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Sassuolo vs AS Roma pairs Roma’s established Italian stature with a challenger capable of making the game technically awkward. Roma won 1–0 at the MAPEI Stadium in October 2025 and 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in January 2026. Sassuolo’s 4–3 victory in Rome in March 2023 remains a vivid exception, while earlier meetings also produced draws and open scorelines. The evidence gives Roma a clear hierarchy with room for Sassuolo to test it again.
Past matches, Sassuolo vs AS Roma
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes AS Roma
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32G
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91G
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2D
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3D
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24D
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43D
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60M
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68F
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69M
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76D
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77D
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92F
Sassuolo Substitutes
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G
12
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G
13
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G
16
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F
9
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F
14
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D
17
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F
24
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D
26
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D
31
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D
34
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M
40
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M
44
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F
77
Match events
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22'Manu Koné Yellow Card
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23'Mario Hermoso Yellow Card
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39'S. El Shaarawy E. Ferguson
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59'Arijanet Murić Yellow Card
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61'Matías Soulé Penalty cancelled
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62'Wesley Franca K. Tsimikas
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72'A. Vranckx L. Lipani
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73'W. Cheddira A. Fadera
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76'⚽M. Kone Normal Goal (Asst: M. Soule)
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79'⚽M. Soule Normal Goal (Asst: S. El Shaarawy)
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83'L. Moro A. Pinamonti
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83'E. Iannoni I. Kone
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83'N. Pierini A. Lauriente
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85'Nemanja Matić Yellow Card
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87'D. Rensch Z. Celik
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87'J. Ziolkowski G. Mancini
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87'A. Romano M. Soule
Stats for this game
Matchup Sassuolo VS AS Roma
Hierarchy with a disruptive challenger
AS Roma bring the greater institutional weight, home profile and expectation, while Sassuolo have shown that technical confidence can unsettle that order. Roma won 1–0 at the MAPEI Stadium on 26 October 2025 and 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico on 10 January 2026, giving the capital club a clear foothold in the later meetings. Yet Sassuolo won 4–3 in Rome on 12 March 2023, while a 2–2 draw in Reggio Emilia on 13 February 2022 underlined how open this contest can become.
Control or disruption?
The two grounds sharpen the contrast. At the Olimpico, Roma are expected to dictate territory and protect their authority; at the MAPEI Stadium, Sassuolo can play with the freedom to draw a larger club into uncomfortable exchanges. The attraction lies in whether Roma can keep the game structured and whether Sassuolo can make technical variation count. A future meeting will revisit that durable question: does the established side impose its hierarchy, or does the challenger create enough disorder to change the expected script?