Roma vs. Vitesse Arnhem Predictions: Red card on the menu in Italy

Thursday sees the last-16 second leg ties in this year's Europa Conference League take place. In one of the more understated fares last week, Roma narrowly edged out Vitesse 1-0 in the Netherlands.

Despite having their goalscorer Sergio Oliviera sent off in the 78th minute and the stats favouring the hosts, Roma have managed to take an all-important advantage back to Italy.

Jose Mourinho's side are languishing 7th in Serie A and so a continued European campaign remains their best chance of upgrading to Europa League football next term.

First up we're backing Tammy Abraham to find himself as the first name on the scoresheet. No matter how Roma approach this one - which may well be cautiously given their one goal lead and home advantage - this man will get an opportunity to score. If it's a tight game which it could well be based on the first leg, a late Tammy Abraham goal might be on the cards.

For some context of just how well Tammy Abraham has settled in at Roma, he boasts 13 goals in 28 Serie A appearances. That's in addition to the six goals in seven matches he's netted in the Europa Conference League, too.

He is as short as 4/5 to score anytime so we'll go with him to score first at 3/1 with Bet365 instead.

This is backing both a repeat from the first leg and predicting what the stakes involved with this second leg clash could produce. As mentioned previously, Sergio Oliveira was sent off when these two met last week.

But more notably, there have been 16 reds brandished across all of Roma's matches this season. Better yet, eight of those have come in their last 10 matches, with Vitesse seeing four in their most recent 10 across all comps.

As we already know, Jose Mourinho's teams are feisty and with them holding a lead going into this one, the dark arts will be in full effect to ensure safe passage through to the next round.