Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 153. (Read 58896 times)

In such a competitive competition, you can not allow such a gap to happen and worst part about all this is that it all happened in their own backyard and they have themselves to blame as a 3goal difference was massive!!!

Honestly, If they weren't so wasteful that comeback would have happened, and Salah for starters  threw away a good chance after he failed to find the target when he tried to lob the ball over the keeper in a one on one situation , ebut that's football and EPL teams haven't been at their best in this competition which sacks...

Too over confident maybe, and unfortunately won't get a glorified sendoff either as he hasn't brought in some silverware in his last season as manager of LFC.

Btw, I think first leg his players lacked the fitness levels required as they were coming back from injuries and what not...but less see how he concludes the EPL season as he says his goodbyes.

Atalanta will be able to win the first two games mentioned here because they have always had a great competitive moment and participated in the semi-final match. But even if Marseille is strong, Atalanta will win if these two teams compete closely.

Marseille will meet Atalanta in the semifinals. If you look at the opponents and the performance of the two teams in the quarter-finals, I think Atalanta has a bigger chance than Marseille and I think Atalanta will be the one to qualify for the final round.

Meanwhile, in the other semifinal, Roma will play against Bayer Leverkusen. Roma has not had a very impressive performance in Serie A this season, but when playing in the European League, they appeared quite dominant, they could even easily beat AC Milan, which incidentally is in second place in Serie A. They also got this victory with only 10 players. So I think Leverkusen will face a very worthy opponent.

Liverpool beat Atalanta in the away game thanks to a penalty from Mohamed Salah but that was the only goal Liverpool scored so it wasn't enough to get rid of Atalanta and take Liverpool to the semi-finals. Liverpool looked less enthusiastic after losing in the first leg by a big score and didn't have any effort. to play more aggressively in providing attacks so that Liverpool was unable to beat Atalanta with the same score that Atalanta did so they could not take a penalty, now Premier League clubs Liverpool and West Ham have been eliminated from the UEFA Europa League tournament and all of them were eliminated in the quarter-finals returned to the Premier League with deep disappointment.

Whereas Bayer Leverkusen qualified for the semifinals and eliminated West Ham, no one was able to stop Leverkusen's record in all competitions and in the next match Leverkusen will face Roma. We'll see if Roma is able to stop Leverkusen in the semifinals, but it looks like Leverkusen will continue their unbeaten record. Even though Roma had a good record in the Europa League last season, I don't think it was enough to stop Leverkusen who want to get the UEFA trophy for the first time in history.

Atalanta beat Liverpool and entered the semi-finals of the European League.
Marseille advanced to the semi-finals after beating Benfacia on penalties.

Marseille Vs Atalanta

Both Marseille and Atalanta have worked hard to enter the semi-finals in the Europa League, and finally they succeeded and qualified. They will definitely change their game more from the semi-final to the final match.

AC Milan vs Roma Both teams played well enough to enter the semi-finals. Roma in particular have been the most attacking, and they have made it through to the semi-finals with a lot of effort. Roma players were sent off after receiving a red card but they held their game strong and snatched away the win from the opposition.

West Ham vs Leverkusen saw plenty of attacks between the two teams and ended in a draw in the second leg. But Leverkusen took a two-goal lead in the first leg, which saw them draw the second leg and win by one goal to advance to the semi-finals.

West Ham vs Leverkusen

Liverpool's main goal will be to draw today's match 3-3. And it is not an impossible task. Liverpool have the ability to score 3 goals against Atalanta. But since Atalanta had already won the first leg 3-0. So in today's match, Atalanta will play a completely defensive strategy. And if a team has 10 players playing the role of defender, it becomes more difficult for the opposing players to score. If Atalanta don't play defensively today, I think we will see a lot of goals in this match.

Liverpool's overall performance in the first leg match was not bad. But the team could not score a single goal. Liverpool players had 71% of the ball possession. and carried out many attacks. Even then, they could not break Atlanta's defense. There is no doubt that Atalanta's defense is strong. So scoring three goals against this team today is a big challenge for Liverpool players.

Yeah we have guessed that Liverpool are unable to do it because Atalanta applies a super defensive game so Liverpool can't score more goals, even though we know Liverpool have tried to score until the last minute. Atalanta became the second team to take place in the semi-finals and previously AS Roma also defeated AC Milan with an aggregate 3-1 and concluded Serie A dominated the European League this season because leaving 2 teams there.

Of all the teams in the semi-finals that caught my attention is Bayer Leverkusen, this team is in the spotlight for its achievements in the Bundesliga and Europa League so the problem is whether they are able to beat AS Roma in the upcoming match? we will see the results in May and I hope Bayer Leverkusen will go to the final.

Liverpool's elimination from the Europa League is quite shocking. Their performance was disappointing, but it's fair to say they brought it upon themselves. Losing 3-0 at home without scoring a single goal sets the stage for failure. Atalanta outperformed them in both legs, particularly in the first one. Congratulations to Atalanta for their victory.

When Marseille plays like they did, success is inevitable. Luck also was on their side as Marseille defeated Benfica 4-2 on penalties! It's great to see Auba and Marseille succeed. Congratulations to Marseille on their win!

Roma delivered an incredible performance in the last game and it must be noted that if roma performed differently. Roma deserves it because Rossi implemented a defensive strategy that has greatly benefited the club and it was able beating acmilan again like the first leg and this is amazing result. Maybe people rarely talk about Roma, but this club has the potential to win the trophy this season since it was going to the final last season. The moment when Acmilan's defender goes one on one with Lukaku is funny about how acmilan's defender falling after he lost against lukaku.

No doubt, if people refer to Lukaku as a very strong guy because he has a very strong , I expect his physic to be even stronger than Haaland from Manchester City. Acmilan once again received a ba result and this may be signalling acmilan to sack pioli as soon as possible.

Time for Pioli to leave the club because he is a disaster for the club. Acmilan's performance is deteriorating even further, which is a completely unacceptable outcome.

UEFA european league leg-2 match is over and results are announced. Here we see that a team like Liverpool lose against Atlanta and they are eliminated from the quarter finals it is very difficult for Liverpool. If they had played well in the first match and scored a few goals, they might not have lost today. However, Liverpool's game did not improve as they lost against Atalanta and crashed out of the Europa League. Moreover, Atalanta played well enough at their home ground and did not allow Liverpool to attack successfully to finish the match, which led to Liverpool's 1-3 defeat. Atalanta have entered the semi-final match and they will next face a team from the French league in Marseille to ensure the final match, which will certainly be more exciting.

They have two matches to play in quarter final and if they can not win, they can not blame it on lack of luckiness in two matches. Here, lack of luckiness is for all Premier League clubs in Champions League and Europa League, from many matches. I don't see coincidence that many clubs from a same league got too many unluckiness in many knock-out matches. They must be realistic with their performances that contribute to their failures, and figure out weakness that they can improve to come back stronger next season.

Xabi Alonso and De Rossi are very young coaches and they are doing well with their clubs. A semi final meeting between two clubs and two young coaches, mean one of them will participate in Europa League final. It means a lot for such young coaches and this experience is different than final matches they played as players.

In a semi final with AC Milan hours ago, Xabi Alonso and De Rossi shown that they are very good with tactics and player substitutions to help their clubs secure advantage and go to semi finals. This will make their two semi final matches very promising for watching.

This season seems to be an unlucky season for EPL clubs in bigger competitions. No team from the Premier League has managed to reach the semi-finals of either the European League or the Champions League. And this is quite surprising even though all the top teams from the Premier League actually have extraordinary performance. But unfortunately they played badly in an important match.

But in the semi-final match, I now see that there will be a very, very interesting match between the team coached by Xabi Alonso and the team coached by De Rossi. These two clubs are in extraordinary form. And I think these two teams should meet in the final. Unfortunately they had to meet earlier. I'm not sure which to favorite. because Rome currently also looks very strong. Likewise with Leverkusen.

Yeah as i predicted that liverpool was unable in beating atalanta.



The stats have been showing how strong atalanta's defensive. Liverpool could only score through penalty and im guessing that those who were betting on liverpool never be realitics. they keep being delusional by thinking liverpool could comeback like what happened against atalanta in 2020.
Atalanta was playing defensively here and it's successfully sent off liverpool to leave from the comeptition. Amazing performance from atalanta.

This is also helping atalanta to have same results as liverpool. Things are not going easy for liverpool considering the fact that if it's also in the bad position on PL. Unexpecting things to happen when liverpool's situation has been changing a lot and this brings new questions regarding how good the liverpool is.
I think that people are always over reacted with the short term good performance by liverpool. They are all bottling the chance to get the trophy again.

Liverpool has won carabao cup and it will not end as a trophyless team for sure.

There is only 1 club left now for EPL clubs who are still competing in the biggest title and even then only in the Conference League where Aston Villa managed to qualify for the semi-finals.
Even though the EPL is quite favored but this season it seems that the bigger title is not a good season for EPL clubs after previously in the Chmapions League 2 EPL clubs were eliminated and today in the Europa League 2 other clubs are also the same fate as Arsenal and Liverpool yesterday.
Interesting now are clubs from the Bundesliga where in the Champions League there are still 2 representatives and in the Europa League of course Leverkusen who still have a record without losing where today's match even in the last minute they managed to keep their record to remain without defeat throughout this season.
In addition, if you look at the current conditions where there are 2 Serie A clubs in the Europa League, it seems that one of them is a finalist and I have a feeling that Atalanta will get that position.
Although the opponent is Benfica but their impressive and defensive strategy is quite stable for this competition.

Again, this was surprising, Liverpool managed to qualify after getting a draw against West Ham while Liverpool lost 3-1 on aggregate to Atalanta so it was official again that the club from the EPL was eliminated and did not make it to the semifinals. 

i predict that the match between Atalanta vs Marseille will be tight, Atalanta who managed to beat Liverpool is not a team that gives up easily, meanwhile for Leverkusen vs Roma, it will also be a great match, Alonso's success is in sight.

Exactly, even though Klopp made that statemen after the loss in the fist leg, that they would be able to do epic comeback. I personally doubted it. for, it's 3 goals. It's surely, difficult to pass, moreover it's in Atalanta stadium. Only a few clubs are capable of making an epic comeback of up to 4 goals, and Liverpool is not capable at the moment. not only because their opponents strengthened their defense, but also because Liverpool's attacks were less sharp. So, it's time for Liverpool to return to focusing on their rivals in the EPL, namely Arsenal and Man City, who were also eliminated from the UCL.

It's again. Xabi really could make certain surprise to anyone. But early, most people also wouldn't see Leverkusen to lose the game, at least, being drawn. And this strengthens the unbeaten record of Leverkusen.

The enxt big game will be in the semi-final between AS Roma vs Leverkusen, this will be tough enough. But, I do think that Leverkusen will also pass this semi-final. I really hoped that Leverkusen will be at final with Roma, but it'll be at semi-final.


Source: Roma vs. Bayer Leverkusen
We will see how these two phenomenal coaches will make their team qualify or not for the final round of the Europe League. Honestly, both of them have been really great coaches this season. Xabi with his Leverkusen achievements. Dan de Rossi with his achievements and rise with Roma.

Liverpool managed to beat Atalanta away from home but unfortunately couldn't get through the round as they lost 3-0 in the first leg.Although they scored an early penalty against Atalanta, they couldn't find enough goals to get through the round.They were in control of the match but I think we can say that they didn't put much effort to get through the round.
Marseille, on the other hand, ended their bad run with a win over Benfica.Marseille, who lost 2-1 to Benfica in the first match, won 1-0 in the second match and the match went into extra time.When the score did not change in extra time, they managed to eliminate their opponent on penalties.

This is definitely a heavy blow to the EPL who have at least four clubs battling the last four place and the fifth place was suppose to be a gift for them but right now it’s Ovey for them. Clubs like Manchester United and Newcastle were actually looking towards snatching that place off and qualifying to the Champions League. Not only that the last place in the club World Cup has been handed over to RB Salsburg after Arsenal who were deemed to fill the last place failed to make it to the last 4 of the champions league.

Bayer Leverkusen once again showed resilience to actually got a draw in the game to keep their unbeaten alive. As the clock was wining down I thought maybe it was going to be broken but as always Leverkusen find a way in the last minutes to create history

That's insane and I enjoyed following them this season a lot. This crazy mentality to not stop playing and pressing until the referee ends the game brought them so many wins in the last few minutes that what was supposedly luck ultimately turned into a reliable skill. The best part about it is that they play great football. It is not some overly strategic "score 1 goal and then defend" approach. It is pure power until the end.

But now their streak is really going through another test. Next games are against Dortmund in the Signal Iduna Park and Dortmund needs those points. Then against Stuttgart and then they can take revenge against Roma, followed by another away from home game against Frankfurt and then again against Roma.

If after all those games they are still unbeaten, I'd be speechless.

Now Italy and Germany will retain the first two places in the UEFA club rankings and will receive 5 tickets to the Champions League, while the Premier League will remain with 4. Few people believed that all English clubs would reach the finals, but probably even fewer believed that they would all be knocked out in two days.

Bayer broke Juventus' record and I think it will stand for many years, if not decades - 44 games without defeat is incredibly difficult to repeat at the level of the top 5 leagues in Europe.