Roma Defeats AC Milan and Liverpool to Face Atalanta in Europa League Quarterfinal
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Trending – A week after hosting Atalanta at Anfield on April 11, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool—still vying for a quadruple this season—will travel to Italy to play the return match.
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The Reds will be favorites to defeat Atalanta, who are currently sixth in Serie A after they crushed Sparta Prague 11-2 on aggregate in the last 16.
In the 2020–2021 Champions League group stage match:
Liverpool defeated Atalanta 2-0
Anfield and Liverpool 5-0 away in Bergamo.
Under former Liverpool midfielder Alonso, who is among the top candidates to succeed Klopp as manager at Anfield when the German steps down at the end of the season, Leverkusen are having an incredible season.
Leverkusen, the 1988 winners of the UEFA Cup, and the forerunner of the Europa League, are 10 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with nine games remaining in the season. They have not lost a game.
On Thursday, they were behind 2-1 in injury time against Qarabag at home before mounting an incredible comeback to win 3-2 against the Azerbaijani team, bringing their unbeaten streak very close to an end.
They were able to win their round of 16 match 5-4 overall thanks to that.
West Ham United, the winners of the Europa Conference League the previous season, will play Leverkusen in the quarterfinals. The English team defeated Freiburg, another German team, in the previous round.
The victor of that match will go on to play in a semi-final match against Roma or AC Milan, an all-Italian last-eight match.
Marseille and Benfica, two previous European champions, square off in the other quarterfinal.
Europa League Quarter-finals
| Bayer Leverkusen (GER) | West Ham United (ENG) |
| Benfica (POR) | Marseille (FRA) |
The first legs are to be played on April 11, the second legs on April 18
Semi-finals
| Benfica or Marseille | Liverpool or Atalanta |
| Liverpool or Atalanta | Bayer Leverkusen or West Ham United |
The first legs are to be played on May 2, the second legs on May 9
