Mohamed Salah scored one aim and arrange three to assist Liverpool demolish Sparta Prague 6-1 and march into the Europa League quarterfinals. After successful 5-1 the opening leg of their final 16 tie in Prague, Liverpool scored 4 within the opening 14 minutes at Anfield on Thursday to advance on an enormous 11-2 combination rating. Sparta had no reply to Liverpool’s excessive stress.
Salah seized the ball on the appropriate of the realm earlier than capturing contained in the far submit over Sparta goalkeeper Peter Vindahl for his twentieth aim of the season, turning into the primary Liverpool participant to attain no less than 20 objectives in seven straight seasons.
Salah, who injured his hamstring with Egypt on the Africa Cup of Nations in January, began after having been used as an alternative in each the primary leg in Prague and a 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Sunday.
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Darwin Nunez opened the rout with a scientific low end seven minutes into the sport after scoring two in Prague. A minute later, Salah received the ball on the sting of the field to feed 19-year-old Bobby Clark to attain his first senior aim for Liverpool to leap 2-0 up.
Salah then scored earlier than discovering Cody Gakpo with a cross to make it 4-0. Dominik Szoboszlai made it 5-1 within the second half with a deflected shot earlier than Gakpo added his second.
Veljko Birmancevic had the lone aim for Sparta.
In Germany, Patrik Schick got here off the bench towards 10-man Qarabag to attain two objectives in stoppage time to finish Leverkusen’s 3-2 comeback win and safe a quarterfinal spot for the Bundesliga chief. In a dramatic second half, Abdellah Zoubir and Juninho gave the guests a 2-0 benefit earlier than Jeremie Frimpong began the comeback.
Leverkusen made the quarters 5-4 on combination to increase its unbeaten streak to 37 video games throughout all competitions this season — a German document.
Qarabag’s Elvin Jafarguliyev obtained a purple card within the 62nd when his group was main 1-0.
AC Milan cruised previous 10-man Slavia Prague 3-1 to succeed in the quarterfinals. Milan superior 7-3 on combination after successful the primary leg of the final 16 tie 4-2 at San Siro per week in the past.
The seven-time European champion has by no means received the second-tier Europa League or its predecessor, the UEFA Cup. The competitors offers the Italian powerhouse its solely practical probability to win a trophy this season after it was eradicated from the Italian Cup and at the moment trails Serie A frontrunner Inter Milan by 16 factors.
Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Rafael Leão put the outcome within the second leg past doubt with first-half objectives in Prague.
Pulisic netted from 10 meters with a low shot to open the scoring within the thirty third minute and Loftus-Cheek tapped within the second into an empty web off a exact cross from Theo
Hernández earlier than Leão curled a right-footed drive from exterior the realm into the highest proper nook in first-half stoppage time. Slavia bought a comfort aim from substitute Matej Jurásek.
Pulisic now has 11 objectives in 38 appearances throughout all competitions within the US worldwide’s first marketing campaign with the Rossoneri to match his best season — the 2019-20 marketing campaign at Chelsea. Slavia’s early stress misplaced steam after captain Tomáš Holeš obtained a straight purple card within the twentieth minute for fouling his counterpart Davide Calabria.
Milan first-choice goalkeeper Mike Maignan was injured early and was changed by Marco Sportiello.
West Ham made the final eight by routing Freiburg 5-0 at London Stadium.
