Leicester put to the sword in Roman cauldron
AS Roma 1:0 Leicester City
City’s European ambitions came to an end in Rome on Thursday night, with an Abraham goal sending Roma to the Europa Conference League Final.
3,500 City fans and the vast majority of 60,000 raucous Romans were in their seats over an hour before kick off as an incredible atmosphere began to build.
Brendan Rodgers made ten changes to the side that lost at Spurs, and with the exception of the injured Ndidi, this was his strongest line-up.
City, playing towards a wall of noise from the Curva Sud, had a decent opening spell. Tielemans had a shot blocked by Smalling, and then Fofana was wrestled to the ground as he attempted to meet a Maddison corner. But the referee wasn’t interested, something that became an ongoing theme for the night. Roma then began to press forward, and earned a free-kick on the left. Pellegrini tried to catch Schmeichel out at the near post but he beat the well-struck shot into the ground and it span up and over the bar.
This was a brief respite for City, who went a goal down in the 11th minute. A corner from the right was met with a thumping header from Abraham who had soared above his marker Ricardo. The noise that greeted this goal was ear-splitting, and City now had their work cut out.
Dewsbury-Hall saw a shot deflected high and wide and from the resulting corner Evans was fouled, but even at this stage it was clear that City wouldn’t be getting anything from referee Srdjan Jovanovic.
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