The semi-finals of the European Association Cup will be contested in the early hours of tomorrow morning, with Rogers's Leicester City and Jose Mourinho's Roma team, and this time, Mourinho's team will face the England powerhouse first.
Although it was a high-stakes match, Mourinho and roma players still came with friendship, and according to England reports, the Roma general arrived at his destination, just like Leicester City's former boss, Vichai's sculpture and laid a wreath in front of it.
This is a key game for Mourinho to win the cup this season
At present, Leicester City ranks 10th in the Premier League, and the possibility of squeezing into the European zone this season is very low, on the one hand, the team has repeated injuries, including captain Vardy, as well as Evans, Ndidi and other key players have repeatedly been absent due to injuries, which has brought a lot of trouble to the team.
Leicester City, on the other hand, seem to have encountered some bottlenecks, with their form slipping this season and the team's ability to score goals is worrying compared to last season, especially on the offensive end.
Roma are currently in Serie A 5th, which is mourinho's team, the best result that can be achieved this season, and there is almost no possibility of going further.
This season, Roma has undergone major changes, the former main strikers Dzeko and Mayoral have left the team, the main full-back Spinazzola has not yet played, Mourinho has gradually stabilized Roma's form in the recent past, becoming a competitive team in Serie A.
Leicester City is more promising than Rome?
Despite the wide gap in the rankings of the two sides in their respective leagues, Leicester Remain one of the most favoured champions in European football, followed by Feyenoord in the Dutch League.
Rogers
Rodgers' side were eliminated from the europa League group stage, and they were in the same group as the amazing Sparta Moscow and Napoli, and Leicester City eventually entered the European Association Cup in third place.
Here's a relatively more worthy object to refer to: Naples.
Leicester City have played Napoli twice in the europa League group stage, with Leicester City drawing 2-2 at home and losing 2-3 away.
In fact, it can be seen that Leicester City's attacking power in European competitions seems to be much higher than in the league, which is what Roma need to be cautious about.
And Roma has also played napoli twice in the league, the first leg Roma at home mainly played defensive counterattack, the two sides fought fiercely for 90 minutes, and finally drew 0-0, as far as the post-match situation is concerned, both teams seem to be unconvinced by this result, because both sides have the possibility of winning.
Mourinho was red in this game
On April 19, Roma ushered in the second leg of the match with Napoli, the away game roma compared to the beginning of the season, the degree of running-in has been much better, Mourinho no longer trying to defeat the opponent through defensive counterattack, but with Napoli a big fight against the attack, but the two sides of the goal is really worrying, and finally it is a 1-1 draw.
Obviously, from the process of playing against Napoli twice, Roma seems to have more advantages, at least not failed, and in the face of Napoli, which is at the top of the European offensive strength, Roma only conceded one goal in two legs, and defensively, Roma is also a little better.
Even so, however, Leicester's strength was not necessarily much worse than rome's.
First, Leicester City have scored 47 goals and conceded 51 goals in 32 Premier League rounds, still second only to European teams, and if two make-up matches are completed, Leicester City's goals may continue to rise.
However, Leicester City's average of 1.47 goals per game is only a little less than Roma's average of 1.62 goals per game, and if you consider the cost of the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, which is much higher than the middle and lower teams in Serie A, Leicester City's true strength is indeed elusive.
In particular, Leicester City eliminated the third place in Ligue 1 and the second place in the Dutch First Division in the knockout stage of the European Association Cup, which may be the reason why more people are optimistic about Leicester City.
Historical records and injury information on both sides
It was the first meeting in the history of Leicester and Rome.
Before Roma goes on the road, there are still many interesting little news: for example, leicester City's package is 35 euros + 10 euros for meals, which exceeds the UEFA ceiling, although this has nothing to do with Rome, but Rome's gold boss will take the initiative to make up the difference of 10 euros for fans.
Rome wanted a united effort to overcome Leicester
But it should be noted that this is the third time roma have reached the semi-finals of a European competition in recent years, but have not yet reached the final, and it is clear that Mourinho needs to lead the team to overcome this "tradition".
Like Mourinho said before the game, not making it to the semi-finals of the final doesn't make any sense.
Judging by the last round of matches: roma have no injury stops, and even Spinazzolla has the hope of making his season debut in this game!
Leicester City: Vardy, who has been injured for a long time, has finally returned, and he came off the bench in the midweek league, but midfielder Ndidi and defender Portland and substitute goalkeeper Yakupovic did not qualify for this game.
Vardy was a great threat to Rome
Sumare, who was previously injured, has also returned to the big list, and although Leicester City has many injuries, their squad thickness is also better than Roma, so the impact is not very large.
Fox City vs Roma Wolves, this is probably the best knockout match in the European Association Cup
In this European Association Cup, people can no longer find such two famous European powerhouses, it is worth mentioning that Roma and Leicester City are typical home dragon teams, Roma have only lost three of their 23 home games this season, these three opponents are ac Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus.
Leicester City have only lost 4 of their 25 home games this season, losing against Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
This is likely to mean that even if Rome loses this game, there is still a possibility of reversal after returning to the home field, it is said that when Rome is at home, there will be an influx of 300,000 fans, in addition to sitting in the stadium, there will be a big screen outside the stadium to support the team!
This is not a simple "European Association Cup" level team.