Kaiserslautern v AS Roma LIVE UPDATES as Evan Ferguson starts for Serie A side
German side Kaiserslautern will provide a much bigger challenge for Ferguson and his teammates, even if they are not the club they once were. They have been out of the Bundesliga for some time now, and last season they finished seventh in the 2. Bundesliga. Kaiserslautern even had a spell recently in the third tier.
It's a far cry from their glory days in the 1990s, when they won two Bundesliga titles and had stars such as Youri Djorkaeff in their side.
There is a tenuous League of Ireland link to this game today - as Kaiserslautern famously played Bohemians in the UEFA Cup in 2000, squeaking through on aggregate, but losing 1-0 at home to the Gypsies in the second leg. Ferguson, of course, made his senior football debut for Bohs.
He wasn't even born when Glen Crowe netted the winner for the Dublin side, but can he follow in his fellow former-Bohs striker's footsteps by scoring in Germany today?
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AS Roma's friendly against Kaiserslautern is live on Premier Sports 2, with a 5pm kick-off.
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... and Evan Ferguson is in the starting-11 for Roma. Here's their team for the friendly away to Kaiserslautern.
| Our Starting XI for Kaiserslautern v Roma #ASRoma pic.twitter.com/aoJWAbTxQq — AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) July 26, 2025
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