Given that both Roma and Feyenoord came into the contest having already secured Europa League football for next season through their domestic league position, it was all about the glory in Tirana.Įarly on it looked like there was only going to be one winner, as Roma dominated the opening exchanges, without troubling Feyenoord goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, playing his first match since March 10. I’ve been at Roma for 11 months and I realised the moment I arrived what it meant – that they were waiting for this.” “Either you write it or you don’t and we wrote it. “Today wasn’t work, this was history,” Mourinho said. “I said yesterday that I never would’ve imagined at the age of 25 to achieve this with the Roma jersey and the captain’s armband. Now we have to celebrate and then start again, which is always difficult after a great victory, but a real team wins, celebrates and starts again,” Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini told Sky Sport Italia. That ensured that Mourinho became the first manager to win a European trophy with four different clubs, after previous successes at Porto, Inter Milan and Manchester United. Roma, whose only previous continental title was the old Fairs Cup in 1961, held off a spirited comeback from their Dutch opponents, who were twice denied by the woodwork in the second half. The 22-year-old Zaniolo earned Roma victory on Wednesday with an expertly-taken finish in the 32nd minute, as he became the first Italian to score in a European final since Filippo Inzaghi against Liverpool in the 2007 Champions League. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football list 2 of 4 A second chance for India’s Anwar Ali after a health-related ban list 3 of 4 What France can learn from an Algerian football victory list 4 of 4 ‘Major step’: US women’s football reaches agreement on equal pay end of list
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