Wilfried Nancy will oversee his first Europa League assignment as Celtic manager with a home game against Roma on Thursday night.

The new Celtic boss got off to the worst possible start, watching his side slump to a 2-1 loss at home to Hearts on Saturday.

However, Nancy and his players cannot afford to feel sorry for themselves and must focus on trying to topple Italian heavyweights Roma.

The visitors will be targeting an Old Firm double on Thursday night after defeating Rangers 2-0 in Glasgow back on matchday four.

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📈 Celtic v Roma Form & Stats

Celtic gave their Europa League qualification hopes a major shot in the arm by claiming a well-deserved 3-1 win away at Feyenoord a fortnight ago. That triumph lifted Celtic into the all-important top 24 of the league-phase standings ahead of their final three assignments.

Celtic suffered just their second defeat since parting company with Brendan Rogers when falling to a 2-1 defeat at home to Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts last Sunday. The defeat leaves Celtic trailing the table-topping Jam Tarts by three points, though the Hoops do have a game in hand.

Celtic have failed to keep a clean sheet in this season’s Europa League, with four of their five fixtures seeing both teams get on the scoresheet.

Celtic have been strong corner performers when on continental duty this season, averaging 6.86 corners per game and winning the flag-kick count in each of their two home games to date.

After making a slow start to their Europa League campaign, Roma have got their act together by taking top honours from each of their last two assignments, one of which was a 2-0 win over Rangers at Ibrox. That pair of victories means that 15th-placed Roma now have nine points to their name.

Roma’s Serie A title hopes have suffered a big blow in recent weeks, with Gian Piero Gasperini’s side losing to both Napoli and Cagliari across the last two rounds of action in the Italian top-flight. Consequently, Roma have fallen to 4th position in the table, four points adrift of league leaders AC Milan.

Roma have won each of their two Europa League away games this season, scoring exactly two goals in each of those victories.

Only Lille (35) have earned more corners than Roma (33) across the first five matchdays of this season’s Europa League.

📔 Celtic v Roma Formation & Team News

Celtic have been well known for setting up in a 4-3-3 formation; however, new boss Nancy made an immediate switch to his preferred 3-4-1-2 system during his debut in the dugout on Sunday.

As was the case at the weekend, Nancy will again have to make do without injury victims Alistair Johnston, Callum Osmand, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Jota and Marcelo Saracchi. On a brighter note, Kelechi Iheanacho was back in the matchday squad last time out, albeit as an unused substitute.

Gian Piero Gasperini has made use of variations of a back three since taking the reins at Roma, something he also did to great effect during his time in charge of Atalanta.

The Roma boss has almost a full squad to choose from on Thursday night, with Artem Dovbyk and Wesley the only two players on the visitors' absentee list. Paulo Dybala could be drafted back into the starting XI after being named as a substitute in each of Roma’s last two Serie A matches.

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