Top Five: Great Giallorossi performances in Spain

Ahead of Sunday's friendly against Celta Vigo, we look back on five of the best Roma performances on Spanish soil in recent years...

5. Barcelona 1-1 Roma, 20-2-2002

On 20 February 2002 Italian champions Roma rolled up in Barcelona with high expectations despite finding themselves pitted against Galatasaray, Liverpool and Barcelona in the Champions League second group stage. Fabio Capello set the Giallorossi up to frustrate their hosts and that they did, before taking the lead courtesy of a striker's finish from Christian Panucci. Sadly, a defensive mix-up allowed Patrick Kluivert to net a late equaliser.

4. Villarreal 0-4 Roma, 16-2-2017

When the Giallorossi travelled to the Madrigal on 16 February 2017 to take on a Villarreal side boasting an excellent home defensive record, few would have predicted such a scoreline. And yet Roma put four unanswered goals past the hosts to all but settle their Europa League last-16 tie with the second leg still to play. Emerson Palmieri opened the scoring in the 32nd minute with a superb hit into the top corner before Edin Dzeko took centre stage. The Bosnian fired home with his left after selling his marker a clever dummy, added a second with his right then completed his hat-trick with another fine left-footed finish.

3. Valencia 0-3 Roma, 26-2-2003

Roma visited Valencia on 26 February 2003 in the second group stage of the Champions League looking to make up for their defeat in the reverse fixture at the Olimpico, as well as previous losses to Ajax and Arsenal. And they sewed up the points in 12 first-half minutes thanks to a scintillating display by Francesco Totti. Il Capitano headed past Santiago Canizares midway through the half, then put away the second with his right before playing in Emerson for the third.

2. Real Madrid 0-1 Roma, 30-10-2002

Thirty-five years after Helenio Herrera's Inter, Fabio Capello's Roma became the second Italian side to ransack the Santiago Bernabeu on 30 October 2002. The only goal came when Vincenzo Montella wreaked havoc in the Real rearguard and pulled back for Francesco Totti to slam an unstoppable finish past Iker Casillas. It was a historic result for the Giallorossi, who returned to the Italian capital needing just a draw at home against AEK Athens to qualify.

1. Real Madrid 1-2 Roma, 8-3-2008

Luciano Spalletti's Roma made the trip to Madrid on 5 March 2008 for the second leg of their Champions League tie holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg at the Olimpico. Having contained the hosts for 73 minutes, the Giallorossi broke the deadlock when Rodrigo Taddei headed Max Tonetto's inch-perfect cross into the corner, leaving Iker Casillas flat-footed. Real responded instantly and levelled through Raul but Roma kept plugging away and nicked an injury-time winner. Christian Panucci curled in a free kick and Mirko Vucinic got on the end of it, sending the thousands of travelling Giallorossi fans into raptures.