In the play-off round, it looks like AS Roma was a little unlucky. because the opponent they have to face is Porto, who is also quite famous for being strong in the Portuguese league. And Porto even plays in the UCL quite often, which means this team has quite a lot of experience in major European competitions. So AS Roma will definitely not be able to easily get through the play-off round. It's just that fortunately for Porto this season they are not as good as before. In the past, when there was Pepe at the Porto club, we all know that Porto's defense is one of the best. But after Pepe left this team had a fairly mediocre defense. From here we realize that there is no figure who can replace Pepe there. Pepe has now retired and I am a fan of this player. I like this player because he is always able to play well even though he is 40 years old. He is the same as Cr7 who always amazes us.
Now just few days and playoffs are going to be played between teams which are mostly have same level of quality and performance things could be tense while many will be having good entertainment because these games have enough quality and performance from these clubs.
Porto is currently on poor run due to poor performance they have no win in last 4 league games and their performance in Europa League is also not extraordinary but AS Roma done good job and now have good results which give them some advantage as well arrival of Ranieri bring good stability in Roma performance while their quality is increased which give them good advantage for having better chance in these playoffs but still it's going to be one of the toughest match in playoffs due to both teams experience and quality.