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Join us for all the build-up and action as it happens from the Europa League with Roma vs. Athletic Club and Viktoria Plzen vs. Lazio, plus Panathinaikos vs. Fiorentina for the Conference League.
We enter the knockout stage of these competitions with the Round of 16 first leg ties.
Fiorentina are in Greece against Panathinaikos at 17.45 GMT.
Roma host Athletic Club and Lazio visit Viktoria Plzen at 20.00 GMT.
Comuzzo gives it away cheaply, Swiderski pulls back from the by-line and Moreno is there to block.
Tete free kick into the box, but easy for Terracciano. This time.
23′
Panathinaikos 2-2 Fiorentina: Nicolo’ Fagioli!
What a game this is!
Ball floated over the top, Gosens volleys it back for Fagioli’s first-time finish from 12 yards, it takes a deflection to wrong-foot Dragowski at the near bottom corner, he had gone the other way!
Fiorentina chance!
This game is not dull!
Beltran goes down in the box, everyone ignores him, Fagioli manages to squirm between two only to then not get enough bend on the curler, past the far post!
20′
Panathinaikos 2-1 Fiorentina: Lucas Beltran!
OK, OK, here we go!
Mandragora long ball down the left, Gosens gets it under control and puts in a cross, Beltran with the header from six yards into the roof of the net!
19′
Panathinaikos 2-0 Fiorentina: Nemanja Maksimovic
Oh dear.
Djuricic involved again with a fairly simple snapshot from the edge of the box. Should be simple, but Terracciano spills it and Maksimovic pounces on the rebound. Dreadful from Pietro Terracciano.
Fiorentina are frustratingly slow with the ball at their feet. Not going to break down Panathinaikos like that.
Kean was offside, which is just as well because he slipped and got it all wrong.
Corner finds Ranieri’s looping header that lands on the roof of the net. He was fairly unmarked there.
Gosens cross from the left for Beltran, who gets blocked off for another corner.
Corner doesn’t go well, then Kean gets his head to a cross, but can only knock it down for Dragowski.
Fiorentina fight back, series of crosses until they get a corner.
5′
Panathinaikos 1-0 Fiorentina: Karol Swiderski!
The ex-Verona player opens the scoring so early.
Fiorentina allowed a few too many passes on the edge of the area there, then a smart Djuricic through ball for Maksimovic, who laid it off for Swiderski first-time left-foot sweep from just inside the box, it looped over Terracciano into the far top corner.
Tete snapshot from outside the area is charged down.
Marin Pongracic had a bruised leg and is only fit for the bench, Ndour and Pablo Mari are cup-tied.
The Viola are the Rossa today, because they are all in red.
1′
We have kick-off in Panathinaikos vs. Fiorentina!
Panathinaikos: Dragowski; Kotsiras, Willian Arao, Ingason, Mladenovic; Maksimovic, Siopis, Ounhai; Tetê, Swiderski, Djuricic
Fiorentina: Terracciano; Moreno, Comuzzo, Ranieri; Dodo, Fagioli, Mandragora, Richardson, Dodo; Kean, Beltran
Ref: Lambrechts (BEL)
The Viola have Moise Kean back after he was given the all-clear for a head injury, but miss Yacine Adli, Michael Folorunsho and Andrea Colpani.
The hosts have ex-Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski and former Sassuolo striker Filip Djuricic in the side, but Tin Jedvaj, Tasos Bakasetas, Erik Palmer-Brown and Facundo Pellistri are not fully fit.
This is an absolutely massive stadium. So it’s…. quite empty.
Out come the teams!
Fiorentina director general Alessandro Ferrari
Now this is how you announce a team!
Sky Sport Italia also insist UEFA have the order wrong on the Panathinaikos team, which again would not be surprising.
Panathinaikos: Dragowski; Kotsiras, Willian Arao, Ingason, Mladenovic; Maksimovic, Siopis, Ounhai; Tetê, Swiderski, Djuricic
Aha! Sky Sport Italia are confident this is 3-5-2. So not for the first time, UEFA have the right players, but not necessarily in the right order.
Panathinaikos won their last three Conference League home games, all with clean sheets.
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