Ahead of their Europa League semi final second leg tie against Bayer Leverkusen, Jose Mourinho believes his Roma team have ‘already won’ the competition because they are the only team left.
Mourinho said that his Roma team had already won the Europa League because they had been there from the beginning, as opposed to teams that dropped down from the Champions League like Leverkusen.
During his press conference ahead of the game, Mourinho had this to say:
“If I did not have the ambition of trying to win, it would be very easy for me to say now that we have already won the Europa League”.
“Because if the Europa League is for the teams that started this competition, then Roma have won”.
Roma and Mourinho are on the verge of reaching their second consecutive European championship final.
Roma are the favorites to make it to the final after winning the first leg at home by a score of 1-0, and they will now face the winner between Sevilla and Juventus in the final if they make it past Bayer Leverkusen tonight.