ROMA starting XI (3-5-2): Svilar, Mancini (subbed for Baldanzi), Ndicka, Angelino, Celik, Koné (subbed for Pisilli), Cristante, Pellegrini (subbed for Paredes), El Shaarawy,
Soulé (subbed for Hermoso), Dovbyk

Bench: Marin, Ryan, Abdulhamid, Shomurodov, Hummels, Dybala, Dahl, Sangaré

Goals: Cristante 74’, Pisilli 83’

VENEZIA starting XI (3-5-2): Joronen, Candela (subbed for Gytkjaer), Svoboda, Idzes, Zampano, Ellertsson (subbed for Doumbia), Nicolussi Caviglia (subbed for Andersen), Busio, Haps, Oristanio (subbed for Crnigoj), Pohjanpalo (subbed for Raimondo)

Bench: Oliveira, Grandi, Stankovic, Sagrado, Schingtienne, Sverko, Carboni, El Haddad

Goals: Pohjanpalo 44’

Homegrown midfielder Niccolò Pisilli - who came up through the youth team - netted his first Serie A goal to help Roma fight back to snatch a win over promoted Venezia 2-1 at Stadio Olimpico on Sunday.

“It’s a dream come true. To score in this stadium with this shirt is everything a Roman and a Romanista dreams of since a child. I’m delighted,” Pisilli said.

Venezia had been leading at halftime, prompting huge jeers from Roma fans.

Roma moved up to ninth, four points behind new leaders Napoli, who went top of Serie A with a comfortable 2-0 win over Monza.

Roma had finally got their first win of the season last Sunday, just days after Jurić replaced the fired Daniele De Rossi. There were protests by the fans during that match against Udinese and enthusiasm was further dampened by a 1-1 draw against Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League midweek.

Venezia took the lead in Rome on the stroke of halftime. Gianluca Busio curled an effort off the far-right post, but Joel Pohjanpalo reacted to fire into the bottom left corner.

Ridgeciano Haps had a goal ruled out for Venezia early in the second half, for offside in the buildup, before Roma levelled in somewhat fortunate circumstances in the 75th minute.

Bryan Cristante’s powerful shot took a massive deflection off Busio to loop up and drop between Venezia goalkeeper Jesse Joronen and the crossbar.

And Roma turned the match around completely eight minutes later when Pisilli, who turned 20 last Monday, headed in a corner at the near post.

“I gave myself a nice birthday present a week later,” Pisilli said.

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