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It is impossible as you said but luck does happen sometimes in football just as we have seen how the highly rated PSG got eliminated yesterday in the UEFA Champions League by an underrated semifinalist Dortmund. Although Roma’s case is different since Leverkusen has already won the first leg match away from home, and winning Roma at home will be an easy task for them.
De Rossi is trying as Roma’s head coach, I think if he is given more time, he can do better because he have good tactics that can lead Roma to the limelight. I think the team need to be patient and played but in another Europa League next season since getting to the fourth position will be difficult for them.
I know that the two teams has a good performance to reach this stage to face each other to know the strongest team in this season, which the sign has shown in the face of Bayer Leverkusen, because they used their opportunity well in the first leg to achieved victory. Roma will going to Improve their performance in this match to use their home advantage to challenge their opponent not to score more than one goal from the match, which they are capable to make it happen to Bayer Leverkusen. Based on what people have experienced from the Roma manager in this season, show that he will perform more than this season next season if their president can give him the second chance next season to help the team to achieve Europa league title next season.
Situation is very interesting as things are heading for the end of this season we are having drastically changes in performance of few teams with Atlanta is doing good job, and they are having good wins from their last few games which bring them in limelight for the automatic qualification for the Champions League and AS Roma is having decline in performance with now their game against Atlanta is going to be important for their stay into top five.

De Rossi doing good job and deserve another chance at this level with their qualification for the Champions League can give boost to his chances for staying as coach here for one more season Atlanta is also doing good job and having good chance of going into final of the Europa League, and they are already in Copa Italia final which is going to play against Juventus, but their game against Roma is having good limelight as both needs to win and stay at the fifth spot.
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The fun fact about Jose Mourinho is we know he got the knowledge and he could make a change in Roma, he was maybe the best coach in the world after the performance we saw from him when he was working at Inter Milan or Porto. But we should accept that Mourinho didn't have a good performance in Roma even after the chance they gave him. While the young coach of Roma, De Rossi, who has not experienced enough and is not a famous coach like Mourinho had a perfect performance so far and he is about to make Roma get the Champions League ticket.
Conclusion of this talk is every player and coach have good and bad day José Mourinho was one of the best coach while he was winning trophies and giving his best but currently his strategy is not working which is not allowing him for having big wins like we have with many other coaches in different leagues things are never stay at the same level his performance was not good at Roma which is having no doubt and De Rossi done good job with now two important games are going to give all about can they go for the Champions League, or we are having them again into Europa League which is also not bad but for the better results and having good end of the season they need few quality players which give them good performance and better results which are more important for them and their good future.

I think they were more worried about him being in the third season of his coaching and the track record of him coaching a team in the third season has not been good. Yes of course the results were also not looking very good. So it did make sense that they decided to get a new coach.

But I was very vocal about getting the coach that they have right now. I never thought he was going to be a big improvement. And that’s what I think we can see now. After a coach comes to a club, initially he is able to find good results. Because there is a different level of motivation in the players. But after that "honeymoon phase" is over, it is hard to keep the players as motivated as they were. And that is exactly what is happening in my opinion. But everyone keeps saying that if a coach is given enough time, he is almost always going to bring in better results. Let’s see if that is true or not.
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I know that the two teams has a good performance to reach this stage to face each other to know the strongest team in this season, which the sign has shown in the face of Bayer Leverkusen, because they used their opportunity well in the first leg to achieved victory. Roma will going to Improve their performance in this match to use their home advantage to challenge their opponent not to score more than one goal from the match, which they are capable to make it happen to Bayer Leverkusen. Based on what people have experienced from the Roma manager in this season, show that he will perform more than this season next season if their president can give him the second chance next season to help the team to achieve Europa league title next season.
The ability of Roma stopping Leverkusen from scoring more goals actually isn't much of a problem but I think the main issues lay in their ability to be able to make it to the finals by possibly knocking Leverkusen out which by every analysis possible it's not looking like something that could be achieved except if there be some unforseen circumstances of which even in the midst of that Leverkusen still have a mechanism to staying afloat.

Leverkusen is in such a solid form with goal advantages ahead of Roma such that they may actually not even get to really struggle to qualify for the finals even if they get to loose like probably in the fact thst Roma utilizes their home advantage, if we even look at Roma's home performance this season both in their domestic league and the Europa, they haven't been really brilliant but then they have been able to maintain some relative balance in that their losses at home isn't above their home victory and draw but then such inconsistency at home isn't assuring enough to get Leverkusen to halt their journey to the finals of the Europa.

Roma's home advantage will just be to helping them concede lesser goals meanwhile they may be lucky to get a goal aswell but then Leverkusen has got a whole lot to protect to allowing the second leg be a mess so I'm still believing strongly Leverkusen has got a better chance than Roma does even with the fact that Roma will definitely try their best but it wouldn't be enough to stopping Leverkusen or even causing them their records so far.
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Roma won't be able to hire a better coach, extending contract for De Rossi should be an easy decision. Any coach will be a gamble for Roma, they should just stick on De Rossi who have shown his capability to improve their performances with the available squad. The board just needs to back up De Rossi with required signings for next season.
Signing a contract with a player or a coach, it is a gamble, only smaller or bigger in risk. Every player and coach can succeed in one club but can fail in another club, no guarantee for success.

De Rossi is a best coach for Roma in near future because he loves the club and he shown it through his player career. This means De Rossi will not ask too much from Roma like salary for him, put pressure on the club finance just to satisfy his ambitious players for transfers. With De Rossi, Roma will have more comfortable coach and relationship to work with each other for a long time.

A biggest challenge to end their work relationship is if Roma have very bad performances that exceed acceptable threshold of Roma board members.
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Roma and the fans really understand that De Rossi will fail this season, however, De Rossi can be said to be successful even though he will only end up failing in the European league and failing to get a ticket to the next European music league.
De Rossi joined Roma at the wrong time and on the one hand he managed the existing players without making any changes and this was a very good result or a sign that De Rossi really deserved to be Roma coach.
but it all depends on how the Roma owner will give permission to De Rossi to make a transfer to get new players and if you remember how Roma finances are currently really limited, the Roma owner must provide the right policy and if you dare to take the risk of bringing in new players, give them freedom to De Rossi, I think there will be quite a good improvement in the next season.

btw there is still hope for Roma to try to get a top 5 position if after the European league matches are finished and Atalanta manages to qualify for the final, Roma will definitely have the opportunity to take advantage of this situation because Atalanta will definitely try to aim for the European league title.
Still has second leg match for Europe League semifinal face Leverkusen and still not fail yet behind potential for Roma make comeback and win over three goals, but I disagree with Roma have failure in this season behind first time arriving Daniele De Rossi get team outside from top six standings position and currently near future reach champion league spot behind four points left from Bologna.
Become AS Roma manager and limitation with financial condition I don't think failed with Daniele De Rossi and has chance make Roma qualify to final of Europe League and finish as Champion League spot place in this season.

Roma have to beat Atalanta next match because both team get the same points currently and fight for champion league spot place, I think Roma indeed must winning on three matches left should waiting bad result from Bologna to reach one ticket for participating in champion league next season.
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The fun fact about Jose Mourinho is we know he got the knowledge and he could make a change in Roma, he was maybe the best coach in the world after the performance we saw from him when he was working at Inter Milan or Porto. But we should accept that Mourinho didn't have a good performance in Roma even after the chance they gave him. While the young coach of Roma, De Rossi, who has not experienced enough and is not a famous coach like Mourinho had a perfect performance so far and he is about to make Roma get the Champions League ticket.
Conclusion of this talk is every player and coach have good and bad day José Mourinho was one of the best coach while he was winning trophies and giving his best but currently his strategy is not working which is not allowing him for having big wins like we have with many other coaches in different leagues things are never stay at the same level his performance was not good at Roma which is having no doubt and De Rossi done good job with now two important games are going to give all about can they go for the Champions League, or we are having them again into Europa League which is also not bad but for the better results and having good end of the season they need few quality players which give them good performance and better results which are more important for them and their good future.
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I think with the last two draws they have wasted the chance to qualify for the Champons League. Their last chance is definitely to win 3/3 remaining games, but look at Atalanta and how they have a game in hand. It is a very complicated situation for them. It probably comes down to the game against Atalanta and I doubt that Atalanta will give that one away.

Who knows how it will be looking two weeks from now, but the craziest scenario would be that Juventus loses games and then Bologna plays against them on May 19th. That would be a tough end of the season for all the teams fighting for something.
Roma which was doing good job in last few weeks suddenly having decline in performance with their two draws are surely going to hurt their cause for the qualification of the Champions League which could be big setback for them because we have good improvement in Atlanta performance even they are involved in three competitions but still things are going favourable for them which is going to have big impact on their end of this season.

We have few interesting matches and things which can happen in league table at the end even most chances we will stay with these teams for the top spots with just Roma and Atlanta are having fight for the top fifth spot with most chances Atlanta going to have better chance but still we can expect good, interesting matches which will bring good changes in league table.
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The truth should be told. De Rossi has had a wonderful impact on AS Roma so far, and everyone can attest to that because it has been seen, and if they will be patient, they will definitely go a long way next season because even this season, if they are not strong early, they will have more than this, but De Rossi came almost at the last minute of the season, which I think is supposed to give them a chance to start a new season and see how it will end.
 
But one fact that needs to be believed is that no matter what, it will still be hard for AS Roma to be the champions of this season's Europa League because, to me, they can't make it  any more because even on aggregate, they are losing 2 goals, so what are you thinking? All I expect from them now is to go and get more ready for the next season. That is just the fact.
It is hard to tell how they will be doing next season. No doubt that De Rossi has delivered as a coach, but at the end of the day the player material is the limiting factor. Let's see if they can get a good job done in the transfer period, but if they want to compete with teams like AC Milan and Inter Milan, I think they will need more players of higher quality. The team is ok at the moment, but it's not the best team in Serie A and you can see how Leverkusen outplayed them.
We have good performance from the Roma with their limited sources are preventing them from having good wins which is surely problem which needs to be fixed in coming season if they want to have better results most chances they will be stayed into top six spots with Champions League chances are looking not good but still things can take good change but if they want to have improvement into their spot they need to bring few quality players which allow them to have things well under control.

Now they are going to play few important games which will decide about their end of this season tonight we are having Leverkusen will host them, and they are already having 2 goals deficit which is not easy to end after this next game against Atlanta is also important for their chances of going for the Champions League into next season.
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Atalanta vs Roma could be the big match this week, where both teams are trying to get tickets to the Champions League, but the chance of this match ending in a draw is wide open, or Atalanta winning three points because the home match will give Atalanta an advantage.
Atalanta seems to have had better results in the last few matches than Roma, but we can see that Atalanta is facing a relatively weak team so they can win three times in a row, but Roma failed to beat Atalanta in the first meeting this season so the match at Atalanta's home ground will be even more difficult for Roma to defeat its opponent.
Currently Atalanta and Roma have the same points in Serie A, but due to the greater goal difference, Atalanta is currently ranked higher than Roma. So this match will be very decisive for both teams, to have a greater chance of getting tickets to compete in the UCL. At Atalanta and Roma's first meeting this season, it was true that the match ended in a draw (1-1), at that time Roma was the host. However, at this meeting, Atalanta will be the host, which will certainly be more profitable for Atalanta. So the Roma players will definitely have to fight extra hard in this match, because if they lose or draw in this match, Roma's path to getting a ticket to the UCL will definitely be even more difficult.

However, if you look at the performance of Roma, currently coached by De Rossi, I think Roma will provide different resistance to Atalanta. The reason is, after De Rossi coached Roma, the performance of his players improved very rapidly. Apart from that, when Roma played against Atalanta in the previous meeting, as far as I remember, Roma was still under the guidance of Mourinho. And under Mourinho, Roma's performance was not good so it was natural that they were held to a draw by Atalanta. However, Roma's performance is now much better than at that time, so the possibility of Roma winning the match against Atalanta is also very big in this match.
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If Roma fails to give Daniele De Rossi an improved new contract, they will lose him to other top clubs. He turned the fortunes of Roma within a few months after the departure of Jose Mourinho. It would be ideal for the club management to give him a new contract and also allocate funds to buy new players to make the team strong enough to compete for the next season. The club is currently concerned about how to overturn the two-goal deficit they have in the Europa League against Bayern Leverkusen.

De Rossi is a Roma legend who has given a lot to Roma as a player and now as a coach, although he does not have much experience in coaching but finally he got a contract with Roma after Mourinho was fired, to be honest, I am personally quite surprised by his appointment as Roma coach at the time and I am pessimistic if he is able to bring Roma to be better than Mourinho after he officially became Roma coach this season,  De Rossi doesn't have a lot of experience coaching big teams so a lot of people including me think, is he capable?

Now he has shown his capacity as a talented rookie coach and is able to lead Roma to competition for the Champions League this season, reportedly Roma will extend De Rossi contract if he is able to lead Roma to play in the Champions League next season, so I think it would be a foolish decision if Roma no longer work with De Rossi if roma fail to play in the Champions League next season,  De Rossi has been able to lift Roma form even though he has little time to do so this season.
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If Roma fails to give Daniele De Rossi an improved new contract, they will lose him to other top clubs. He turned the fortunes of Roma within a few months after the departure of Jose Mourinho. It would be ideal for the club management to give him a new contract and also allocate funds to buy new players to make the team strong enough to compete for the next season. The club is currently concerned about how to overturn the two-goal deficit they have in the Europa League against Bayern Leverkusen.
I think De Rossi is the right manager for Roma because what his done in the last several months is very fantastic and Roma can performing well again under him and if i am not mistaken Roma has been announce about De Rossi future in this team because last month Roma owner officially has give De Rossi new contract and whatever the result of this season but it is confirmed De Rossi will being an Roma manager until season 2024/2025 and just like i said before Roma owner hasn't targetting the trophy this season so that's why whether it Roma lost or win against Leverkusen later then De Rossi position is still safe

About Roma chances for the match against Leverkusen on Europa League i think it's very hard because they have already to lost 2-0 in the first leg and Leverkusen is too strong to playing at their home and hard to beated so obviously Roma will be eliminated by Leverkusen and about Roma chances to playing at Champion League recently i have been realized about new regulation of Champion League and Serie A will gets 5 representative for that competition which mean if Roma want to playing at Champion League then they have to finish at least on the 5th place and the match against Atalanta this weekend is very important because if Roma want to fulfil their target then win result is mandatory for them
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If Roma fails to give Daniele De Rossi an improved new contract, they will lose him to other top clubs. He turned the fortunes of Roma within a few months after the departure of Jose Mourinho. It would be ideal for the club management to give him a new contract and also allocate funds to buy new players to make the team strong enough to compete for the next season. The club is currently concerned about how to overturn the two-goal deficit they have in the Europa League against Bayern Leverkusen.
 
Roma won't be able to hire a better coach, extending contract for De Rossi should be an easy decision. Any coach will be a gamble for Roma, they should just stick on De Rossi who have shown his capability to improve their performances with the available squad. The board just needs to back up De Rossi with required signings for next season.

Roma should just focus on improvements rather than rebuilding a new team. They don't have enough budget to sign quality players for ambition to build a stronger squad. De Rossi knows better the club, and he needs times to implement his plan that will align with the club's ambitions. Regardless the result of the Europa League semi-final game, Roma have been on the right track of improvement, it would not be wise to change all the things that have been on the way.  

I believe the Roma Board of Directors will retain coach Daniele De Rossi with a long-term contract after he has made a strong impression since replacing "Special One" Jose Mourinho. But I'm still skeptical about Daniele De Rossi's energy as Roma has continued to decline recently. Coach De Rossi has run out of miracles for the Roma team? Is he really good on the leadership bench or is he simply someone who creates "spiritual effects?" De Rossi will have to answer these doubts himself, with the biggest challenge for him being to turn the tables against Leverkusen in the semi-final second leg.

But the chance of overcoming Leverkusen to reach the Europa League final is almost non-existent after a 0-2 defeat at home in the first leg of the semi-finals, while Leverkusen plays more and more scary. Instead of putting all your effort into hoping to turn the tide in the second leg, I think Roma should probably focus more on the away match against Atalanta in Serie A this weekend. Because that is a more realistic opportunity for them to retain a beautiful outcome for this season.
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Roma can still qualify for any of the European competitions including the Champions League but it will depend on the ability of the club to win all its games and other top teams losing their games. They will keep gunning for a European ticket until the end of the season. If they they fail, however, next season will be a great opportunity for De Rossi to prove his worth.
It only takes 4 points if As Roma wants to enter the Champions League and fully hopes that Bologna will lose so that Roma can catch up on points. If you look at As Roma's game, how do they want to enter the Champions League when in every match they get a draw in their last 2 matches?  , plus having to focus on Leverkusen's match in the Europa Cup is very confusing for As Roma in a situation like this.
It is the same thing we are saying here. That Roma this time around should see wining Bologna as a priority draw should not be in the mind talk more of losing the game. This is one good opportunity to secure a place in the UCL.

I just checked their last meetings Bologna have had better advantage in terms of winning Roma and also the match against Leverkusen that is coming up soon will be something the manager would want to reserve some players. This will left me with no choice to bet on Bayern Leverkusen to win Roman. Its either they focus on going to UCL or they try to win the Europa Cup.
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AS Roma have drastically better performance under Daniele De Rossi era although with current performance inconsistency, first time arrived Roma get difficult reach to higher standings position and he was success made Roma qualified to semifinal round of Europe League.
Roma and the fans really understand that De Rossi will fail this season, however, De Rossi can be said to be successful even though he will only end up failing in the European league and failing to get a ticket to the next European music league.
De Rossi joined Roma at the wrong time and on the one hand he managed the existing players without making any changes and this was a very good result or a sign that De Rossi really deserved to be Roma coach.
but it all depends on how the Roma owner will give permission to De Rossi to make a transfer to get new players and if you remember how Roma finances are currently really limited, the Roma owner must provide the right policy and if you dare to take the risk of bringing in new players, give them freedom to De Rossi, I think there will be quite a good improvement in the next season.

btw there is still hope for Roma to try to get a top 5 position if after the European league matches are finished and Atalanta manages to qualify for the final, Roma will definitely have the opportunity to take advantage of this situation because Atalanta will definitely try to aim for the European league title.
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Roma can still qualify for any of the European competitions including the Champions League but it will depend on the ability of the club to win all its games and other top teams losing their games. They will keep gunning for a European ticket until the end of the season. If they they fail, however, next season will be a great opportunity for De Rossi to prove his worth.
It only takes 4 points if As Roma wants to enter the Champions League and fully hopes that Bologna will lose so that Roma can catch up on points. If you look at As Roma's game, how do they want to enter the Champions League when in every match they get a draw in their last 2 matches?  , plus having to focus on Leverkusen's match in the Europa Cup is very confusing for As Roma in a situation like this.
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Atalanta 19:45 Roma
Games of the week, the important one is Atalanta Roma, one of these 2 will be probably out from top 5.

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Atalanta vs Roma could be the big match this week, where both teams are trying to get tickets to the Champions League, but the chance of this match ending in a draw is wide open, or Atalanta winning three points because the home match will give Atalanta an advantage.
Atalanta seems to have had better results in the last few matches than Roma, but we can see that Atalanta is facing a relatively weak team so they can win three times in a row, but Roma failed to beat Atalanta in the first meeting this season so the match at Atalanta's home ground will be even more difficult for Roma to defeat its opponent.
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Friday 10th May
Frosinone 19:45 Inter Milan

Saturday 11th May
Napoli 17:00 Bologna
AC Milan 19:45 Cagliari

Sunday 12th May
Lazio 11:30 Empoli
Genoa 14:00 Sassuolo
Verona 14:00 Torino
Juventus 17:00 Salernitana
Atalanta 19:45 Roma

Monday 13th May
Lecce 17:30 Udinese
Fiorentina 19:45 Monza

Games of the week, the important one is Atalanta Roma, one of these 2 will be probably out from top 5.

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It will be impossible for Roma to qualify to the finals, because Leverkusen are more mean and desperate to win Europa this season. Let De Rossi think more of surviving on their domestic league to see if it will be possible for them to be in UCL next season or Europa, because that is where will determine the competition they will be playing next season in Europe. De Rossi has shown that he can do better next season if he is given the opportunity, by the way he revived the club after he took over from the former manager Mourinho.
It is impossible as you said but luck does happen sometimes in football just as we have seen how the highly rated PSG got eliminated yesterday in the UEFA Champions League by an underrated semifinalist Dortmund. Although Roma’s case is different since Leverkusen has already won the first leg match away from home, and winning Roma at home will be an easy task for them.
De Rossi is trying as Roma’s head coach, I think if he is given more time, he can do better because he have good tactics that can lead Roma to the limelight. I think the team need to be patient and played but in another Europa League next season since getting to the fourth position will be difficult for them.

I know that the two teams has a good performance to reach this stage to face each other to know the strongest team in this season, which the sign has shown in the face of Bayer Leverkusen, because they used their opportunity well in the first leg to achieved victory. Roma will going to Improve their performance in this match to use their home advantage to challenge their opponent not to score more than one goal from the match, which they are capable to make it happen to Bayer Leverkusen. Based on what people have experienced from the Roma manager in this season, show that he will perform more than this season next season if their president can give him the second chance next season to help the team to achieve Europa league title next season.
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Roma won't be able to hire a better coach, extending contract for De Rossi should be an easy decision. Any coach will be a gamble for Roma, they should just stick on De Rossi who have shown his capability to improve their performances with the available squad. The board just needs to back up De Rossi with required signings for next season.

Roma should just focus on improvements rather than rebuilding a new team. They don't have enough budget to sign quality players for ambition to build a stronger squad. De Rossi knows better the club, and he needs times to implement his plan that will align with the club's ambitions. Regardless the result of the Europa League semi-final game, Roma have been on the right track of improvement, it would not be wise to change all the things that have been on the way.  
AS Roma have drastically better performance under Daniele De Rossi era although with current performance inconsistency, first time arrived Roma get difficult reach to higher standings position and he was success made Roma qualified to semifinal round of Europe League. Become Roma manager and not make any transfer players behind squad or composition left by Jose Mourinho I don't think bad Daniele De Rossi achievement awhile in this season.
Roma's management seems happiness with Daniele De Rossi and will give him permanent contract, but need management support by spending much money to make Roma back to Champion League competition although in this season still has opportunity reach the top fourth position place.

Seems has difference performance for next season and Daniele De Rossi have full control for active in window transfer, management must braveness spend much money bring most talented players if want Roma return back to Scudetto race and get participants in Champion League.
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