Liverpool’s Wataru Endo with supervisor Jurgen Klopp after being substituted.
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Gianluca Scamacca struck twice as visiting Atalanta upset Liverpool 3-0 in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals on Thursday.
The loss damages Liverpool’s hopes of a treble of trophies in supervisor Jurgen Klopp’s last season at Anfield.
The Italian guests went into the break up 1-0 after Scamacca obtained a low drive previous goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher in the thirty eighth minute.
Klopp despatched on Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Andy Robertson as substitutes for the second half, however Scamacca netted once more after Charles De Ketelaere fed him at the far publish on the hour mark.
Mario Pašalić completed the scoring seven minutes from time.
Atalanta received at Anfield 2-0 in the group stage of the Champions League in 2020.
Liverpool received the English League Cup and is in a good Premier League title race with Arsenal and Manchester City. Klopp’s crew was eradicated from the FA Cup in the quarterfinals.
The lackluster show Thursday would possibly transform Klopp’s last European sport at Anfield. The crew wants a giant comeback in Bergamo to remain alive.
If Liverpool reaches the Europa League last in Dublin on May 22, it could be Klopp’s last sport in cost after almost 9 years.
Bayer Leverkusen obtained late objectives from substitutes Jonas Hofmann and Victor Boniface to high West Ham 2-0 and prolong its unbeaten streak to 42 video games in a season that may additionally find yourself with a treble of trophies.
Hofmann netted on a rebound in the 83rd earlier than Boniface clinched a well-deserved victory with a header in stoppage time.
With a 16-point lead atop the Bundesliga, Xabi Alonso’s crew is on target to clinch its first-ever league title and has reached the German Cup last.
In an all-Italian matchup, Gianluca Mancini headed in a winner off a nook kick from Paulo Dybala to upset AC Milan 1-0 at San Siro.
Mancini additionally scored the lone purpose in the Italian capital derby in opposition to Lazio on Saturday in Serie A.
It was the first win for Roma over Milan since October 2019.
Milan, the seven-time European champion, has by no means received the second-tier Europa League or its predecessor, the UEFA Cup.
Milan has by no means even reached the last — one thing Roma achieved twice, dropping each in 1991 and final 12 months.
Rafa Silva and veteran ahead Ángel Di María scored in every half for Benfica to beat Marseille 2-1. In an encounter of two former European champions. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang pulled one again for Marseille, which misplaced its fifth straight sport in all competitions.
Aubameyang has 24 objectives this season in whole.
The second-leg video games shall be performed subsequent week.
EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE
Kostas Fortounis scored and offered an help to assist Olympiakos beat Fenerbahce 3-2 in the first leg of the Europa Conference League quarterfinals on Thursday.
Olympiakos constructed a 3-0 lead in Piraeus and held on after the Turkish crew fought again with two second-half objectives.
Fortounis opened the scoring after simply eight minutes, netting his fifth purpose of the European marketing campaign. He then arrange Stevan Jovetić to double the lead earlier than halftime.
Chiquinho made it 3-0 with a exact low drive approaching the hour mark earlier than Dušan Tadić pulled one again from the penalty spot and İrfan Can Kahveci added the second for Fenerbahce.
Olympiakos is one in every of the two Greek groups in the final eight hoping to achieve a house last in Athens.
The different, PAOK, misplaced 1-0 at Club Brugge.
Ollie Watkins and captain John McGinn scored early in every half to safe a 2-1 win for Aston Villa over Lille for supervisor Unai Emery, who claimed the Europa League on 4 events — 3 times with Sevilla and as soon as with Villarreal.
Viktoria Plzeň held final 12 months’s runner-up Fiorentina to a 0-0 draw in what was the first European quarterfinal for the Czech membership, which hasn’t conceded a purpose for seven straight video games in the third-tier competitors.
As Fiorentina regarded in management in the second half, the match was interrupted for a number of minutes due to flares that its followers threw onto the pitch.
