The last day of the championship is decisive for Roma who can still hope to qualify for the Champions League from sixth in the standings. Everything depends on Atalanta’s results, here are the combinations favorable to the Giallorossi.
Next season Italy will have five teams in the Champions League for the first time. But a sixth formation could be added to Inter, Milan, Juventus, Bologna and Atalanta, and in this case it would be Roma. Atalanta has been added to the four canonical teams, which belong to Serie A, also as winners of the Europa League (now fifth) and thanks at the Eps (European Performance Spot), the best coefficient obtained by the federation this season, the result of the results of the Italians, has been assigned to Serie A an extra place in the next edition of the new Super Champions.
Italy’s sixth place in the Champions League is, however, linked to Atalanta’s position in the standings at the end of the championship. The success in Dublin against Bayer means that the extra slot is available on one condition. The further slot, the one that would qualify Roma, will exist if Gasperini’s team does not finish in the top four. In that case Roma will be able to participate in the Big Ears Cup by virtue of the space left free by Atalanta (qualified through the Europa League).
What Roma need to go to the Champions League
The grid of Champions League qualifiers is almost completely defined. Roma still have hope of returning but are not the architects of their own destiny: they must hope that Gasperini’s team against Torino and Fiorentina (championship rematch scheduled for 2 June) does not obtain more than two points. In short, in short, they do not overtake either Bologna (beaten by Genoa) or Juventus in the standings, respectively +2 and +5 from the Dea.
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The team of Daniele De Rossi no he is the architect of his own destiny. Because his fate will be entirely in Atalanta’s hands and that’s why whatever result Roma achieves in Empoli will be irrelevant to its destiny.
The Serie A standings before the last day of the championship.
The combinations of results that qualify Roma for the Champions League: it all depends on Atalanta
Below are the combinations of results which, based on Atalanta’s results, allow Roma to qualify for the Champions League:
- Atalanta drew their last two league matches. Juventus has risen to 71 points, Bologna closes with 68. Atalanta is on 66, and has to play two games. By drawing against Torino and Fiorentina, the Nerazzurri would be level with Bologna on 68 points, but they are better off in direct matches. So with two draws in the last two of Serie A, Atalanta would remain in 5th place and this result would qualify Roma for the Champions League.
- Atalanta get a draw and a defeat in the last two of Serie A. With the direct comparisons favorable to Bologna, Atalanta enters the top 4 of Serie A if they win one of the last two Serie A matches. By drawing one match and losing the other they would not move away from fifth place.
