During the 2007–08 season Associazione Sportiva Roma played the 75th Serie A season in its history. As in the previous season, Roma finished in second place in Serie A behind

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, but had the chance to win the Championship until the last match. Further, because ''giallorossi'' won the

2006–07 Coppa Italia The 2006–07 Coppa Italia was the 60th edition of the national domestic tournament. The final was played, like the two previous editions, between Internazionale and Roma. The first match was played in Rome on 9 May 2007, and the second leg in Mi ...

, they played the

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for the second consecutive time against Inter, and won the trophy thanks to a 1–0 victory in the first match of the season in

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. In the European competitions, Roma played

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and, starting from the group stage, beat

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in the Round of 16, but lost to the eventual champions

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in the quarter-finals. The last match of the season was the

2007–08 Coppa Italia The 2007–08 Coppa Italia was the 61st edition of the national domestic tournament. Fixtures were announced at 16:00 CET, July 25, 2007. The tournament began on August 14, 2007, and ended on May 24, 2008, with a single-match final played at the S ...

final against

, the fourth consecutive final between the two teams. The ''giallorossi'' won 2–1, their ninth Coppa Italia triumph.

Season review

Pre-season & transfers

Early pre-season was dominated by the protracted talks involving the renewal of

Cristian Chivu Cristian Eugen Chivu (; born 26 October 1980) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player who is the current head coach of Serie A club Inter Milan. A defender, he began his career with hometown club CSM Reșița before moving ...

's contract and the many rumours that linked him to many other teams. In fact, the Romanian defender refused a new contract because he already knew he had an offer of about €4M from

. For this reason in early June Roma extended

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' contract until 2011 and signed Brazilian

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winning defender

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from

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. The speculation involving Chivu lasted almost two months, and after that he refused to extend his contract with Roma. The player also turned down offers from

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and

, stating that if he was not transferred to Inter he would keep playing for Roma until his contract ran out the summer of 2008. For this reason Roma's supporters saw him as a "traitor" and whistled him during a training session in

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; even Roma's director of football Daniele Pradé stated that the Romanian defender made "''incalculable damage''" to the club because Real Madrid's offer was higher than the others. Eventually, on 27 July, when it seemed that Chivu would have been a ''giallorosso'' until the end of his contract period, Inter made a final offer of 14M€ plus the co-ownership of Marco Andreolli. Roma also signed

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, Mauro Esposito and, at the end of August,

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. The loans of Christian Wilhelmsson and Francesco Tavano were not renewed, while

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was loaned to

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as he wanted more first-team football. However, Roma bought full ownership of

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and

Marco Cassetti Marco Cassetti (; born 29 May 1977) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. Born in Brescia, he has previously played in Serie A for Verona, Lecce and Roma and in England with Watford. Cassetti won five caps for Italy at ful ...

. The signings of

Matteo Brighi Matteo Brighi (; born 14 February 1981) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. Regarded as one of Italy's most talented prospects in his early career, Brighi was named Serie A Young Footballer of the Ye ...

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, and Vitorino Antunes further enlarged the squad, while young players such as

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, Valerio Virga,

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, Andrea Giacomini and Daniele Galloppa were loaned to lower league clubs to gain experience.

First part of the season

Roma began the 2007–08 season on 19 August 2007 with the

against

. In the previous season, Roma had lost the Supercoppa 4–3, but on this occasion succeeded in winning (by 1–0) the second Supercoppa in its history, thanks to a penalty by

Daniele De Rossi Daniele De Rossi (; born 24 July 1983) is an Italian football manager and former professional player. As a football player, he is known for his long career with hometown club Roma, as well as winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Italy. De Ros ...

after a foul by Nicolás Burdisso on

Francesco Totti Francesco Totti (; born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who played solely for AS Roma, Roma and the Italy national football team, Italy national team. He was a technically gifted and creati ...

. The

2007–08 Serie A The 2007–08 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th season of top-tier Italian football, the 76th in a round-robin tournament. It started on 25 August 2007 and ended on 18 May 2008. Internazionale Milano succe ...

began with Roma as one of the favourites, after Internazionale,

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and together with

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. The first matches confirmed pre-season expectations of a successful campaign, as Roma started well with a 2–0 win against

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with goals from

and

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, who also scored in the second match against

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. Roma qualified for the

after finishing second in the 2006–07 season, qualifying directly to the group stage, where they were drawn from the second pot into

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, together with

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

and

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

. After the pause for

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's Euro 2008 qualifying matches against

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and

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, in which Daniele De Rossi,

Simone Perrotta Simone Perrotta (; born 17 September 1977) is an Italian-British former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Throughout his career, he stood out for his work-rate, energy, and box-to-box play as a ball-winner in the midfield area ...

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and

played, Roma entered a difficult period of fixtures over a short span of time: from 16 September until 3 October, the ''giallorossi'' played against Reggina (winning 2–0), Dynamo Kyiv (winning 2–0), Juventus (drawing 2–2),

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(drawing 2–2), Internazionale (losing 4–1) and Manchester United (losing 1–0). Roma won 2–0 in the first match against the '' Calabrese'' team thanks to

's first goal, a volley with his heel, and the second goal by Francesco Totti, who also scored in the 2–0 victory against Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kyiv. In the following two games against Juventus and Fiorentina, Roma led 2–1 but failed to hold on for the win, conceding the equalizer in the last minutes of both games. After having played Juventus on Sunday and Fiorentina on Wednesday, Roma faced champions Inter on Saturday, 29 September. The ''giallorossi'' lost 4–1, but the defeat was abetted by a handball in the

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from

who was sent off and cost Roma a penalty, after which the numerical inferiority and the disadvantage opened the ''nerazzurris overwhelming victory. - After losing their position as Serie A league leaders, Roma had to face Manchester United for the first time since their ''débâcle'' the previous season at the hands of the English champions in the quarter-finals where they had lost 7–1 . Roma lost this time too, but missed many chances, and even the scorer game's only goal,

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, stated that "Roma deserved more". In addition to ending the first match of the season without scoring a goal, the ''giallorossi'' lost

to a groin injury that would keep him out of play for more than a month, preventing him from playing the

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. Roma won their next match 3–0 against

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, thanks to two goals by Francesco Totti and one by

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, thus leaving behind a poor run of two draws and two defeats before the break for the Euro 2008 qualifying matches. After the international break Roma played out a thrilling 4–4 draw against

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. In the third Champions League group stage match, Roma had to face Sporting CP and, though Totti was injured, the team won thanks to goals by

and

, who dribbled two Portuguese defenders before scoring and assuring Roma second place in Group F, after three matches. The Montenegrin captain was also the protagonist of the second consecutive victory in

against

, scoring the only goal of the game. On 31 October 2007 the ''giallorossi'' played the

Derby della Capitale The Derby della Capitale (), also known as Derby Capitolino and Derby del Cupolone, as well as The Rome Derby in English and Derby di Roma in Italian, is the Association football, football local derby in Rome, Italy, between SS Lazio, Lazio and ...

against

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without three important first team players (Totti,

and Rodrigo Taddei), all out with injury. Despite this, Roma won 3–2 thanks to the third goal in three matches from

(evening the score after a goal from Lazio's

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), the second goal of the league campaign for Mancini and the winning goal by Simone Perrotta.La Roma si riprende il derby
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Players

Squad information

:''Last updated on 18 May 2008'' :''Appearances include league matches only''

Transfers

In

Out

Competitions

Overall

Last updated: 24 May 2008

Supercoppa Italiana

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coppa Italia

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Knockout phase

=Round of 16

=Quarter-finals

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goalscorers

Last updated: 24 May 2008

Clean sheets

Last updated: 24 May 2008

Disciplinary record

Last updated:

References

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