Quote from: bering on Today at 02:01:12 PM

Quote from: Gencecikmen on Today at 01:13:57 PM

Rome beat Leverkusen UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg at their home. Bove scored the only goal of the game in the 63rd minute, Roma to take a slender lead into next week's second leg in Germany. The win gives Mourinho the chance to reach his second European title after winning the Europa Conference League last season. However the game in Leverkusen will be difficult for Roma. After Leverkusen signed with Xabi Alonso, they became a very good team. In my opinion, Leverkusen may win the match in Leg 2.

This result is very important for Roma because at least they can able to win the match although with slim score and i don't know why Mourinho put Dybala and Wijnaldum into the bench because in my opinion probably if these players were playing since the beginning of match i think Roma will be able to scored more than 1 goal and for second leg i haven't checked the odds yet but i assume Leverkusen will be the favourite and for Roma this is big challenge for Mourinho to playing away because in this competition Roma has poor results while playing away that in the last 3 matches Roma were unable to win so if we see from these records i think i have to agree with you that Leverkusen will be able to beat Roma in the second leg

With the victory that AS Roma has in the first leg, AS Roma does not have to win in the second leg later. Because just a draw was enough for AS Roma to qualify for the final, I personally at this moment have no doubts about Mourinho's ability to form a solid defense for the second leg later.

So yes, even though AS Roma's victory surprised me a little because I didn't think AS Roma was capable of doing it, but this result also made me trust Mourinho's quality again to lead AS Roma to qualify for the Europa League final this season.