opening spell of the match was marred by one thing, though, when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain went in for a clean tackle on Aleksandar Kolarov and appeared to bang the underside of his kneecap off the Serbians shin and then twist his knee, forcing him out of the match on a stretcher just 18 minutes in.
AS Roma: Alisson; Federico Fazio, Kostas Manolas, Juan Jesus (Diego Perotti 67); Alessandro Florenzi, Daniele De Rossi (Maxime Gonalons 67), Kevin Strootman, Aleksandar Kolarov; Cengiz Under (Patrick Schick 46), Radja Nainggolan; Edin Dzeko