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It’s the second leg of the most eye-catching tie in the Europa League knockout play-offs. Both of these world-famous clubs have won this competition before, if you define your terms broadly, generously and in good faith: Feyenoord lifted the Uefa Cup in 1974 and 2002, while Roma won the 1961 edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, not officially recognised by Uefa as a predecessor of today’s tournament, but widely considered to be exactly that by just about everyone other than extreme pedants or The Man. You get it.
Of the two clubs, Feyenoord have the greater European pedigree, on account of their 1970 European Cup win. But Roma have been their bosses in recent years. In 2022, Jose Mourinho’s Giallorossi beat Feyenoord in the first-ever final of the Europa Conference League. Then last season, they did a number on the men from Rotterdam again, this time in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, en route to a Budapest final they’d lose on penalties to Sevilla. How they’d love to go one better this time under new boss Daniele De Rossi.