ROMA beat Feyenoord 1-0 in the final of the first ever Europa Conference League to secure Jose Mourinho his fifth European trophy.
Nicolo Zaniolo scored the game’s only goal in the first-half and Roma hung onto their precarious lead for the rest of the game to spark wild celebrations on the pitch at full-time.
- RESULT: Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
- Roma XI: Patricio, Mancini, Smalling, Ibanez, Karsdorp, Cristante, Mkhitaryan, Pellegrini, Zalewski, Zaniolo, Abraham
- Feyenoord XI: Biljow, Geertruida, Sensei, Malacia, Sinisterra, Kokcu, Nelson, Aursnes, Trauner, Til, Dessers
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Roma are UEFA Conference League winners
Jose Mourinho has taken his Roma side to European silverware.
For the first time since 2008, the Giallorossi are champions.
The parties will go long into the night for the fans.
Bringing the good times back
The project Mourinho signed up to at Roma was to get the club back to where it should be, not only in Italy but European football.
Back to the days where they were playing in European Cup finals, narrowly losing to a Liverpool side arguably the best side in Europe at that time.
Nobody expected him to bring silverware so soon.
Jose is ahead of schedule here,
Are you not entertained?
Jose Mourinho will be known up and down the streets of Rome as ‘Quella Speciale’ after this victory in the final tonight.
The club hadn’t won a trophy for fourteen years and the Portuguese manager has brought glory back to the Italian capital.
Players and staff celebrate with their travelling fans.
FT: Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
Roma are Conference League champions!!!
Jose Mourinho has extended his perfect European final record.
Finally the Italians have the silverware they craved for so long.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
90+4. Even the Feyenoord keeper was up for that corner.
That creates problems when Roma clear the ball and Feyenoord struggle to deal with it and get back on the front foot.
Roma are boxing their opponents into their own half.
Spinazzola is booked for dive trying to win a free kick.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
90+2. Roma are defending deep now.
They have no interest in going forward.
All committed to keeping the Dutch side out.
For one of the first times in the second half Smalling loses a flick on and Linssen does not react to sweep home.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
90. We won’t see much attacking from a Mourinho side at this point.
He knows all they have to do is to hold on to what they have.
Drawing in fouls, going to ground, running the clock down.
It looks like we are going to have an additional five minutes of added time, your guess is as good as mine as to where that has come from.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
88. Abraham is pulled down on the halfway line.
The referee succumbs to Mourinho’s wishes and awards a free kick.
Roma looking to run the clock down as much as they can now.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
86. Roma with a rare counter attack.
The ball is threaded into the box to Pellegrini.
He shoots at goal but the Feyenoord keeper is equal to it.
That would have been the trophy won right there.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
84. Roma are starting to look dead on their feet.
Always baffles me when we see this as a final is still the 90 minutes they are conditioned to play for every day of their professional lives.
Patricio is playing pass the parcel with the ball until the referee blows his whistle to pass it around again.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
82. Zaniolo is the only out-ball for Roma now.
Abraham is coming so deep to defend that there is a lack of options in front of the defence for any counter attack.
Dessers has another chance but his shot is blocked yet again by Chris Smalling.
Sinisterra gets a shot away from outside of the box but it is straight at Rui Patricio.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
80. Another player who has blossomed in Italy is Chris Smalling.
He has bossed Dessers tonight and the tournament’s top scorer has got no change whatsoever out of the centre back.
Some last-ditch defending here by Mourinho’s side.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
78. Roma are getting a bit anxious in defence.
Anywhere will do at times.
Feyenoord still trying to unpick the Roma defence.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
76. This is attack versus defence stuff at the moment.
Feyenoord have all the time in the world to try and find a cross.
Surely the Italians cannot keep this up for the remainder of the game.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
74. The Dutch side make a final roll of the dice with two substitutions.
They need to find something to create at least one more clean-cut chance in the final 15 minutes of this game.
It is Roma’s job to see that doesn’t happen.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
72. Feyenoord have completed twice as many passes as Roma in the game to this point.
As is the harsh mistress football can so often be, they still find themselves trailing in the final.
Roma win themselves a corner in front of their fans.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
70. Feyenoord are trying to stretch Roma on the flanks.
With their pace on the attack they know they can stretch the Italians and get in behind them.
Pellegrini has been quiet for Mourinho’s side in this second half.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
68. Roma’s turn for a spell in their opponent’s half.
The ball just will not drop for Tammy Abraham to hit it.
His mis-hit shot loops over to the back post and out for a goal kick.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
66. Roma win their first corner of the second half, much to the delight of their fans behind the goal.
Pellegrini takes the corner which is flicked on at the near post.
Zaniolo tries to hit it and it deflects for a throw in off the Feyenoord defender.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
64. The travelling Roma fans make themselves heard again.
For all their dominance, Feyenoord cannot find a way through this Italian defensive line.
The Dutch side continue their patient build-up play.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
62. Arne Slot’s side are dominating this second half.
They just cannot get a meaningful effort on goal.
Roma are getting everything in between the Feyenoord players and their goal.
If they do manage to get past that Patricio is proving quite the obstacle.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord – Dessers chance!
60. We are into the final thirty minutes of this final……maybe.
Dessers seemingly is through on goal and just as he is about to get a shot away, Ibanez comes from nowhere to block the shot.
Roma are defending like armies of old here.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
58. Feyenoord are constantly knocking on the door here.
They realise without a goal they are dead and buried.
Smalling puts his body on the line again to block a shot from the Dutch side.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
56. The whole point of video technology was to leave us with less talking points at the end of the game.
We seem to have more and more.
Slot has got his team playing as a more fluid entity, looking more like the side who have impressed in the previous rounds.
Roma 1-0 Feyenoord
54. Feyenoord are coming forward with pace and purpose more and more often now.
Roma are struggling to cope with the attacks.
Going back to the Abraham foul, it surely should have been a red card for the Feyenoord defender at the very least there.
Big talking point.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
