For many minutes, Roma did not offer their best face in Bern on Thursday against Young Boys, who went ahead on the scoreboard. But in the second part the ‘giallorosso’ team came back with goals from Bruno Peres and Marash Kumbulla and thus started with victory in the group of the group stage of the Europa League. It was the triumph of the most 'spagnola' Roma, since they went out to play against the Young Boys with five Spanish players in the starting lineup: Pedro, Pau López, Carles Pérez, Gonzalo Villar and Borja Mayoral (in his first match as a starter) .
Paulo Fonseca, coach of Roma, made many changes compared to the eleven that beat Benevento on Sunday (5-2), with a goal from Carles Pérez included and both from Pedro. The truth is that the ‘giallorosso’ team did not have depth in the first half and also the Young Boys took the lead thanks to a bit of penalty, committed by Cristante on Rieder and transformed by Jean Pierre Nsame at minute 14.
Roma could not find their own game against the Swiss team, but began to improve in the final stretch. The reaction occurred in the second part. In five magical minutes, he first leveled the scoreboard Bruno Peres at 69 'after a great pass from Edin Dzeko and in 74 'he scored the second, thanks to a header from Marash Kumbulla after receiving the ball from Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Fonseca had left Dzeko on the starting bench but came in at 59 'for Borja Mayoral. Mkhitaryan relieved Pedro in the same minute. In the 86 'Elia was able to achieve the tie for the Young Boys, but Pau López prevented it with his intervention.