The Polish goalkeeper, then 23, played a negative role in the team's elimination from the tournament in the 2014/15 season. The week of European cup action continues today with Europa League and Conference League matches. The game to focus on is the Italian derby between Bologna and Roma: the first leg of the round of 16 is scheduled for today, Thursday 12 March, at 6.45 p.m., with the return leg at the Olimpico next week on Thursday 19. It is a challenge within a challenge for Lukasz Skorupski, the 31-year-old goalkeeper who now defends the Rossoblù's goal but was Roma's second-choice keeper between 2013 and 2015 and in the 2017-18 season. Clearly, this is not the first time the Polish player has faced the Giallorossi as a former player, but he has never faced them in the Europa League before. One of the Polish goalkeeper's last appearances for Roma was in this very competition. In the 2014/15 season, Skorupski was Rudi Garcia's first-choice keeper in the Europa League, where Roma had slipped after finishing third in their Champions League group alongside Bayern Munich, Manchester City and CSKA Moscow (the old rules meant that the third-placed team in the Champions League group went into the Europa League). That season, Skorupski had already played against Cesena and Juventus in the league and against City and Bayern in Europe due to the unavailability of the first-choice keeper. The decision to start him in the Europa League against Feyenoord and Fiorentina, on the other hand, was a technical choice by the coach to give playing time to a player who was young at the time (23 years old) and was seen as a possible first-choice keeper for the future. However, things did not go as planned. Skorupski played three good matches in the round of 32 against Feyenoord and the first leg of the round of 16 against Fiorentina (another Italian derby); the setback came in the return leg against the Viola. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Skorupski made a mistake in the 18th minute of the second leg, with the score at 0-1: trying to avoid giving away a corner to the opponents, the Polish keeper inadvertently passed the ball to Marcos Alonso, who tapped it into the empty net to double the lead and effectively seal the match. The match ended 3-0 to Fiorentina, spelling the end of Roma's European campaign. The Giallorossi goalkeeper was criticised for his mistake, and Garcia was criticised for playing him. Today, Skorupski faces Roma again in Europe, this time as an opponent. At 34, he is more mature and more experienced. Who knows if he will try to avoid conceding a corner to the opposition again by clearing the ball off the line. Add GOAL.com as a preferred source on Google to see more of our reporting