Roma played like big wall of china. Any ball that came to the its field being kicked out. That was making leverkusen's layers are frustating about how to make the aggregate to be the same. The most effective way that always being used by mourinho is forcing its opponent to attacking the club while it was forgetting about how important the defensive line is. Leverkusen used everything to win against roma but roma is far stronger compared with leverkusen in term of defensive.
I was also surprised how defensive AS Roma was playing yesterday. I mean i expected them to play very defensively because first of all they are a Italian team and they are always having their main focus on a solid defense and everything else comes after that. Secondly they are coached by Jose Mourinho which is also known to play a very defensive style of football.
That being said, i really did not expect them to play this defensive and this destructive. It was really hard to watch.
In addition to that they wasted time so often in the second half, it was really disgusting and had nothing to do with a fair game anymore. The one player even rolled back in onto the pitch even though he was already lying outside. The extra time should have been way longer too. It's a shame that a team that plays that way is now in the final.
Actually Mourinho is currently not so always dominant using his bus parking formation tactics. maybe it could be, because AS Roma got fierce resistance during the match in the first leg. plus they are 1 goal ahead on aggregate. it seems, Mourinho does not want to take risks to play offensively. well, referring to the first leg, Roma didn't play too defensively. we can even compare it to AS Roma against Feyenoord. they can also play with an offensive pattern, so the scenario is that AS Roma sees that Leverkusen has a chance to overthrow them in the second leg. that was why, his flagship formation was reused.
Well, I agree with what you say. little by little, the Roma players fell and this was repeated. I know, this is part of Mourinho's strategy so that the Leverkusen players are provoked by their emotions. and yes, they succeeded with the scenario. supposedly, if Leverkusen could be calmer and not provoked by AS Roma players, they would most likely be able to score goals. unfortunately, they played very hastily.
Well, interestingly, will Mourinho use the same tactic in the final match? for now, I assume Roma will play using a 3-4-1-2 system. and I hope, that's what happened.