Roma 5-1 Cesena: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 21 January 2012
Result
Roma 5-1 Cesena
Serie A · Saturday 21 January 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Roma 5-1 Cesena: match report
Roma defeated Cesena 5-1 in Serie A on Saturday 21 January 2012. The half-time score was 3-0.
Francesco Totti opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Roma's goals came from Francesco Totti (1'), Francesco Totti (8'), Fabio Borini (9'), Juan (62') and Miralem Pjanic (70'). Cesena scored through Éder (58').
Discipline: Roma received no yellow cards; Cesena received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Roma were 7th on 27 points from 17 and Cesena 18th on 15 points from 18. Roma went on to finish that season 7th with 56 points, and Cesena 20th with 22.
Roma lined up in a 4-3-3 and Cesena in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Roma win, 1 draw and 0 for Cesena.
Going into the match Roma's last five read W-W-W-D-L and Cesena's W-L-L-L-W.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Francesco Totti
- 8'Goal · Francesco Totti
- 9'Goal · Fabio Borini
- 58'Goal · Éder
- 62'Goal · Juan
- 70'Goal · Miralem Pjanic
- 77'Yellow card · Y. Benalouane
Head-to-head
Team news
Roma expected line-up (4-3-3)
Nicolás Burdisso, Aleandro Rosi, David Pizarro, Simone Perrotta, Daniele De Rossi, Francesco Totti, Marco Borriello, Pablo Osvaldo, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Bogdan Lobonț
Cesena line-up (4-4-2)
Francesco Antonioli, Guillermo Rodríguez, Maurizio Lauro, Gianluca Comotto, Steve von Bergen, Luca Ceccarelli, Roberto Guana, Giuseppe Colucci, Marco Parolo, Éder, Adrian Mutu