Should they succeed, instead, the ‘Yellow-Reds’ would secure an eighth consecutive home victory against those from Salento.

The ‘Roma’ will return to the ‘Olimpico’ stadium for the fifteenth game in Serie A against ‘Lecce’. A crucial challenge for the team led by Mister ‘Ranieri’, who will kick off a trio of games against their current rivals for survival. “December will tell us who we are, we must fight to climb up the leaderboard,” said the Testaccio coach at the pre-match press conference. On the other side is the team of Gaipaolo, also at his third match of the 2024-25 season, following two positive results (a win at Penzo against Venice and a home draw at Via del Mare against Juventus), who can boast the same points as Roma in the standings, with a total of 13. It’s been since the 2005/06 season that the Romans have been winning at home against the Salentians and, in case of success tomorrow as well, the same statistic covering the period from the 1989/90 to the 2003/04 would be matched.

However, should Lecce emerge victorious at the Olympic Stadium, leaving Roma at 13 points, it would mark a new negative record. The team, first led by Juric and later Ranieri, has not won a championship match since October 31st, surpassing Torino with a home ground score of 1-0. From that point onward, Roma has suffered losses against Verona, Bologna – a devastating 3-2 defeat that sealed the fate of the Croatian coach, Napoli, and Atalanta: a streak of four straight losses. To uncover a worse statistic in Roma’s history, one must turn back to the 1950/51 season, over 70 years ago, when Roma suffered five consecutive losses between February and March. Also in that year, the yellow-reds tallied a mere 10 points after 15 rounds: if Roma were to register its fifth consecutive defeat in the league tomorrow, this would amount to the second-worst performance after 15 games in history (13 points after 14 games, however, was also a milestone reached in the 1978/79 campaign). Marcello Spaziani