Stat Attack: Facts to know ahead of Parma game

Recent history bodes well

Roma have lost just one of the last 18 meetings in Serie A between these two sides - winning 14 of those and drawing the other three.

Roma making life hard

Parma have lost 12 of their last 24 home games against Roma in Serie A - winning eight of those and drawing the four. THe Giallorossi have beaten Parma at home more than any other side in that span.

The great wall of Parma

Parma have not conceded in each of their last two games in Serie A - it's the second time this season the side have kept back-to-back clean sheets... having previously failed to manage it since February 2014.

Gialloblu on the move

Having lost two of their opening five home games in this season's championship, Parma have since gone unbeaten in the last four.

Roma and goals

In five of the last seven Serie A games Roma have scored at least twice - in the other two, however, the Giallorossi failed to get on the scoresheet.

Pay attention to the first half

No team has scored more goals in the first half this season than Roma (16). Parma, meanwhile, have scored the highest percentage of their goals in the first half of games - 12 of 17 (71%)

Sharing the goals around

Roma have seen 16 different players score goals already this season - no side in Europe's top-five leagues can beat that record (Borussia Dortmund have also managed 16).

Another day, another ex

Winger Gervinho could well start for Parma on Saturday - the Ivory Coast international made 71 appearances for Roma earlier in his career - scoring 17 goals and adding 15 assists.

Florenzi knows the scores

Alessandro Florenzi is the only current Roma player to have scored against Parma: putting the first on the board as the Giallorossi roared back to win 3-1 in September 2013.

Parma a historic opponent - for Roma and Totti

For Roma, facing Parma is a significant game. Few will ever forget the match at the Stadio Olimpico back in June 2001, when a 3-1 guaranteed a third Scudetto title for the Giallorossi (Totti, Montella and Batistuta scoring the goals).Il Parma, per la Roma, ha significato tanto.

For Totti it is not the only milestone: in December 2004 the captain scored against Parma twice to pass Roberto Pruzzo as the club's all-time leading Serie A goalscorer. Then, nine years later, Totti scored against the same opponent to make it 226 goals in Serie A - passing Gunnar Nordahl to become the second all-time leading goalscorer in Italian league history.