For the first time in history five teams Italians go to the Champions League. And the Roma comes sixth. An incredible astral situation could even give us sixth place, but against all love of country theAtalanta he beats Torino and denies an extra team to Italy and the Europe that matters to Roma. A curse. The last verdict of Serie A has also arrived, together with the last-minute salvation of Empoli and the relegation of Frosinone: Inter will play in the Champions League next year, MilanJuventus, Atalanta and Bologna. Not Rome. They hoped for it yellow and redthroughout the second half of the season when the arrival of From Rossi it changed the momentum of the season. Then during the Europa League semi-finals against Bayer Leverkusenand even afterwards, when everything seemed lost and Atalanta’s triumph had reopened a further, unexpected window. Nothing.
Speak about curse however it is not entirely appropriate, because it alludes to a component of randomness, almost out of bad luck, that there wasn’t. Roma’s failure to qualify in Champions it is above all a demerit, a fault. And an incredible wasted opportunity. THE yellow and red they have not participated since 2019: in the last six seasons they have had to clash with theobjective difficulty to achieve one of the top four places in a championship where three are generally booked by Juve, Inter and Milan and the other candidates end up competing for a single place. However, if in the year in which the places become five you arrive sixth, the problem begins to be yours: slip behind ad Atalanta e Bologna, with the third largest salary in Serie A (more than double the Orobic team, triple the Emilian team), with championship-winning players of the caliber of Lukaku, Dybala, Pellegrini, it is simply unacceptable. Confirmation of complete failure of the Giallorossi project.
Now the widows of Mourinho perhaps they will miss the Portuguese, convinced that with him things would have gone differently in the semi-final against Leverkusen, or at least that the final disappointment is the demonstration that the problem was the team and not the coach. In reality, since he sat on the Giallorossi bench, De Rossi has had an average of Champions, he paid for the energy spent on the comeback at the end. It’s what happened before him that ruined Roma’s season. And this failure to qualify is Mourinho’s final legacy. Who had been chosen by the Friedkins essentially for this: not for a third tier cup (which it is no coincidence that Napoli did everything possible not to play for), not for the scenes in the garage o in conference press, but to help Roma make the leap in quality. Which in modern football essentially means continuously qualifying for the Champions League: it is no coincidence that the rebirth of Inter and Milan coincided with the return to Europe (the recent history of the Nerazzurri, for example, changes with Vecino’s famous goal at the Olimpico against Lazio). A missed target three times out of three: and today Roma is the exact same team as before.
With fifth place in disposition, right there at hand, this was the good year for the turning point. If it wasn’t now, who knows when it will be. The only recrimination remains, in a country where the rule of “two injured people is better than one dead” has always been valid, and after the championship celebration the Italian champions give three points to the penultimate team in the standings, that they have found a team on their path very little Italian like Atalanta, with the least Italian coach ever like Gasperini, who honored the championship until the end by denying sixth place in Champions to our football. There was half Lega e FederCalcio ready to rejoice over Atalanta’s defeat and sixth place, around seventy million more in revenue from the movement. But ultimately that’s right. Those who deserve it go to the Champions League. Inter, champions of Italy, obviously, and the Milan which by detachment was the second force; Juventus who finished badly but had been fighting for the title until February, the Bologna who made the season of life, the wonderful Atalanta who won theEuropa League. Roma did nothing. And next year he will still be watching the cup that counts from the sofa.
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2024-05-27 11:26:09
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