The last and only time Roma and Fiano met was in the last 32 of the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League season. Of the players who played at that time, only current Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini is still in the team, while Karsdorp, who played for Feijano at that time, has now turned against them, so Roma's record of knocking out Feijano in two rounds with a total of 3-2 has lost its value of reference now, seven years later. For both teams, it's an unfamiliar opponent, while Roma are vying for their first-ever European trophy, Fiano are aiming to repeat their 2001/02 UEFA Cup triumph after a 20-year absence by reaching the final of a European tournament.
The starting lineups for the game are as follows:
 "F57↩马：Patrício; Mancini, Sterling, Ibañez; Karsdorp, Mkhitaryan, Cristante, Zalewski; Zaniolo, Pellegrini; Abraham.
飞燕诺：Bijlow; Geertruida, Trauner, Senesi, Malacia; Til, Aursnes, Kökçü; Nelson, Dessers, Sinisterra
Roma's Mkhitaryan actually played with a thigh injury, but the
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The gamble didn't pay off, as Mkhitaryan couldn't hold up after only fifteen minutes or so and had to use an early substitution to bring on Sérgio Oliveira.
The last time Mkhitaryan had a chance to win a European title was during the 2018/19 season when he played for Arsenal in the final of the Eredivisie in Asean Beiran, where Mkhitaryan, due to his sensitive status as an Armenian citizen, decided to stay in London for the sake of his personal safety after discussing the matter with his team and Arsenal went down 1-4.
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Three years later, Mkhitaryan played again with the team in the European final but failed to contribute because of an injury. Three years later, Mkhitaryan again played with the team in the European final but was unable to contribute to the team due to an injury, and left tears in his eyes when he was substituted off the field.
Minus the sudden incident of Mkhitaryan's exit, the first half of this match was slightly uneventful. Both sides spent the first 20 minutes testing each other, with no attempts on goal and little desire to even attack. Especially
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Roma set up the famous "Big Bus" formation, releasing the ball to Feijano, while their own players retreated and waited for the opportunity to counterattack. Roma's midfield line was very stable in this game, basically following the opponent's midfield line: when the opponent returned to the backfield to guide the ball, they would press forward; when the opponent controlled the ball in front of the field, they would retreat to a position close to the backline, so that the opponent didn't have too much space to attack.
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Most of the goals have come from attacks launched from the flanks, and in this game we can see that the
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The response to this: Roma's wing defenders take an extra step when the ball is in the opponent's possession on the flanks, preferring to let you go in the middle of the field rather than letting you launch an attack from the flanks. In addition, Roma's center and back lines were maintained quite tightly, and once the ball arrived at the center, they immediately blocked the ball, so Feijano's players couldn't find too many chances in the overcrowded center, and even though they possessed the ball, they almost didn't have a chance to shoot inside the penalty area.
On the offensive side, Roma relied on the individual ability of the players to push forward, and in the final third, as long as there was space, they would pick the ball over the defenders and play directly behind the opponent's defenders. In the 23rd minute, the first scoring chance of the match came in this way, Pellegrini's outswinging pass went past Feijano's defenders to Zaniolo, but the latter was too slow to get hold of the ball. Roma made a comeback in the 31st minute, Mancini's long ball was sent directly to Zaniolo, the height of the ball was just over Trauner's center back who jumped to try to clear the header, and this time Zaniolo seized the chance and controlled the ball, the second beat of the ball picked up the ball over the attacking Bijlow, and scored the first goal for Roma.
However, this kind of attacking pattern requires too much running and passing qualities, and Roma relied too much on Pellegrini and Zaniolo's individual ability, and they didn't threaten Feijano's goal again in the first half after deducting these two attacks.
At the other end of the pitch, Feijano still insisted on attacking from both wings. After a few short passes were blocked by the opponent's midfield, they started to try to play directly from the back to the two flanks. However, due to the lack of accuracy in the long passes, Feijano failed to threaten Roma's goal before Roma took the lead. Roma missed a few passes on the side of the field, which allowed Feijano to pass into the center of the field, and the defenders didn't choose to play with the ball.
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Dessers, the king of goals, took a hard shot, instead jamming in front of Dessers before scrambling for a header. This position left Dessers with no way of converting a threatening header, and although Feijano had five shots on goal in the first half, they hardly threatened Patrício, and the only shot on target was a long-range effort straight at him, which was certainly not a problem for the Portuguese international goalkeeper.
