2007–08 A.S. Roma season

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Roma
2007–08 season
President Rosella Sensi
Manager Luciano Spalletti
Stadium Stadio Olimpico
Serie A 2nd
Supercoppa Italiana Winners
Coppa Italia Winners
UEFA Champions League Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer League:
Francesco Totti (14)
All:
Francesco Totti (18)
Highest home attendance 80,023 vs Manchester United
(1 April 2008, Champions League)
Lowest home attendance 26,893 vs Sporting CP
(23 October 2007, Champions League)
Average home league attendance 37,276[1]
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

During the 2007–08 season Associazione Sportiva Roma played the 75th Serie A season in its history. As in the previous season, Roma finished in second place in Serie A behind Internazionale, but had the chance to win the Championship until the last match.

Further, because giallorossi won the 2006–07 Coppa Italia, they played the Supercoppa Italiana for the second consecutive time against Inter, and won the trophy thanks to a 1–0 victory in the first match of the season in San Siro.

In the European competitions, Roma played 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and, starting from the group stage, beat Real Madrid in the Round of 16, but lost to the eventual champions Manchester United in the quarter-finals.

The last match of the season was the 2007–08 Coppa Italia final against Internazionale, the fourth consecutive final between the two teams. The giallorossi won 2–1, their ninth Coppa Italia triumph.

Season review

Pre-season & transfers

Early pre-season was dominated by the protracted talks involving the renewal of Cristian Chivu's contract[2] and the many rumours that linked him to many other teams. In fact, the Romanian defender refused a new contract because he already knew he had an offer of about €4M from Internazionale.[3] For this reason in early June Roma extended Philippe Mexès' contract until 2011[4] and signed Brazilian 2007 Copa América winning defender Juan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

The speculation involving Chivu lasted almost two months, and after that he refused to extend his contract with AS Roma. The player also turned down offers from Barcelona and Real Madrid,[5] stating that if he was not transferred to Inter he would keep playing for AS Roma until his contract ran out the summer of 2008.[6] For this reason Roma's supporters saw him as a "traitor" and whistled him during a training session in Stadio Flaminio;[7] even Roma's director of football Daniele Pradé stated that the Romanian defender made "incalculable damage" to the club because Real Madrid's offer was higher than the others.[8] Eventually, on 27 July, when it seemed that Chivu would have been a giallorosso until the end of his contract period, Inter made a final offer of 14M€ plus the co-ownership of Marco Andreolli.[9]

Roma also signed Ludovic Giuly, Mauro Esposito and, at the end of August, Cicinho. The loans of Christian Wilhelmsson and Francesco Tavano were not renewed, while Vincenzo Montella was loaned to Sampdoria as he wanted more first-team football. However, Roma bought full ownership of David Pizarro, Mirko Vučinić and Marco Cassetti.

The signings of Matteo Brighi, Ahmed Barusso and Vitorino Antunes further enlarged the squad, while young players such as Aleandro Rosi, Ricardo Faty, Stefano Okaka, Valerio Virga, Alessio Cerci, Andrea Giacomini and Daniele Galloppa were loaned to lower league clubs to gain experience.[10][11]

First part of the season

Roma began the 2007–08 season on 19 August 2007 with the Supercoppa Italiana in San Siro against Internazionale. In the previous season, Roma had lost the Supercoppa 4–3, but on this occasion succeeded in winning (by 1–0) the second Supercoppa in its history, thanks to a penalty by Daniele De Rossi after a foul by Nicolás Burdisso on Francesco Totti.[12]

The 2007–08 Serie A began with Roma as one of the favourites, after Internazionale, Milan and together with Juventus.[13]

The first matches confirmed pre-season expectations of a successful campaign, as Roma started well with a 2–0 win against Palermo with goals from Philippe Mexès and Alberto Aquilani, who also scored in the second match against Siena.

Roma qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League after finishing second in the 2006–07 season, qualifying directly to the group stage, where they were drawn from the second pot into Group F, together with Manchester United, Sporting CP and Dynamo Kyiv.

After the pause for Italy's Euro 2008 qualifying matches against France and Ukraine, in which Daniele De Rossi, Simone Perrotta, Christian Panucci and Alberto Aquilani played, Roma entered a difficult period of fixtures over a short span of time: from 16 September until 3 October, the giallorossi played against Reggina (winning 2–0), Dynamo Kyiv (winning 2–0), Juventus (drawing 2–2), Fiorentina (drawing 2–2), Internazionale (losing 4–1) and Manchester United (losing 1–0).

Roma won 2–0 in the first match against the Calabrese team thanks to Juan's first goal, a volley with his heel, and the second goal by Francesco Totti, who also scored in the 2–0 victory against Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kyiv. In the following two games against Juventus and Fiorentina, Roma led 2–1 but failed to hold on for the win, conceding the equalizer in the last minutes of both games.

After having played Juventus on Sunday and Fiorentina on Wednesday, Roma faced champions Inter on Saturday, 29 September. The giallorossi lost 4–1, but the defeat was abetted by a handball in the penalty area from Ludovic Giuly who was sent off and cost Roma a penalty, after which the numerical inferiority and the disadvantage opened the nerazzurri's overwhelming victory.[14] -

After losing their position as Serie A league leaders, Roma had to face Manchester United for the first time since their débâcle the previous season at the hands of the English champions in the quarter-finals where they had lost 7–1 . Roma lost this time too, but missed many chances,[15] and even the scorer game's only goal, Wayne Rooney, stated that "Roma deserved more".[16] In addition to ending the first match of the season without scoring a goal, the giallorossi lost Alberto Aquilani to a groin injury[17] that would keep him out of play for more than a month,[18] preventing him from playing the derby.

Roma won their next match 3–0 against Parma, thanks to two goals by Francesco Totti and one by Mancini, thus leaving behind a poor run of two draws and two defeats before the break for the Euro 2008 qualifying matches. After the international break Roma played out a thrilling 4–4 draw against Napoli.

In the third Champions League group stage match, Roma had to face Sporting CP and, though Totti was injured, the team won thanks to goals by Juan and Mirko Vučinić, who dribbled two Portuguese defenders before scoring and assuring Roma second place in Group F, after three matches. The Montenegrin captain was also the protagonist of the second consecutive victory in San Siro against Milan, scoring the only goal of the game.[19]

On 31 October 2007 the giallorossi played the Derby della Capitale against Lazio without three important first team players (Totti, Alberto Aquilani and Rodrigo Taddei), all out with injury. Despite this, Roma won 3–2 thanks to the third goal in three matches from Mirko Vučinić (evening the score after a goal from Lazio's Tommaso Rocchi), the second goal of the league campaign for Mancini and the winning goal by Simone Perrotta.[20]

Players

Squad information

As of 22 December 2007:
In italics, players involved in transfer during the season

No. Nat Player Pos Lge
Apps		 Lge
Gls		 CL
Apps		 CL
Gls		 CI[21]
Apps		 CI
Gls		 Tot
Apps		 Tot
Gls		 First Match with Roma Previous Club[22]
Goalkeepers
1 Italy Gianluca Curci GK 1 (1) 0 1 0 5 0 7 (1) 0 19 December 2004 Roma Primavera
25 Italy Carlo Zotti GK - - - - - - - - 10 May 2003 Roma Primavera
27 Brazil Júlio Sérgio GK - - - - - - - - - América
32 Brazil Doni GK 37 0 9 0 3 (1) 0 48 (1) 0 23 October 2005 Juventude
Defenders
2 Italy Christian Panucci RB 21 (6) 5 5 (1) 1 5 (1) 0 31 (8) 6 23 September 2001 Monaco
3 Brazil Cicinho RB 17 (12) 2 4 (3) 0 5 (2) 0 26 (17) 2 26 August 2007 Real Madrid
4 Brazil Juan CB 19 (3) 2 8 1 2 0 29 (3) 3 2 September 2007 Bayer Leverkusen
5 France Philippe Mexès CB 30 (1) 1 9 0 5 1 43 (1) 2 12 September 2004 Auxerre
15 Portugal Vitorino Antunes LB 0 (5) 0 1 0 3 0 4 (5) 0 12 December 2007 Paços de Ferreira
21 Italy Matteo Ferrari CB 16 0 3 (2) 0 2 0 23 (2) 0 19 September 2004 Parma
22 Italy Max Tonetto LB 33 (2) 1 6 (2) 0 5 (3) 0 45 (7) 1 9 September 2006 Sampdoria
77 Italy Marco Cassetti RB 21 (6) 0 7 1 6 (1) 0 34 (7) 1 24 September 2006 Lecce
Midfielders
7 Chile David Pizarro PM 28 (3) 3 7 (3) 2 2 (3) 0 36 (9) 5 9 September 2006 Internazionale
8 Italy Alberto Aquilani CM 11 (10) 3 4 (1) 0 5 1 20 (11) 4 10 May 2003 Roma Primavera
11 Brazil Rodrigo Taddei W 25 (1) 6 6 1 3 (1) 0 34 (2) 7 28 August 2005 Siena
14 France Ludovic Giuly W 18 (14) 6 5 (4) 1 6 (1) 1 29 (18) 8 19 August 2007 Barcelona
16 Italy Daniele De Rossi DM 34 4 9 (1) 0 7 1 50 (1) 5 30 October 2001 Roma Primavera
20 Italy Simone Perrotta CM 25 (4) 5 6 1 5 (1) 1 36 (5) 7 12 September 2004 Chievo
26 Romania Adrian Piț W - - - - 1 0 1 0 19 December 2007 Bellinzona
29 Ghana Ahmed Barusso DM 0 (3) 0 1 (1) 0 - - 1 (4) 0 7 October 2007 Rimini
30 Brazil Mancini W 27 (4) 8 9 2 5 (1) 3 41 (5) 13 31 August 2003 Venezia
33 Italy Matteo Brighi CM 6 (18) 1 0 (2) 0 3 (3) 0 9 (23) 1 19 August 2007 Chievo
Forwards
9 Montenegro Mirko Vučinić FW 24 (9) 9 4 (4) 4 6 (1) 1 34 (12) 14 22 October 2006 Lecce
10 Italy Francesco Totti FW 24 14 6 1 3 (1) 3 31 (1) 18 28 March 1993 Roma Primavera
18 Italy Mauro Esposito WF 0 (8) 0 1 (5) 0 1 (1) 0 2 (14) 0 26 September 2007 Cagliari
36 Italy Claudio Della Penna FW - - - - 0 (1) 0 0 (1) 0 19 December 2007 Roma Primavera

Transfers

In

Romania MF Adrian Piț (free transfer, from Bellinzona)[23]
Ghana MF Ahmed Barusso (co-ownership from Rimini)[24]
Italy GK Carlo Zotti (loan return from Sampdoria)
Switzerland MF Daniel Unal (loan from Bellinzona)
Chile MF David Pizarro (full ownership from Internazionale)
Honduras MF Édgar Álvarez (loan return from Messina)
Brazil DF Juan (full ownership from Bayer Leverkusen)[25]
Italy FW Keivan Zarineh (free transfer, from Rieti)[23]
France MF Ludovic Giuly (from Barcelona)[26]
Italy DF Marco Andreolli (co-ownership from Internazionale)[27]
Italy DF Marco Cassetti (full ownership from Lecce)
Italy MF Matteo Brighi (loan return from Chievo)
Italy MF Mauro Esposito (co-ownership from Cagliari)[28]
Montenegro FW Mirko Vučinić (full ownership from Lecce)
Ghana DF Samuel Kuffour (loan return from Livorno)
Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Shabani Nonda (loan return from Blackburn Rovers)
Brazil DF Cicinho (full ownership from Real Madrid)
Portugal DF Vitorino Antunes (loan from Paços de Ferreira)

Out

Nigeria FW Adewade Dauda Wahab (loan, to Bellinzona)
Italy FW Alessandro Simonetta (full ownership, to Arezzo)
Italy FW Alessandro Tulli (co-ownership renewed, to Lecce)
Italy FW Alessio Cerci (loan, to Pisa)[29]
Italy MF Andrea Giacomini (loan, to Vicenza)[30]
Sweden MF Christian Wilhelmsson (end of loan, to Nantes)
Romania DF Cristian Chivu (to Internazionale)[31]
Italy DF Damiano Ferronetti (full ownership, to Parma)
Italy FW Daniele Corvia (full ownership, to Siena)
Italy MF Daniele Galloppa (co-ownership, to Siena)[32]
Italy DF Daniele Magliocchetti (loan, to Cagliari)[33]
Italy FW Francesco Tavano (end of loan, to Valencia)
Italy DF Gianluca Comotto (full ownership, to Torino)
Italy MF Gianluca Galasso (co-ownership, to Bari)[30]
Costa Rica DF Gilberto Martinez (end of loan, to Brescia)
Italy DF Giuseppe Scurto (full ownership, to Chievo)
Senegal MF Ricardo Faty (loan, to Bayer Leverkusen)[34]
Brazil DF Rodrigo Defendi (end of loan, to Tottenham Hotspur)
Italy MF Simone Palermo (loan, to Rimini)[35]
Italy FW Stefano Okaka (loan, to Modena)[36]
Italy MF Valerio Virga (loan, to Grosseto)[37]
Italy FW Vincenzo Montella (loan, to Sampdoria)[38]
Italy FW Keivan Zarineh (to Cisco Roma)[39]
Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Shabani Nonda (to Galatasaray)[40]
Honduras MF Édgar Álvarez (on loan to Livorno)
Italy DF Gianluca Freddi (to Grosseto)[41]
Italy GK Pietro Pipolo (on loan to Potenza)[42]
Ghana DF Samuel Kuffour (on loan to Ajax)
Italy DF Dario Polverini (loan to Prato)

Competitions

Supercoppa Italiana

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Serie A

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League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
 Qualification or relegation
1 Internazionale (C) 38 25 10 3 69 26 +43 85 2008–09 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Roma 38 24 10 4 72 37 +35 82
3 Juventus 38 20 12 6 72 37 +35 72 2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4 Fiorentina 38 19 9 10 55 39 +16 66
5 Milan 38 18 10 10 66 38 +28 64 2008–09 UEFA Cup First round
6 Sampdoria 38 17 9 12 56 46 +10 60
7 Udinese 38 16 9 13 48 53 −5 0571
8 Napoli 38 14 8 16 50 53 −3 50 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
9 Atalanta 38 12 12 14 52 56 −4 48
10 Genoa 38 13 9 16 44 52 −8 48
11 Palermo 38 12 11 15 47 57 −10 47
12 Lazio 38 11 13 14 47 51 −4 46
13 Siena 38 9 17 12 40 45 −5 44
14 Cagliari 38 11 9 18 40 56 −16 042*
15 Torino 38 8 16 14 36 49 −13 40
16 Reggina 38 9 13 16 37 56 −19 40
17 Catania 38 8 13 17 33 45 −12 37
18 Empoli (R) 38 9 9 20 29 52 −23 36 Relegation to Serie B
19 Parma (R) 38 7 13 18 42 62 −20 34
20 Livorno (R) 38 6 12 20 35 60 −25 30

Updated to games played on May 18, 2008.
Source: Serie A
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
1 The 7th-placed team qualified for the UEFA Cup due to both of the Coppa Italia finalists, Roma and Internazionale, finishing 6th or higher.
* Cagliari was docked 3 points for filing an unauthorized lawsuit, but the penalty was later reversed.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
38 24 10 4 72 37  +35 82 15 3 1 43 20  +23 9 7 3 29 17  +12

Last updated: 22 July 2015.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
Ground A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A A H A H H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H H A H A
Result W W W D D L W D W W D W W W D D W W W W L W L W D W W W L W D W W D W W W D

Last updated: 22 July 2015.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Coppa Italia

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Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

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UEFA Champions League

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Group stage

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Group F
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
England Manchester United 6 5 1 0 13 4 +9 16
Italy Roma 6 3 2 1 11 6 +5 11
Portugal Sporting CP 6 2 1 3 9 8 +1 7
Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 6 0 0 6 4 19 −15 0

Knockout phase

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Round of 16
Quarter-finals

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Goalscorers

Rank No. Pos Nat Name Serie A Supercoppa Coppa Italia UEFA CL Total
1 10 FW Italy Francesco Totti 14 0 3 1 18
2 9 FW Montenegro Mirko Vučinić 9 0 1 4 14
3 30 MF Brazil Mancini 8 0 3 2 13
4 14 MF France Ludovic Giuly 6 0 1 1 8
5 11 MF Brazil Rodrigo Taddei 6 0 0 1 7
20 MF Italy Simone Perrotta 5 0 1 1 7
7 2 DF Italy Christian Panucci 5 0 0 1 6
16 MF Italy Daniele De Rossi 5 1 0 0 6
9 7 MF Chile David Pizarro 3 0 0 1 4
8 MF Italy Alberto Aquilani 3 0 1 0 4
11 4 DF Brazil Juan 2 0 0 1 3
12 3 DF Brazil Cicinho 2 0 0 0 2
5 DF France Philippe Mexès 1 0 1 0 2
14 22 DF Italy Max Tonetto 1 0 0 0 1
33 MF Italy Matteo Brighi 1 0 0 0 1
77 DF Italy Marco Cassetti 0 0 0 1 1
Own goal 1 0 0 1 2
Totals 72 1 11 15 99

Last updated: 24 May 2008

References

  1. ↑ http://www.stadiapostcards.com/A07-08.htm
  2. ↑ Chivu negociaza noul contract cu AS Roma
  3. ↑ Chivu niente rinnovo!
  4. ↑ PROLUNGATO IL CONTRATTO PER LE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE DEL CALCIATORE PHILIPPE MEXES
  5. ↑ Chivu: Il Real Madrid si può rifiutare
  6. ↑ Chivu: "O vado all'Inter o rimango alla Roma"
  7. ↑ Spalletti: Dispiaciuto per fischi a Chivu
  8. ↑ Chivu resta alla Roma e Pradè si infuria
  9. ↑ CESSIONE DEL DIRITTO ALLE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE DEL CALCIATORE CRISTIAN EUGEN CHIVU
  10. ↑ OPERAZIONI DI TRASFERIMENTO DEI DIRITTI ALLE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE DEI CALCIATORI CERCI ALESSIO E RICARDO FATY
  11. ↑ OPERAZIONI DI TRASFERIMENTO DEI DIRITTI ALLE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE DEI CALCIATORI GALASSO, GALLOPPA, GIACOMINI, MAGLIOCHETTI E PALERMO
  12. ↑ La Supercoppa alla Roma!
  13. ↑ Questa Roma è da scudetto, c'è da scommetterci...
  14. ↑ L'Inter travolge la Roma all'Olimpico
  15. ↑ Il rammarico di Spalletti "Troppe palle-gol mancate"
  16. ↑ Rooney ammette: "La Roma meritava il pareggio"
  17. ↑ Roma stavolta a testa alta, ma rivince il Manchester
  18. ↑ Aquilani, almeno un mese di stop
  19. ↑ Vucinic affonda il Milan
  20. ↑ La Roma si riprende il derby
  21. ↑ The 2007–08 Coppa Italia appearances and goals also include the Supercoppa Italiana match
  22. ↑ Excluding the loans
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