2. They have other teams to look to for inspiration.
The evergreen captain Francesco Totti, who will be celebrating his 38th birthday in less than a week made it clear that his side are not looking just to be a blip on the continental stage this season. Indeed, the 2006 World Cup winner has pointed to last season’s Cinderella story, Atletico Madrid, who shocked all by making it all the way to the finals against Real Madrid in Lisbon, and in 2013, Borussia Dortmund doing the same as they took on Bundesliga heavyweights Bayern Munich in London. Now, while as mentioned before, they won’t have an easy task ahead, neither did Dortmund nor Atleti so indeed, it is not too unrealistic for Giallorossi fans to see their team competing in the latter stages sooner than they may think.