88 min: Correction: a replay shows that Belotti effort was actually saved brilliantly by Bono but Roma were denied a corner. We’ll allow them that grumble!

84 min: Roma go close with a well-worked free-kick for a Rakitic foul that should really have seen the Sevilla midfielder receive a second yellow card. The ball’s scooped over the top towards Belotti by Pellegrini but the sub can only volley into the side-netting.

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82 min: Yet another member of Roma’s coaching staff gets booked for dissent, as the Italian side appeal for a penalty for a totally unintentional hand-ball by Fernando, whose arm was by his side. Once again, the players of Roma surround Anthony Taylor in a bid to badger him.

79 min: I think Anthony Taylor bottled that decision in the face of protests from Roma’s players. There was definite contact between Ibanez and Ocampos, which does not in and of itself signify foul play. What’s important is that Taylor did not make a clear and obvious error in awarding the penalty (I think he was correct to give it originally) and therefore should not have changed his mind.

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Roger Ibanez is adjudged to have brought down Luis Ocampos in the Roma penalty area and after pointing to the spot, Anthony Taylor is immediately surrounded by Roma players protesting the decision. While Jose Mourinho goes berserk on the touchline, he consults his monitor and overturns the decision!!!

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74 min: Zeki Celik gets booked for a foul on Suso, becoming the seventh member of his team and their backroom team to have their names taken. Roma substitution: Andreas Belotti on for Tammy Abraham.

73 min: Roma substitution: Paulo Dybala made way for Gini Wijnaldum about four minutes ago.

71 min: Navas curls another excellent cross into the Roma penalty area but it somehow evades all three of the players in white shirts loitering with intent. Sevilla win themselves a corner and Suso’s inswinger is headed clear.

66 min: A free-kick is swung into the Sevilla penalty area, Bono saves a close range effort from Tammy Abraham and a goalmouth scramble ensues. Roger Ibanez eventually takes a wild swing at the ball from about 10 yardes out, miskicks and sends his effort well wide of the upright.

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64 min: Five Roma players surround the referee after Rakitic is penalised for a foul on one of their number. He gets booked for the foul and Bryan Cristante gets booked for dissent. Meanwhile on the touchline, a member of Roma’s coaching staff gets booked for harrassing Michael Oliver, the fourth official, who is being subjected to all manner of abuse by assorted members of the Italian side’s staff who are working on rotation.

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61 min: Pellegrini drives the free-kick straight into the defensive wall, Roma recycle the ball and send it into the Sevilla penalty area. Smalling mistimes his leap at the far post and can’t get any power behind his downward header. Bono gathers.

60 min: Roma win a free-kick about 30 yards from goal, Mancini going down under a challenge from Ocampos. The Italian side’s players immediately surround Anthony Taylor, imploring him to book the Sevilla No55. He’s having none of it.

57 min: It’s a goal the game desperately needed and Sevilla’s early pressure in the second half has paid off. It was a wonderful cross from Navas and, facing his own goal with Sevilla players either side of him, Mancini was pretty powerless to do anything much beyond send the ball past his own goalkeeper off his right knee or thigh.

Sevilla equalise! Gianluca Mancini knees a Jesus Navas cross from the right into his own net from six yards out under pressure from Luis Ocampos.

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52 min: Alex Telles sends a wild shot high and wide of the Roma goal-frame after running on to a pass into a pocket of space on the left side of the penalty area from Erik Lamela.

51 min: Sevilla midfielder Luis Ocampos doesn’t quite connect properly as he attempts to steer an overhead kick from the edge of the Roma penalty area goalwards. Wide.

50 min: Gianluca Mancini gets booked for a cynical foul on Lamela which brings an end to a Sevilla sortie into Roma territory.

47 min: There’s a break in play so referee Anthony Taylor can give several different players a good talking-to. He seems understandably infuriated with their constant arguing over every little decision he makes.

47 min: Jesus Navas sends Sevilla’s first cross of the second half into the Roma penalty area. Roger Ibanez deals with it comfortably.

46 min: Call me a cynic but eyes front for what could be the longest, most foul-strewn 45 minutes of all our lives. Sevilla have made two changes: Suso and Erik Lamela are on for Oliver Torres and Bryan Gil.

Peep! An increasingly bad-tempered, bitty and not particularly entertaining first half draws to a close with Roma edging the game courtesy of Paulo Dybala’s fine finish. Sevilla went close to an equaliser moments before the break courtesy of Rakitic’s rasper but have otherwise struggled to create anything in the way of opportunities.

45+6 min: Ivan Rakitic is teed up by Torres and unleashes a low left-footed drive from 25 yards. The ball thumps the foot of the upright and ricochets back into play.

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45+4 min: Alex Telles tries to drill a low cross into the Roma penalty area from the left but the ball’s blocked before it can reach the near post. Moments later, Youssef En-Nesyri climbs to reach an Oliver Torres cross towards the far post but the ball is intercepted.

45+2 min: We’re into seven minutes of added time. Sevilla sling another hopeful cross into the Roma box but there’s nobody on hand in a white shirt to get near it.

45 min: Dybala pulls the ball back to Pellegrini but he’s unable to get a shot away. Instead, he throwsd himself to the ground looking for a penalty and is shown a yellow card for simulation. Needless to say, that decision is also hotly contested even though his dive in the face of a non-challenge from Rakitic was blatant. Taylor needs to crack some skulls together here, show a few more yellow cards or even a red, otherwise this game is going to get away from him.

42 min: Alex Telles sends a cross from the left into the Roma penalty area but Luis Ocampus is beatn to the ball by Roger Ibanez. Cue: a massive crow betweeen several players and the referee over whether or not it should be a corner. Every decision being made by Anthony Taylor is being contested to within an inch of it's life and it’s getting very, very tedious.

39 min: Roma win a free-kick, wide on the right. Lorenzo Pellegrini sends the ball towardss the far post, where Roger Ibanez leaps to head it and misses. In the queue behind him, Chris Smalling was probably better placed to try his luck.

36 min: That’s a great finish from Dybala, who is back after a six-match absence with an ankle injury. In the immediate aftermath of the goal, referee Anthony Taylor went across to the sideline to book a Sevilla substitute and warn both benches about their poor behaviour. Fourth official Michael Oliver is being harrassed by the subs and backroom staff of both teams.

Roma lead! Latching on to a Gianluca Mancini ball from deep, Paulo Dybala sprints between defenders and slots the ball past Bono into the bottom right-hand corner.

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