In January, Roma opted to survive with a broken arm, sacking Jose Mourinho and leaving the inexperienced De Rossi in charge. At the beginning, Roma was crazy about grabbing points, and the limelight was unmatched for a while, and as soon as Roma was happy, they announced in advance that De Rossi would continue to coach next season. However, it now seems that Roma has changed their manager for nothing, as the team is still in danger of missing out on Champions League qualification.
In this round of Serie A, Roma played away against Atalanta, and if this loss to the opponent, Roma would be basically hopeless in fighting for five. They were still beaten 2-1 and Roma will pay a heavy price for it.
Roma have been slow to get into the groove this campaign, especially at the back, who look yet to emerge from the slump of being eliminated from the Europa League. In this game, they faced De Ketelaere, and there was no way to do it. In just 2 minutes of the first half, he scored 2 goals in a row, and the Roma defenders were easily blown up.
In the second half, Roma eased up a bit as they relied on a penalty from Tammy Abraham before Manuel Pellegrini netted to close the gap. Unfortunately, Roma scored this 1 goal, and then they had no results and had to lose 1-2 in the end.
After this campaign, Roma finally finished this wave of devils' schedule, unfortunately, they played against Bologna, Napoli, Juventus and Atalanta 4 strong teams, the result was 2 draws, 2 losses and 0 wins, during which only 2 points were obtained, which also led to the probability of Roma missing the top five. Obviously, the result of Roma getting 2 points in 4 games is very different from the previous 11 games with 8 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. As it turned out, it wasn't De Rossi who was capable, he just took advantage of the schedule. In other words, Roma's change of coach basically loses its meaning, and if Mourinho leads the team, he is also likely to steal points in an easy schedule.
With an away defeat to Atalanta, Roma are in jeopardy for the top five. So far, they have 1 more game, and they are still 3 points behind their opponents, plus this season against Atalanta, Roma 1 draw and 1 loss are not dominant, and then Atalanta only needs to get 3 more points, Roma will definitely miss the top five.
This season, Serie A has secured five Champions League places, and Roma were once the favourites for the top five, but now they have been beaten back to their original form. Next, once they miss the top five, there is only one premise left for Roma to enter the Champions League. If Roma retain sixth place, then sixth in Serie A will qualify for the Champions League as long as Atalanta do not finish in the top four and win the Europa League. Roma will then have to tearfully cheer for their top five rivals, and only Atalanta will have any hope of qualifying for the Champions League if Atalanta beat Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League final. Otherwise, they will play in the Europa League at most next season!