A.S. Roma 2006-07

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AS Roma
Season 2006-07
Manager	Luciano Spalletti
League position	2nd
Top goalscorer	League: Francesco Totti (26) All: Francesco Totti (31)
Coppa Italia	Winner
Supercoppa Italiana	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Quarter-finals

During the 2006-07 football season, AS Roma played its 74th Serie A league finishing runner-up; the UEFA Champion's League finishing as quarter-finalist, and the Coppa Italia winning the trophy for the eighth time.

Contents 1 Team Kit and Sponsors 2 Events 3 Squad 4 Results 4.1 Serie A 4.2 UEFA Champions League 4.3 Coppa Italia 4.4 Supercoppa Italiana 5 References

[edit] Team Kit and Sponsors

During this season, Roma's kits had no sponsor for the second consecutive year and were produced by Diadora.

Home kit

Away kit

Champions League kit

[edit] Events

Roma finished the Serie A 2005-06 in the fifth place, but after the sentences of the Serie A scandal of 2006 that deducted many points to Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina, Roma finished 2nd after Inter Milan, and thus gaining the qualification to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2006-07.

The summer transfer window brought some changes in the Roma tactical formation, the most important was the signing of David Pizarro, a deep-lying playmaker that the coach Luciano Spalletti had already had when he was at Udinese, and considered fundamental for Roma's skill play. Another important signing was Max Tonetto, that took the place of left fullback Leandro Cufré, that was sold to AS Monaco. Other players such as Mirko Vučinić, Matteo Ferrari, Marco Cassetti and Ricardo Faty were signed to get the squad bigger.

The first match of the season was the Supercoppa Italiana against Inter Milan, the match was played on 26 August 2006 in San Siro and, after the 34th minute Roma were leading 0-3 with two goals by Alberto Aquilani and one by Amantino Mancini. However, the physical condition of the giallorossi was still weak and so, the nerazzurri succeeded in reaching the draw with two goals by Patrick Vieira and one by Hernán Crespo; on extra-time Inter scored the fourth and winning goal with a free kick by Luís Figo.

In the first part of the season Roma, Inter Milan and US Palermo chased themselves to the top of the league but early, Inter started to lead the Serie A and kept the first place until the end. During the winter summer window Vincenzo Montella was loaned to Fulham FC because he didn't have many chances to play and wanted to try the English Premier League, he was replaced with the loans of Francesco Tavano and Christian Wilhelmsson.

Roma ware drawn for the Group D of the UEFA Champions League 2006-07 together with Valencia CF, Shakhtar Donetsk and Olympiakos, and arrived second after Valencia with 10 points (3 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeat). In the first knockout round Roma had to play against Olympique Lyon, a team that had already won 6 consecutive French championships and were the favourites to pass the round^[1], however after a 0-0 draw in Stadio Olimpico (with many controversial decisions by English referee Micheal Riley that yellow carded eleven players^[2]), Roma won 0-2 in Stade Gerland with goals by Francesco Totti and Amantino Mancini that scored a sensational goal performing a total of 5 stepovers in front of Lyon's dazed defender Anthony Réveillère^[3].

In the quarter-finals Roma faced Manchester United, winning the first leg 2-1 with goals by Rodrigo Taddei and Mirko Vučinić, but in the second leg, after being undefeated in 10 games in all competitions and having the then-best performing defense of the tournament, they suffered an amazing 7-1 defeat at Old Trafford.

Roma won their eighth Coppa Italia after beating US Triestina, AC Parma, AC Milan and finally Inter Milan. Roma won the two final games with an aggregate result of 7-4; the first leg ended with a surprising 6-2 while the second leg, though Inter's president Massimo Moratti claimed that they didn't care a lot about the Coppa Italia^[4], was played with animosity and determination by the nerazzurri^[5], but the result of 2-1 gave the trophy to Roma.

Roma ended the Serie A 2006-07 as runners-up and secured the second place with three games to go, behind Inter Milan. Although the nerazzurri dominated the championship, they lost the match against giallorossi 1-3 in San Siro, the same stadium in which Roma also beat 1-2 the 2007 Champions League winner AC Milan, with two goals by Francesco Totti. The Roma captain scored an amount of 31 goals in the season, and became the Serie A topscorer with 26 goals and also won the European Golden Boot, the trophy awarded to the best topscorer of Europe.

[edit] Squad

As of 28 May 2007:
In italics, players involved in transfer during the season

No.		Player	Pos	Lge Apps	Lge Gls	CL Apps	CL Gls	CI Apps	CI Gls	Tot Apps	Tot Gls	First Match with AS Roma	Previous Club
Goalkeepers
1		Gianluca Curci	GK	6	0	-	-	5	0	11	0	19 Dec 2004	AS Roma Primavera
12		Pietro Pipolo	GK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	AS Roma Primavera
27		Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli	GK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	América FC
32		Doni	GK	31	0	10	0	2	0	43	0	23 Oct 2005	Juventude
Defenders
2		Christian Panucci	RB	29 (5)	5	9	1	6	0	44 (5)	6	23 Sep 2001	AS Monaco FC
5		Philippe Mexès	CB	26	3	7	0	5	0	38	3	12 Sep 2004	AJ Auxerre
13		Cristian Chivu	CB	25	0	8	0	5 (1)	0	38 (1)	0	14 Sep 2003	Ajax AFC
19		Rodrigo Defendi	CB	0	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	2006	Tottenham FC
21		Matteo Ferrari	CB	23 (3)	1	6	0	4	0	33 (3)	1	19 Sep 2004	Parma FC
22		Max Tonetto	LB	27 (3)	0	7	0	4 (2)	0	38 (5)	0	9 Sep 2006	UC Sampdoria
25		Leandro Cufré	LB	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	22 Sep 2002	Gimnasia La Plata
33		Gianluca Freddi	CB	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2005	AS Roma Primavera
77		Marco Cassetti	RB	18 (10)	2	7 (1)	0	1 (4)	0	26 (15)	2	24 Sep 2006	US Lecce
Midfielders
4		Christian Wilhelmsson	W	12 (7)	1	2 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	16 (9)	1	9 Sep 2006	Nantes Atlantique
7		David Pizarro	PM	29 (2)	1	5 (2)	1	5 (1)	3	39 (5)	5	9 Sep 2006	Inter Milan
8		Alberto Aquilani	MF	8 (4)	1	4 (1)	0	2	2	14 (5)	5	10 May 2003	AS Roma Primavera
11		Rodrigo Taddei	W	24 (4)	5	8	2	5	0	37 (4)	7	28 Aug 2005	AC Siena
14		Ricardo Faty	DM	3 (7)	0	1 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	4 (10)	0	17 Sep 2006	RC Strasbourg
16		Daniele De Rossi	MF	33 (2)	2	10	2	7	1	50 (2)	5	25 Jan 2003	AS Roma Primavera
18		Valerio Virga	W	1 (2)	0	1	0	1	1	3 (2)	1	10 Apr 2005	AS Roma Primavera
20		Simone Perrotta	MF	32 (2)	8	7 (2)	1	5 (2)	3	44 (6)	12	12 Sep 2004	Chievo Verona
28		Aleandro Rosi	W	4 (13)	2	0 (4)	0	1 (3)	0	5 (20)	2	28 May 2005	AS Roma Primavera
30		Mancini	W	25 (4)	8	7	1	7	3	39 (4)	12	31 Aug 2003	Atlético Mineiro
34		Massimiliano Marsili	MF	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	10 Apr 2005	AS Roma Primavera
Forwards
9		Vincenzo Montella	FW	5 (7)	3	0 (3)	0	1	1	6 (10)	4	29 Aug 1999	UC Sampdoria
10		Francesco Totti	FW	34	26	9	4	5	1	48	31	28 Mar 1993	AS Roma Primavera
17		Francesco Tavano	FW	7 (7)	2	0	0	0 (2)	0	7 (9)	2	12 Sep 2004	Valencia CF
23		Mirko Vučinić	FW	5 (19)	2	2 (4)	1	1	0	8 (23)	3	22 Oct 2006	US Lecce
35		Stefano Okaka Chuka	WF	0 (6)	1	0 (3)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (10)	1	10 Dec 2005	AS Roma Primavera
99		Mido	FW	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	19 Sep 2004	Olympique Marseille

[edit] Results

[edit] Serie A

Round	Date and time	Opponent team	Home/Away	Result	Goal Scorers
1 A	September 9, 2006 – 18.00	Livorno	H	2-0	De Rossi, Mancini
2 A	September 17, 2006 – 15.00	Siena	A	1-3	Taddei, Pizarro, Okaka
3 A	September 20, 2006 – 20.30	Inter	H	0-1
4 A	September 24, 2006 – 15.00	Parma	A	0-4	Montella, Perrotta, Rosi, Aquilani
5 A	October 1, 2006 – 15.00	Empoli	H	1-0	Montella
6 A	October 15, 2006 – 15.00	Reggina	A	1-0
7 A	October 22, 2006 – 15.00	Chievo Verona	H	1-1	Totti
8 A	October 25, 2006 – 20.30	Ascoli	H	2-2	Totti, Mexès
9 A	October 28, 2006 – 18.00	Udinese	A	0-1	Ferrari
10 A	November 5, 2006 – 20.30	Fiorentina	H	3-1	De Rossi, Taddei, Taddei
11 A	November 11, 2006 – 20.30	Milan	A	1-2	Totti (2)
12 A	November 19, 2006 – 15.00	Catania	H	7-0	Panucci (2), Mancini, Perrotta (2), Montella, Totti
13 A	November 26, 2006 – 15.00	Sampdoria	A	2-4	Totti (2), Perrotta, Panucci
14 A	December 2, 2006 – 20.30	Atalanta	H	2-1	Totti (2)
15 A	December 10, 2006 – 20.30	Lazio	A	3-0
16 A	December 17, 2006 – 20.30	Palermo	H	4-0	Mancini (2), Totti (2)
17 A	December 20, 2006 – 20.30	Torino	A	1-2	Totti, Mancini
18 A	December 23, 2006 – 15.00	Cagliari	H	2-0	Taddei, Mancini
19 A	January 14, 2007 – 15.00	Messina	A	1-1	Mancini
1 R	January 21, 2007 – 15.00	Livorno	A	1-1	Totti
2 R	January 28, 2007 – 15.00	Siena	H	1-0	Vučinić
4 R	February 11, 2007 – 15.00	Parma	H	3-0	Totti, Perrotta, Taddei
5 R	February 17, 2007 – 15.00	Empoli	A	1-0
6 R	February 25, 2007 – 15.00	Reggina	H	3-0	Tavano, Mexès, Panucci
7 R	February 28, 2007 – 15.00	Chievo Verona	A	2-2	Totti (2)
8 R	March 3, 2007 – 15.00	Ascoli	A	1-1	Wilhelmsson
9 R	March 11, 2007 – 20.30	Udinese	H	3-1	Totti (2), Perrotta
10 R	March 18, 2007 – 15.00	Fiorentina	A	0-0
11 R	March 31, 2007 – 20.30	Milan	H	1-1	Mexès
12 R	April 7, 2007 – 15.00	Catania	N	0-2	Tavano, Vučinić
13 R	April 15, 2007 – 15.00	Sampdoria	H	4-0	Totti (2), Ferrari, Panucci
3 R	April 18, 2007 – 17.30	Inter	A	1-3	Perrotta, Totti, Cassetti
14 R	April 22, 2007 – 15.00	Atalanta	A	2-1	Perrotta
15 R	April 29, 2007 – 15.00	Lazio	H	0-0
16 R	May 6, 2007 – 15.00	Palermo	A	1-2	Totti, Cassetti
17 R	May 13, 2007 – 15.00	Torino	H	0-1
18 R	May 20, 2007 – 15.00	Cagliari	A	3-2	Totti (2)
19 R	May 27, 2007 – 15.00	Messina	H	4-3	Totti (2), Mancini, Rosi

[edit] UEFA Champions League

Round	Date and time	Opponent team	Home/Away	Result
Group D - Match 1	September 12, 2006 – 20.45	Shakhtar Donetsk	H	4-0	Taddei, Totti, De Rossi, Pizarro
Group D - Match 2	September 27, 2006 – 20.45	Valencia	A	2-1	Totti
Group D - Match 3	October 18, 2006 – 20.45	Olympiacos	A	0-1	Perrotta
Group D - Match 4	October 31, 2006 – 20.45	Olympiacos	H	1-1	Totti
Group D - Match 5	November 22, 2006 – 19.00	Shakhtar Donetsk	A	1-0
Group D - Match 6	December 5, 2006 – 20.45	Valencia	H	1-0	Panucci
Round of 16 - 1st leg	February 21, 2007 – 20.45	Olympique Lyon	H	0-0
Round of 16 - 2nd leg	March 6, 2007 – 20.45	Olympique Lyon	A	0-2	Totti, Mancini
Quarter-finals - 1st leg	April 4, 2007 – 20.45	Manchester United	H	2-1	Taddei, Vučinić
Quarter-finals - 2nd leg	April 10, 2007 – 20.45	Manchester United	A	7-1	De Rossi

[edit] Coppa Italia

Round	Date and time	Opponent team	Home/Away	Result
Round of 16 - 1st leg	November 8, 2006 – 20.30	Triestina	A	1-2	Montella (2)
Round of 16 - 2nd leg	November 29, 2006 – 17.00	Triestina	H	2-0	Virga, Montella
Quarter-finals - 1st leg	January 10, 2007 – 21.00	Parma	H	2-1	Mancini, Totti
Quarter-finals - 2nd leg	January 17, 2007 – 17.30	Parma	A	2-2	De Rossi, Pizarro
Semi-finals - 1st leg	January 25, 2007 – 21.15	Milan	A	2-2	Perrotta, Pizarro
Semi-finals - 2nd leg	January 31, 2007 – 21.15	Milan	H	3-1	Mancini, Perrotta, Pizarro
Final - 1st leg	May 9, 2007 – 18.00	Inter	H	6-2	Totti, De Rossi, Perrotta, Mancini, Panucci (2)
Final - 2nd leg	May 17, 2007 – 17.30	Inter	A	2-1	Perrotta

[edit] Supercoppa Italiana

Round	Date and time	Opponent team	Home/Away	Result
Final	August 26, 2006 – 20.45	Inter	A	4-3a.e.t.	Aquilani (2), Mancini

[edit] References

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