Roma are back in the Champions League against CSKA Moscow with Francesco Totti, Gervinho and Juan Iturbe.

It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT) at the Stadio Olimpico, while elsewhere in the group Manchester City visit Bayern Munich.

Roma are back in the Champions League against CSKA Moscow with Francesco Totti, Gervinho and Juan Iturbe.

It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT) at the Stadio Olimpico, while elsewhere in the group Manchester City visit Bayern Munich.

This is a big occasion for the Giallorossi, who were out of Europe altogether for two years and hadn’t played in the Champions League since reaching the Round of 16 in 2010-11.

Considering the other clubs in the ‘Group of Death,’ tonight’s game is on paper the easiest for Roma and the one they absolutely must win to have any hope of qualification.

Their Serie A season has begun with two wins out of two, but neither performance against Fiorentina” data-scaytid=”7″>Fiorentina or Empoli” data-scaytid=”8″>Empoli was convincing.

Daniele De Rossi is suspended, while Leandro Castan and Kevin Strootman are out injured, so Seydou Keita starts.

Vasilis Torosidis is preferred at left-back to Ashley Cole, meaning half the defence is made up of Greek internationals.

Totti, Iturbe and Gervinho all return to the starting XI after they were rested on Saturday in a 1-0 victory at Empoli.

CSKA Moscow lost all three of their away games in the Champions League group phase last season, scoring three goals and conceding 10.

However, they have a strong record on Italian soil and won their last two visits against Inter in 2011-12 and Palermo in 2010-11.

The Russian club has earned three victories, one draw and three defeats in the Peninsula.

They are forced to do without several players, as Alan Dzagoev and Pontus Wernbloom are suspended for all three group games, while Rasmus Elm and Vitinho are on the treatment table.

Georgi Schennikov is on the bench, though it’s not clear whether he’ll be fit to take part after suffering from an ankle problem this week.

Finnish international Roman Eremenko is one of their key midfielders and he is familiar to Serie A, having played for Udinese and Siena.

Bebars Natcho is also one to watch, as he has scored five goals in four games.

Roma: De Sanctis; Maicon, Manolas, Astori, Torosidis; Pjanic, Keita, Nainggolan; Iturbe, Totti, Gervinho

Roma bench: Skorupski, Yanga-Mbiwa, Cole, Florenzi, Paredes, Ljajic, Destro

CSKA Moscow: Akinfeev; Mario Fernandes, V Berezutski, Ignashevich, Nababkin; Z Tosic, Natcho, Eremenko, G Milanov; Doumbia, Musa

CSKA bench: Chepchugov, A Berezutski, Schennikov, Chernov, Efremov, Panchenko, Bazelyuk

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