But Roma has been finishing their seasons in Serie A quite same all those years. It was never enough to make it into the top four again, but they finished 6th or 7th for a while. Mourinho didn't really bring them to the next level, but he reached the Europa League final which I think makes his turn look better than it was. De Rossi does however have a real chance to lift Roma to the next level and build a great team for the future. But that's a lot of work as there is Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus Turin and then a lot of teams that will compete for that valuable 4th position.
Yeah AS Roma's game has been unstable lately but we don't know if this is part of De Rossi's efforts to secure his players in the upcoming Champions League match, we know AS Roma will play against Leverkusen as one of the strong candidates to win the trophy so here AS Roma needs complete preparation and also don't want to lose players due to injury. What is certain is that this season AS Roma will not get a place in the top 4 they were unable to compete with Bologna.
It depends how you compare Roma from today to Roma from 3 months ago. If you look at the overall trend that De Rossi was able to set for his team since he began coaching them, I think the trend is very positive. It was to be expected that they might end a game with a draw every now and then, but overall the team improved significantly. If they make the top 4 in the end, I am sure that is much more than anyone in the club was asking for when De Rossi got started.
AS Roma will find it easy to make it to the 4th in the table because they are just 4 points below Bologna, and we all knew that the coming of De Rossi to the team would already have a good impact on the team because no one expected them to make it so far in the season. but luckily enough, they are already doing well in performance, but based on the five remaining games, I can still say that AS Roma will not find it very hard to overcome points in order to gain the position of Bologna, so I still have more hope for AS Roma to go further in serie A and in the Europa League, but I will still see what will happen in the future.
But what I still see as a challenge to AS Roma is that the next game they have against Napoli will be complicated because it will either be a draw or AS Roma winning because, based on serie A, AS Roma are playing better than Napoli, so I don't think it will be a surprise if AS Roma win the game.