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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Roma opt for back four against Liverpool in Champions League semi-final

Roma seem to have learned a lesson after the first leg as Mo Salah and co. tore them apart as they look to overturn 5-2 deficit.

Soccer Football - Champions League - Liverpool Training - Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy - May 1, 2018   Liverpool's Dejan Lovren and Mohamed Salah during training   Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley
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As Roma manager, Eusebio di Francesco, will not make the same mistake as he did in the first leg and opts for four at the back against Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final second leg.

Alessandro Florenzi starts at right back with Federico Fazio, Konstantinos Manolas and Alexsander Kolarov alongside him as pundits suggest it is a 4-3-3 that Roma are going with in their battle to overturn a 5-2 first leg defeat.

Kevin Strootman is out injured as Lorenzo Pellegrini, Daniele de Rossi and Radja Nainggolan man the midfield while Edin Dzeko, Patrik Schick and Stephan El Shaarawy start up front for the Serie A side.

Jurgen Klopp makes just one change to his side as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain misses out after suffering injury in the first leg as Georgino Wijnaldum replaces him. 

Liverpool XI: Karius, Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Milner, Wijnaldum, Mané, Salah and Firmino.

Roma XI: Alisson, Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov, Pellegrini, De Rossi, Nainggolan, Schick, Dzeko, El Shaarawy.