Eight facts and figures after Roma v Bologna

-5 and -2

Francesco Totti, who supplied the assist for Mohamed Salah’s goal against Bologna, was making his 752nd appearance for the Giallorossi in all competitions and his 595th in Serie A, leaving him just five away from 600 appearances in the top flight of Italian football. Meanwhile, Daniele De Rossi – who returned to the starting line-up after a spell on the sidelines – was making his 384th Serie A appearance for the club, taking him to within two appearances of Giacomo Losi, the man currently occupying second spot in the all-time appearances chart behind Totti. De Rossi was also making it 20 league appearances for the season, a milestone he’s reached in each of the last 12 years.

6 from 10

Stephan El Shaarawy was making his tenth Serie A appearance for Roma on Monday night. With six goals from those matches, El Shaarawy is the fourth-most prolific player in Giallorossi history after ten games. Out of the eight Roma players to have scored six or more times in their first ten league appearances for the club – with six of these players recording the feat between 1928 and 1960 – El Shaarawy is the only man to have done it having joined the club midway through the season. It means that no Giallorossi player has a better scoring record after making their club debut in the second half of the season: Fernando Eusebio managed five in his first ten after making his debut six matches into the second half of the season back in 1928-29, when it was still the old Divisione Nazionale, while Dante Di Benedetti grabbed four in his first ten after making his debut three matches into the second half of the 1935-36 Serie A season, but neither can better Il Faraone.

13

Mohamed Salah has scored 13 goals this season – 12 in Serie A and one in the Champions League. The Egyptian forward, who scored Roma’s equaliser against Bologna on Monday night, is the first Giallorossi player to score 13 goals in a season since Mattia Destro in 2013-14. All of Destro’s goals came in Serie A.

21

After the two convincing wins over Palermo and Fiorentina, Roma have been held to two home draws in the league, against Inter and Bologna. Both matches finished 1-1, with the away side scoring first both times. In fact, if we look at all competitions, home and away, it’s been 21 games since the Giallorossi have gone on to win a game having been losing at half-time. It happened 14 times in the 2014-15 season (seven draws, seven defeats) and seven times in the present season (three draws, four defeats). The last time Roma battled back from a half-time deficit to win was the 3-1 win away at Parma on 16 September 2013. At home, the Giallorossi haven’t managed such a feat since the 4-2 defeat of Catania on 6 January 2011.

49-46-50

Bologna still have the better of the overall head-to-head record between the two sides. It stands at 49 Roma wins, 46 draws (including Monday night’s match) and 50 Bologna wins. There hadn’t been a 1-1 draw between Roma and Bologna since 29 January 2012, when Luis Enrique’s Giallorossi side were held at the Stadio Olimpico despite a Miralem Pjanic strike.

80

Kostas Manolas now has 80 appearances for the Giallorossi, with the Greek defender appearing in 39 of the 41 competitive fixtures Roma have played this year. Manolas is top of the club’s appearances charts this season – last year Miralem Pjanic and Radja Nainggolan were at the top come the end of the campaign with 46 appearances each. Overall, Manolas is just behind current squad members Leandro Castan (81) and Morgan De Sanctis (83), with the veteran keeper some way off Nainggolan (102), Alessandro Florenzi (163), Pjanic (181), Daniele De Rossi (517) and Francesco Totti (752).

100

Mohamed Salah’s goal was Roma’s 100th against Bologna in the top tier of Italian football. The Egyptian’s equaliser means the Giallorossi have scored at least one goal in each of their last 26 matches against Bologna (25 in the league and one in the Coppa Italia). The scoring run extends to 28 matches when considering home games only.

145

The 145th match between Roma and Bologna saw the Giallorossi held to their 23rd home draw by the Rossoblu in Italy’s top tier (22 in Serie A and one in the old Divisione Nazionale). Out of 69 home league matches against Bologna, the Giallorossi have won 28, drawn 23 and lost 18.