I am one of those who doubted De Rossi when he was given the Roma job, but I love how he has been able to turn things around for them. Managing Roma is no easy task. This is a team with a lot of history so there's pressure on the manager but De Rossi has handled it just fine.
Speaking on the defense, I believe they'll get better. The coach first of all identified the bigger problem of Roma and dealt with it. To me, the bigger problem was creating chances. Roma didn't create too many chances earlier on in the season. They preferred to sit back and patiently wait for an opportunity, but now they create those opportunities.
Now that they create more chances, the next step would be to press well. When they press better as a team, it will help the defense because this way defending starts from the attack and not the defense.
Winning the Europa league will be very difficult for Roma, I don't think they can, but I believe they'll do all they can in the competition. What they should focus on also is making it to the top 4 so they can play champions league football. With champions league football they'll be able to attract better players that can make them a better team. Making the top 4 is also going to be a very difficult task because the teams above them are not relaxing at all.
Not only you, there are many people who doubted De Rossi when he first arrived, because it is not an easy job to improve the performance of a team that is currently in decline and De Rossi is not a coach who has experience or a brilliant coaching record.
But De Rossi has ow proven it to everyone, which is quite impressive in my opinion for what De Rossi is doing at the moment.
I must admit it, rossi performed so well but it's too early to generalize he did everything perfectly. The hard fixtures are just coming soon. Rossi needs to make proper plan to face some hard games. I think that lukaku and dybala's contribution totally needs for the upcoming games.
Im not doubting the performance from dybala but the only thing that's saddened me if he was injury prone. Rossi needs to carefully playing him as a striker for now. Back in 2017 dybala has become one of famous player, he was not injury prone at that time.
Despite the good performance from roma in the match against torino and i give credit to the bellanova which was carrying torino to score two goals against roma.
There are certainly still shortcomings, but if you look at what has happened, I am quite optimistic that De Rossi will fulfill management's target of being able to bring this team to finish in the top 4 of the final Serie A standings, that is very possible.
It's very possible as long as rossi can keep the momentum. Roma is doing snowball and this can fuckin continue till the end of season. As long as dybale and lukaku will not injuriesand eveyrhing will be fine for rossi.
Some teams above roma are still weakened. The momentum will come for roma to qualify for UCL after this club played in UCL lastly 2018/19 season