I am a bit concerned that Roma lacks some balance within their team. On the one hand they have great offensive players like Lukaku or Dybala when he is fit, but then I think there is some gap in between their defense and their offense. Their backwards movement within the team as a whole is not very good at the moment. Maybe this is something that De Rossi can fix and stabilize them defensively. If they have a stable defense and go from there, Lukaku and their offensive players can win them the games. But if you look at the whole Roma squad, it's not the highest quality in Serie A let alone in the Europa League. Still though this doesn't mean they can't make it very far.
At the beginning of De Rossi's arrival as Roma coach, replacing Jose Mourinho, quite a lot of people doubted that he could take Roma a step further in the Europa League this season, but in the 2 matches that De Rossi has played with Roma, it was quite impressive and I think this could be The benchmark that Rome cannot be underestimated either.
I think in the Europa League this season there are quite a lot of teams that have almost equal quality so it is quite difficult to predict.
There is nothing impressive at all about AS Roma's two wins in Serie A against mediocre teams because yes, those two mediocre teams are also currently only in the lower zone there in the Serie A table. Also, although AS Roma managed to win but ya, the reality is that AS Roma can still concede to against mediocre teams and therefore, there is no impressive result for AS Roma in this moment.
Unless, if AS Roma manages to win big with a clean sheet and also, the opponent is an elite Serie A team then it will be impressive. But at this moment, there is still no guarantee that AS Roma will get good results in the Europa League. Although indeed, AS Roma only played against Feyenoord but ya, obviously playing in the Europa League will have a different tension and there is no definite guarantee for De Rossi to be able to provide good results for AS Roma here in the Europa League.
Yes, in the sense that there are no guarantees whatsoever regarding Roma's future in the UEL, even though yesterday they were able to win, but unfortunately the opponent that Roma faced was not a strong club so there would not be a very impressive impression if they were only able to beat a weak club in the domestic league.
Indeed, we say this about the UEL, but actually we cannot compare the performance in the domestic league with the performance in the UEL, it will be very different because all the clubs in this competition will be more aggressive.
But even so, everything still depends on the Roma coach whether De Rossi is able to provide the best reputation for Roma and pay off all the bad criticism about him.
I'm just waiting for Roma to play against Inter Milan in series A and if in that match Roma gets satisfactory results, that means it's an early sign that Roma has improved and I don't expect Roma to win, but just being able to get a draw against Inter is proof that Roma has a little enhancement.
During Rossi shows consistency at his club, I'm sure he won't be underestimated anymore, even most of the people who underestimate him will be embarrassed to see Roma success in the UEL.