallorossi’s 2021 fixtures with a well-earned three points.

5

The Sampdoria shutout means Roma have kept a clean sheet in four of their last six home Serie A games, but also ends a run of five games in all competitions without a clean sheet. It is also Pau Lopez’s first in the league this term.

6

Captain Edin Dzeko scored against Sampdoria for the sixth time in his career, drawing the Bosnian level with his six-goal haul versus Atalanta that is his best return against a single Serie A club.

14

Lorenzo Pellegrini is the first Roma player to play a part in 14 or more shots in a Serie A game (seven shots, seven chances created) since he did so against Torino last January.

15

Roma are now 15 games unbeaten at home in all competitions (W11, D4) and have picked up more points on home soil (20) than any other team in Serie A this season after already picking up six wins and two draws from 2020-21 league games at the Olimpico.

29

With Sampdoria sitting deep and the weather slowing play, Roma had to change tact and look to get balls into the box and they made 29 crosses to Sampdoria’s six, one of which crucially saw Rick Karsdorp supply Dzeko’s only goal of the game.

50

Lopez made his 50th start in all competitions in the Roma goal, with his two other outings for the club coming from the bench.

72

Roma ended the first half with 72 per cent of possession in what was a dominant opening 45 minutes from the hosts, while they closed out the game with a total of 66 per cent of the ball.

85

Dzeko scored his 85th Serie A goal for Roma, moving him within one strike of Amedeo Amadei’s 86 that place the legendary Italian third on the club’s all-time top-flight top-scorers list behind only Roberto Pruzzo (106) and Francesco Totti (250).

200

Dzeko started for the 200th time as a Giallorossi player, whose 238th game for Roma further establishes the 34-year-old striker as the fifth-highest non-Italian appearance maker in the club’s history with just Philippe Mexes (267), Vincent Candela (289), Rodrigo Taddei (296) and Aldair (436) ahead of him.

591

Paulo Fonseca’s side completed 506 - or 86 per cent - of their 591 attempted passes, finding a teammate on 185 more occasions than Sampdoria (223 accurate passes from 322 attempts) even tried to make.