With Roma travelling to champions Inter Milan on Wednesday (kick-off: 20:45 CET), we have all the pre-match preamble you need.

INTER MILAN

League position: 1st
Head coach: Antonio Conte
Serie A top-scorer: Romelu Lukaku (21)

RECENT FORM

Inter: D D W W W
Roma: L L L W W

The Nerazzurri have ended their 11-year wait for a Scudetto with a first league title since clinching the Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League treble under incoming Roma coach Jose Mourinho in 2009-10.

It’s been a superb campaign for Conte’s side, who have lost just twice in the league and have gone 19 games without a top-flight defeat (W15, D4).

Roma, meanwhile, ended a four-game winless run in Serie A with a convincing 5-0 victory over Crotone and switch focus almost immediately from facing bottom of the league to taking on top.

The Giallorossi will be out to put a stop to a five-match streak without victory on their travels (D2, L3), which includes losses in each of their last three away from home.

LAST MEETING

DANGER MAN
Romelu Lukaku

Only a certain Cristiano Ronaldo (27) has scored more Serie A goals than the Belgian this season and it’s Lukaku’s goals that have largely powered Inter’s title tilt.

Lukaku was rested for last weekend’s 5-1 win over Sampdoria, but should return to the starting XI for the visit of Roma.

The 27-year-old has been on the scoresheet in just one of three previous meetings with the Giallorossi and he has also gone five league games without finding the back of the net.

It makes for encouraging pre-match reading if you’re Marash Kumbula & Co - but the threat of Lukaku certainly won’t be taken lightly.

MATCH STATS

Inter and Roma have drawn each of their last six Serie A games and only one fixture in the history of the competition has ever seen seven successive draws - the Derby della Capitale from 1990 and 1993.

This will be the sixth time these two have gone up against each other on a Wednesday night and the previous results split down the middle, with two wins apiece and two draws.

The visitors’ record on a Wednesday is excellent and Roma have won each of their last nine Serie A games on ‘hump day’, with the league record of 10 consecutive Wednesday wins in their sight.

The last time Roma lost away to Inter was way back in 2015, with the Giallorossi claiming one win and three draws on their subsequent visits.

PLAYER STATS

• Antonio Conte - preparing for his 100th game in charge of Inter - has beaten 21 of the 22 sides he has faced in Serie A since joining the club, with Roma the only side to deny him.
  
• Lautaro Martinez has never scored against Roma and his 323-minute drought against the Giallorossi is his longest against any team in Italy’s top tier.
  
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan is one of only three midfielders in Europe’s top-five leagues to have delivered at least 10 goals and 10 assists in 2020-21, alongside Bruno Fernandes and Marcos Llorente.
  
• Gianluca Mancini’s 86th-minute equaliser in the reverse fixture this season was his second goal against Inter - the only team he has scored more than once against in his career.

WHAT THEY SAID

"There is immense satisfaction for me and the players, for all those who contributed to this. Inter hadn’t won the Scudetto for 11 years, so inevitably we all really want to celebrate it."

- Inter coach Conte, after their title was confirmed