MILAN (AP) — Artem Dovbyk scored his first goal of the season on his first start for Roma as he set the Giallorossi on the way to a 2-0 win over Hellas Verona, which was left to rue one of the misses of the season.

Gian Piero Gasperini continued his almost perfect start to life in the Italian capital — after nine years in charge of Atalanta — by winning all but one of his six matches in charge of Roma.

Roma moved second, level on points with Serie A leader Napoli ahead of the defending champion’s match at AC Milan later Sunday.

Roma was full of confidence heading into the match following last weekend’s derby win against Lazio and the midweek victory over Nice in the Europa League.

And it got off to the perfect start when Dovbyk headed Zeki Celik’s cross into the bottom right corner

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