Roma have the advantage with this aggregate 1 score, even so, Leverkusen in the second leg may will be more serious to winning and reaching the final, so Roma still have to be wary of with Leverkusen movements in the second leg. Yes Sir similar to the Champions League, the Italian team this season is very good but it will be very interesting indeed, if Juventus and Roma can be in the final. It will lift the spirits of other Italian teams in Serie A, to be more consistent next season.
Winning 1-0 against leverkusen at home still means nothing for me. Roma shall always be careful with leverkusen when it will be playing away. Leverkusen has very good statistic when it was playing at home since xabi was taking the job as a new manager for leverkusen.
Mourinho was able predicting the strategy that used by leverkusen in the first leg. I think that if xabi will be more careful with as roma after its club was losing against as roma. It seems like that roma has equal performance compared with leverkusen.
Leverkusen may need to win with two goals or more at home. It will be a hard job for xabi to win against its teacher in the past. The battle between student vs teacher is always very interesting match to be watched.
As roma must be fully defensive when it will be playing away for the second leg. Mourinho must think about counter attack strategy to beat leverkusen away.
Roma was able winning the first leg even though it was not playing with the best squad.
I think both teams had good performances and they were close, Leverkusen had some goal opportunities and Roma had some other goals opportunities, especially in the second half when Leverkusen had an even better performance than Roma but Leverkusen couldn't use the chances they got that's why Roma won the game.