Roma coach Luciano Spalletti is happy to be facing Al Ahly later today.

Roma will face the Cairo team tomorrow evening at 19:00 GMT, and Spalletti joined Mohamed Salah for a Press conference ahead of the friendly.

“I'd like to thank the organisers for setting up this event," Spalletti told the Press. “It gives us the opportunity of learning from another type of football and finding out about [Coach] Martin Jol's tactics, as well as [Hossam] Ghali's quality as a player.

“We're certain that these confrontations will let us grow and learn new things. We're ready for the quality of Al Ahly.

“We're short of a few players as they left for the international games, but we have Salah, and he said he'd take care of it. He practically dragged us here for this friendly."