England worldwide Abraham positioned Roma beforehand in the 54th minute with a smart turn and occasional force which calmed nerves most of the smattering of home fans on the Stadio Olimpico, who had already suffered some humbling defeats this season.
They had watched their team move in the back of to Lecce inside the 14th minute way to a bullet header from Arturo Calabresi, who came via Roma's adolescents academy and is the son of actor Paolo Calabresi, a famous television character in Italy and additionally a Roma fan. Apart from his numerous performing and supplying roles, Calabresi senior is well-known for getting into the Santiago Bernabeu to look at Roma beat Real Madrid 2-1 in 2008 through pretending to be American actor Nicolas Cage.
With the group beginning to turn on their crew, Abraham rose maximum to meet Sergio Oliveira's nook with 5 mins earlier than the break, flicking the ball into the course of Marash Kumbulla who headed home the leveller.
The hosts began the second half in extra confident temper and nearly went beforehand directly after the restart while Nicolo Zaniolo smashed an extended range effort off the inner of the submit. And the healthy turned into as desirable as over while, eight minutes after Abraham fired home Roma's 2nd, Mario Gargiulo changed into despatched off for selecting up two yellow playing cards in quick succession.
Eldor Shomurodov made sure of Roma's passage into the next round when after being set on his manner by means of Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the Uzbek worldwide dribbled past Valentin Gendrey and slotted in a low finish.
The area-final ties are scheduled to be performed on February 9.
