In stats: 10 numbers from Roma's defeat in Sofia

We’ve picked out some notable numbers from Roma’s 3-1 loss to CSKA Sofia that may well have ended the Europa League group stage campaign in defeat, but it also marked memorable beginnings in the careers of three teenagers...

1

Mory Bamba - who at 18 years, 192-days-old became Roma's youngest foreign-born player to play in the UEFA Cup or Europa League - and Pietro Boer made the first professional appearances of their careers, while Tommaso Milanese scored his first senior goal.

3

Milanese may have been making his full debut, but this was his third appearance for the Giallorossi, with the Italy Under-18 international’s two previous outings coming as a substitute in this year’s Europa League campaign.

4

Primavera skipper Filippo Tripi’s nine-minute cameo at the death made him the fourth 18-year-old to get on the pitch for Roma in Sofia.

6

This was CSKA’s first0ever win over Roma at the sixth attempt, with the Giallorossi winning four and drawing one more of the five previous meetings between the two in Europe.

7

This defeat ended Roma’s seven-game unbeaten run (W5, D2) in the Europa League group stage under Paulo Fonseca.

10

Milanese became Roma’s 10th different UEL goalscorer already this season with his first half equaliser - only Arsenal (11) have had a greater variety of scorers.

45

Coming on as a second half substitute, Chris Smalling got 45 minutes under his belt as he made his first appearance since Roma beat Genoa 3-1 on 8 November five games ago.

192

Such is the inexperience of the Primavera starting trio that the combined squad numbers of Bamba (67), Boer (63) and Milanese (62) total 192.

625

Roma attempted a whopping 625 passes and completed 545 of them, which is more than double (273) the amount of passes Sofia even tried to make (272), let alone complete (193).

2002

Milanese is only the third Italian player born after 1/1/2002 to score in a senior UEFA club competition, joining AC Milan's Lorenzo Colombo and teammate Riccardo Calafiori on the list, while he became Roma's second youngest (18 years, 132 days) UEFA Cup or Europa League goalscorer behind only Filippo Scardina (17 years, 293 days).