Despite Roma losing points in the league, Mourinho knows what to do in cup games. They won the first game 1-0 at home. The goal came at 63 minutes. I expected the goal earlier, but there was no goal in the first half. In the second match, Mourinho will be looking for a goal from the counters by playing defensively. In this way, I think that he can easily write his name in the final. The coach of the cups is about to win a trophy again. The Mourinho level is a whole other level.
Mourinho is every experienced and smart and his tactics is perfect for knock-out matches. I felt like he intentionally reserved his players for Europa League when he saw that opportunities for AS Roma to compete for top four in Serie A becomes vague in a last few weeks.
Roma did not play better than Leverkusen in a first leg semi final and they even faced with conceded goal in early of first half. However, they played strictly in tactics and minimized chances for Leverkusen to have goals in Olimpico. Bove again had another great match for Roma and he has become a new icon in Rome. He is a home-grown player for them, just like Totti and De Rossi and now started to have bright future with them.
It was a magnificent goal from Gatti to end the game on the 97th minutes of the extra time. The equalising goal has brought hope back to the Italian side. Juventus deserves the goal because they took total control of the second half and they mounted pressure on Sevilla till Gatti finally broke the deadlock on Sevilla. So many opportunities were not properly used by Juve, as they lost many chances in the second half.
It is a simple goal for Gatti, not a magnificent one but it is so important for Juventus. With this goal, they had a draw and will play a second leg in Seville with less pressure.
We know that Sevilla have very good support from his fans at their home stadium and it won't be easy test for any guest. Juventus actually deserve to have goals in the match after many opportunities they created. In that equalizer, if not Gatti, Milik can score it too as they both can complete that situation easily.
This draw will help Juventus and Serie A to hope that they will have an Italian final match in Europa League between Juventus and AS Roma.