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Less is more for Spalletti's side

After years of extravagance, the Serie A club aim to keep expectations low-key and move past Manchester United in the Champions League

Perhaps no team embodies Serie A's new-found austerity as much as Roma. Six or seven years ago they thought nothing of blowing £60 million summer after summer. They thought big, felt big and spent big.