If look at the two, they do have almost the same equality in terms of strength performance, but each has advantages that cannot be differentiated.
Brighton is in the Premier League competition with 7th place in the standings and they are used to facing several big, quite strong team such as Manchester City, Arsenal and also Liverpool who are currently in very good condition.
In contrast to Roma, which in the Serie A competition occupies 6th position in the standings and perhaps only faces strong team such as Inter Milan and Juventus, this difference will create an advantage in terms of ease when the two teams compete.
In the first leg, Roma will have home game and this is clearly an opportunity for them to win and have an aggregate advantage, but I sure Brighton will not give up and let Roma win.
Brighton must at least be able to maintain draw and try to win the match in the second leg when the home game is theirs, but I will also have little difficulty in determining who will make it through to the next round.
They each have advantages and disadvantages, perhaps predictions can really be made with more certainty when the first leg match is finished.
In the European contests, there's been top contending teams from the start till the current stage of the contest. Even though days back, the playoffs stage was concluded and there we saw few teams earn advancement tickets. Well from the beginning of the tournament, we know that it'll only be the tough teams that'd survive. Also predicting the winner this season would be hard as there are a number of tough teams to pick from. The highest we can do is to just analyze these teams based on their overtime performances this season and bringing that in the picture. For Roma and Brighton, it'll be risky to say who'd be victorious in the coming European encounter.
But Between these two teams, Roma have been trying though, they're anticipating the a top spot in the Serie A league race, as well as they've been able to compete real well in their Copa Italia games too and then they're also top contenders for the European cup. Well, the Serie A games that's been played so far will put them in a high victory hungry spot, and when the next European game will be played the weight on them would be a bit lessened as before now, due to their past games where they've had to keep up proper performances, they had to keep resting players at some point and I believe it had an effect on some of their games. Good thing is, they've been able to build up their confidence rightly and they've got to strive to stay ahead in subsequent games.
So I believe that their game against Brighton won't be so tough for them as one would imagine it to be as they've tried in a very little way to be above their opponent in terms of performance. For Brighton, they've been impactful, currently striving to stay in shape in the Premier League too and so they've got same goal as Roma and therefore if in recent times they've remained at an average performance level, then I doubt that there'd be a negative difference now when the tournament and season is almost rounded up. For me, I'll really love to see the heated game between Roma and Brighton in the UEL soon though and I have a feeling that the game would practically end in a draw at the first leg but it's only best that one of the sides stands out more and secure the 3points ahead.