The Liverpool team, the most prominent candidate to win the European League title “Europa League”, suffered a harsh loss at home and among its fans in the European League against Italian club Atalanta, with a score of 3-0 in the first leg of the quarter-finals, in a match that witnessed the brilliance of Atalanta striker Gianluca Scamacca by scoring two goals (38). 61) and Croatian Mario Bazalic III added (83).
Bergamo club inflicted Liverpool’s first loss at home since February 21, 2023, when they fell to Spanish club Real Madrid in the Champions League 2-5.
It seems that German coach Jurgen Klopp did not give enough importance to the match and expected that he would be able to win without his most prominent players, so he left the team’s top scorer, Mohamed Salah, on the bench. The match also witnessed a bad situation for all the players of the team, which became in great danger of bidding farewell to the tournament in the return match in Italy.
The two teams will meet again next Thursday in Italy to play the return match and decide qualification for the semi-finals, which has become very close to the Italian team, as Liverpool now needs to win by four goals in order to guarantee qualification.
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