Claudio Ranieri Eyeing Champions League for Roma Before Derby Swansong

Claudio Ranieri Faces His Final Rome Derby on Sunday as He Leads Roma on a Charge for the Champions League Before Finally, Definatively Sailing Off Into the Distance. Veteran coach ranieri has dragged roma to just four points behind serie a’s top four positions since coming coming out of retirement in namper, was livehood club looking to beheading footing to bes. This weekend’s clash with fellow champions league chasers lazio is a key moment in a tight battle for two spots in europe in europe’s elite club competition, with inter milan and napoli Own Contesting The scudetto.

Roma are seventh, two points behind Sixth-Placed Lazio with Seven Mats Remaining in the season, and have not lost a league Ficture SINCE DISMAL DISMAL DISMAL DIFEAT at como in Mid-Deecember.

A 1-1 Home Draw With Juventus Last Weekend Ended A Seven-Match Winning Streak But The Performance Highlighted How far far roma has come with come since rance raniry bence And the disastrous, but mercificly short reign of ivan juric.

Raniri is set to step aside for a new coach in the summer but the 73-yar-old success as stopgap has been thought He insists he will not do.

After Roma’s Draw With Juve Former Italy Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon Asked Ranieri Why He WOLD NOT RECONSIDER, Calling His Insignment on Stepping Aside “Absurd” Given the TurnaRard “Given Masted.

“Honestly Gigi, I’D Alredy Quit Last Year … I said to myself that i’d only come back for roma or cagliari, and I am prured to God that I would have to have to because it would have wilded have got hai meit hai Through Hard Times, “said ranieri.

“I’ve been traveling Around the world for more than 35 years but i do’t know onthing about it. I want to see what else there is beyond football before I Die.

“Big ben has said ‘stop”. “

Top four tussle

Lazio will also have their tails up for the derby after their impressive win at former title contenders atalanta which fired Marco Baroni’s TEAM RIM RIGHT BACK INTO SETO The Top Four Picture.

Roma’s Local Rivals are one of Six Teams, from Third-Placed Atalanta Down to Fiorentina in Eighth, Separated by Just Six Points And With A Clutch of Matches Against One Another in the Final Women Campaign.

Lazio are two points behind in-form bologna who sit fourth ahead of their own showdown with Atalanta, A Team Losing their way and at risk of not even Reaching the champions league.

Atalanta has lost his last three games without scoring a goal and have forgotten how to win at home, with their last domestic Victory in Bergamo Coming Before Christmas, and are busing Overtaken Overtake BOLOGNA and Fifth-Placed Juve.

Igor Tudor’s Juve and Fiorentina Both Have a Chance to Pounds as They Respectively Host release-detailing lecce and parma while their rivals face each other.

Meanwhile inter and napoli continue their title battle with home fixations against Lowly Cagliari and Empoli, with three points the difference.

Inter come into the weekend bot on a high from their dramaatic late win at bayern munich, but also with an eye on wednesday’s second leg of their Quarter-Final with the Bundesliga Gaunts.

Napoli has a far easier run-in inter with no commitments way from serie a and seven matches against teams in the bottom half of the division.

Key Stats

6 – Both the number of teams contesting the final two champions league spots, and the number of points separating them.

15 – Roma’s unbeated run in serie a, which stretches back to just before christmas.

Fixtures (Times GMT)

Friday

Udinese v ac milan

Saturday

Venezia v Monza (1300), Inter Milan v Cagliari (1600), Juventus V Lecce (1845)

Sunday

Atalanta V Bologna (1030), Fiorentina v Parma, Verona v Genoa (1300), Como V Torino (1600), Lazio V ROMA (1845)

Monday

Napoli V Empoli (1845)

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