Well, I just dont see how Pep could pull EL final with roster like Roma. If they kept Zaniolo and Dybala was fit, then ok, but basically they played in final with too many wood. And only lost on penalties.
I dont know why Mou pulled Dybala off so early, guy played yesterday 102 minutes like a beast.
Dybala was barely ready for 30 minutes and played a lot more than he could have. And Sevilla knew it.
As for Roma, they have really bad defenders, I cannot consider Spinazzola a full member of that team and he's obviously refraining from being at full strength due to pain and injuries.
Zaniolo is half a player really. I cannot rate Abraham or this moving shadow of Belotti.
There's Pellegrini, there was Rui Patricio last year but not so much this year, Veretout was helpful last season - gone this year, Sergio Oliveira was also helpful in the time he spent at Roma.
Matic has been average, cannot reach Veretout levels. Wijnaldum wasn't bad, but he's not a leading player.
Zalewski is dependable given what else is around, but he's not a player you'd seek at a top 4 team.
There's Cristante who's above average, and there's El-Shaarawy who can turn it on once every 5 games but that's about it.
Roma needs 15 players that are all better than Cristante, Mancini, Smalling, Ibanez, Abraham etc, which isn't hard to pull off, but they just don't have it.
If Roma has any ambition, they need to replace all their players except Pellegrini, Dybala, Cristante, Spinazzola, Bove, Zalewski and I guess Rui Patricio since he has another year. Everyone else doesn't belong to a team that wants to play Champions League football in this day and age.
You may argue about Lazio being ahead of them - and us for that matter - but Lazio didn't concentrate on all fronts and if you go for a 4-3-3 formation which both teams mostly used, the only Roma starters would be Dybala, Pellegrini and a fit Spinazzola which we haven't really seen. Everyone else would barely be the first bench option. Such a bad team, but Mourinho being there makes people jumpy and they assume that it's some great team that has Totti, Cafu, Emerson, De Rossi, Montella, Candela, Tommasi and Cassano instead of the scrubs Dybala has to drag now..
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