Qarabağ made a surprise by eliminating Braga in the previous round. Can Qarabağ make another surprise? Bayer Leverkusen earned a 2-2 draw in the Round of 16 first leg away to Qarabag. Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are on course for a first Bundesliga title, 10 points clear of Bayern Munich at the top of the table.
Roma, Liverpool, Milan, Freiburg and Marseille ultimately managed to win today's first leg. Leverkusen, who were the favorites, actually drew against Qarabag, as did Atalanta. Liverpool and Roma don't seem to have any trouble expecting a quarter-final after big wins in the first leg, Milan and Marseille are no different.
I was a little surprised about the result of the Leverkusen match, but Qarabag was probably just lucky to be able to end the match with a score of 2-2. Leverkusen played well and had many opportunities, but unfortunately Leverkusen could only score 2 goals from 4 shots on target. There is still a second leg that Xabi can maximize, it is a home match that I think Leverkusen will dominate.
Bayern Leverkusen will definitely win if I can remember currently I don't think they have had any lost this season, only draw and wins while the match against Qarabag are not the first match we were expecting a win for them only for them to draw but we can say in the second leg they will be victorious since winning is needed to move to the next stage
De Zerbi got destroyed by Roma.
Wasn't he supposed to be the new Guardiola
I can understand if De Zerbi could be destroyed by AS Roma.
The quality of his squad isn't as well as the AS Roma squad quality. And De Zerbi may use the wrong tactic in the match against AS Roma.
De Zerbi manages an average team like Brighton, it is different with Guardiola was managing a big team like Barcelona.
Anyway, I don't think De Zerbi needs to be the next Guardiola.
The fact that Brighton couldn't get a goal is dissappointing and we can't really call Brighton a small team base on stat in last 2 seasons, even if it was expected for Romans to win we were not expecting results like against Brighton.
Recap of European League Match Results Round of 16 Leg 1 of 2
Sporting CP 1 vs 1 Atalanta
AS Roma 4 vs 0 Brighton
Sparta Praha 1 vs 5 Liverpool
Qarabag 2 vs 2 Leverkusen
AC Milan 4 vs 2 Slavia Praha
Freiburg 1 vs 0 West Ham
Benfica 2 vs 2 Rangers
Marseille 4 vs 0 Villarreal
In my opinion, the most dramatic match was Qarabaq versus Leverkusen, where Xabi fleet almost suffered their first defeat of the day. However, before the match ended, they managed to equalize after being 2 goals behind in the first half.
Marseille, Iiverpool and As Romans have already qualified to the next round since they are leading with a goal difference of 4 against their respective opponents, Ac Milan ad less to worry about in comparison with the others. In the second leg west ham, bayern Leverkusen and benfica would be hoping to qualify for the next round though