Serie A | Roma 3-0 Sassuolo: Aquilani comfortably swept aside

Roma made short work of sorry Sassuolo with Mario Hermoso, an own goal and Rodrigo Mora, inflicting a fifth consecutive defeat on Alberto Aquilani’s side.

The Giallorossi were still smarting after fumbling a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at Manchester United midweek, suffering new injuries to Pierluigi Gollini, Gianluca Mancini and Devyne Rensch, with Paulo Dybala, Mile Svilar and Lorenzo Pellegrini still out, but Manu Koné was back for the first time since his thigh injury on October 14.

Sassuolo lost four on the bounce under coach Alberto Aquilani, facing his former club for the first time here, missing Domenico Berardi, Cristian Volpato, Daniel Boloca, Ismael Koné and Fedde Leysen, so they switched to 3-5-2.

See how it all unfolded on the Liveblog.

Third-choice goalkeeper Devis Vasquez had to get down and fingertip a Nemanja Matic angled drive round the far post in the opening minutes, while Duje Caleta-Car needed a goal-line clearance on the Leonardo Balerdi looping header from a Rodrigo Mora corner kick routine.

Mora’s deflected effort skimmed the crossbar, but Roma broke the deadlock when Mario Hermoso surged forward and tried to set up Donyell Malen, but as it came back to him following the exchange of passes, he fired it into the roof of the net himself from 14 yards.

Malen was involved in the second goal moments later, but his angled drive was probably going off target before the double deflection off Jay Idzes and Sebastian Walukiewicz to wrong-foot Muric.

Leonardo Balerdi also tested Muric after running into the box, as did Matias Soulé, but straight after the restart Roma made a comical mess of a huge opportunity.

Soulé sprung the offside trap to go clear and dribbled around Muric, but instead of scoring into an empty net, he tried to roll it across for Malen, whose positioning was all wrong because he wasn’t expecting the pass.

Malen did test Muric when sent through by Hermoso, and the third goal finally arrived when Mora completed a give and go with Malen to drill through Caleta-Car’s legs into the far bottom corner with his right foot.

Malen again failed to make the most of a situation after dribbling around Muric, as Caleta-Car was there to clean up in front of the open goal, while Niccolò Pisilli also stung the goalkeeper’s gloves at the near post, as it could’ve been far more than three goals.

Hermoso 27 (R), Walukiewicz og 30 (R), Mora 58 (R)

07-11-2026 19:45

MatchDay 11

Stadio Olimpico (Rome)

3 - 0

1st half

2nd half

65

Possession %

35

28

Total shots

6

9

Shots on target

1

10

Shots off target

4

9

Blocked shots

1

12

Corners

1

1

Offsides

1

8

Fouls

13

Roma

Sassuolo

32

Devis Vásquez

Goalkeeper

5

Evan Ndicka

Defender

26

Leonardo Balerdi

Defender

85'

22

Mario Hermoso

Defender

77'

20

Nahuel Molina

Defender

43

Wesley

Defender

4

Bryan Cristante

Midfielder

17

Manu Koné

Midfielder

66'

86

Rodrigo Mora

Midfielder

66'

14

Donyell Malen

Attacker

77'

18

Matìas Soulé

Attacker

49

Arijanet Muric

Goalkeeper

15

Duje Caleta-Car

Defender

90'

21

Jay Idzes

Defender

3

Josh Doig

Defender

6

Sebastian Walukiewicz

Defender

46

Simone Cinquegrano

Defender

42

Kristian Thorstvedt

Midfielder

69'

18

Nemanja Matic

Midfielder

46'

55

Ibrahim Sulemana

Midfielder

45

Armand Lauriente

Attacker

94

Sebastiano Esposito

Attacker

69'

70

Giorgio De Marzi

Goalkeeper

68

Antonio Arena

Attacker

77

Emanuele Lulli

Defender

12

Levente Kilvinger

Goalkeeper

64

Valerio Maccaroni

Midfielder

15

Marten de Roon

Midfielder

66'

61

Niccolò Pisilli

Midfielder

66'

3

Konstantinos Koulierakis

Defender

77'

9

Santiago Castro

Attacker

77'

87

Daniele Ghilardi

Defender

85'

12

Giacomo Satalino

Goalkeeper

15

Edoardo Pieragnolo

Defender

80

Stefano Turati

Goalkeeper

8

Andrea Ghion

Defender

77

Nicholas Pierini

Attacker

26

Cas Odenthal

Defender

25

Benja Domínguez

Attacker

19

Laurs Skjellerup

Attacker

50

Darryl Bakola

Midfielder

33

Rafa Obrador

Defender

20

Ignace Van Der Brempt

Defender

46'

9

Kieron Bowie

Attacker

46'

35

Luca Lipani

Midfielder

69'

17

Vasilije Adžić

Midfielder

69'

5

Fali Candé

Defender

90'