Roma coach Paulo Fonseca believes injuries hit their campaign hard.

Fonseca will be replaced by Jose Mourinho at the end of the season.

“I will not be the coach next season, so it's not right for me to say what this team needs or does not need in future. I can only say that this season we missed important players during important periods of the campaign," said Fonseca in his press conference.

“We had no particular injury problems until March, other than the long-term absentees Nicolò Zaniolo and Chris Smalling. In March we had so many games and the same players were used, so the injuries piled up.

“It's not just us, it happened to other clubs in Europe too. Bayern Munich played PSG without seven first choice players. These are situations everyone saw more this year."