Real Madrid are at home to AS Roma in the first leg of the Champions League in 2016, on Wednesday (17/02/2016) or Thursday (18/02/2016). Will Real Madrid will end their bad run? At Indonezia : Thursday, February 18 02:45 AS Roma vs. Real Madrid RCTI / Bein 1Rome at the start of the Serie A season this year has a terrible story with poor results under coach Rudi Garcia, who has been replaced by Luciano Spalletti. Spalletti, is the man who led Roma to win 'KO' over Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the 2007/08 competition season by winning both meetings with the score 2-1 respectively. Since then, Roma has not reached the quarter-finals.
Real Madrid have not won against the Italian team in eight of their knockout matches at a European Cup match.
The last time they got past the Serie A team in the 1997-1998 edition of the European Champions Cup, when they eliminated Napoli 3-1 (aggregate), after a draw in the second leg in Naples, 1-1. Zinedine Zidane made his Champions League debut as coach of Real Madrid and this time he is confident his team is fully prepared and ready to come out with a positive result on Wednesday night at Indonezia.Roma manager Luciano Spalletti is not planning to "cage" Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League last-16. Despite conceding 16 goals in the group stage, Spalletti will not sacrifice players to mark Ronaldo out of Wednesday's game. The Portuguese forward is the Champions League's all-time record scorer with 88 goals and has 11 already this season. Roma won just one match in the group stage and were beaten 6-1 by Barcelona. In contrast Real Madrid won five out of six games, scoring 19 goals in the process. But Spalletti believes his side can still cause an upset against the 10-time European champions.
