Soccer Football - Champions League Quarter Final Second Leg - AS Roma vs FC Barcelona - Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy - April 10, 2018 Roma's Daniele De Rossi and Alessandro Florenzi celebrate after the match REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
ROME (Reuters) - AS Roma captain Daniele de Rossi heaped praise on coach Eusebio Di Francesco for masterminding an incredible 3-0 win over Barcelona on Tuesday which took the Italians into the European Cup semi-finals for the first time in 34 years.
Di Francesco abandoned the 4-5-1 shape he used in the 4-1 first-leg defeat by Barca at the Nou Camp, instead engineering a 3-5-2 formation which saw his side overwhelm the Liga leaders with relentless high pressing and long balls behind the defence.
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