After a year of being eliminated in the semifinals of the last edition of the UEFA Europa League, Bayer Leverkusen will once again face Roma, their executioner, in the same round of the same tournament.
Therefore, The Germans led by Xabi Alonso and who have accumulated 46 unbeaten games in all competitions, arrive with a thirst for revenge by visiting “la Loba” in the first leg of the semifinals of this tournament.
“We were so close to the final last season and we didn’t like how we came out,” said Leverkusen defender Jonathan Tah. “The truth is that I wanted to measure ourselves against them again.”
Last May, Roma beat Leverkusen 1-0 at the Olympic Stadium in the first leg and then drew goalless in Leverkusen. The defeat in the Italian capital was Leverkusen’s last in Europe, and the penultimate setback in all their competitions.
In the other semi-final of this tournament, Olympique de Marseille hosts Atalanta at the Velodrome. The visiting team, after its resounding elimination of Liverpool, has yet to lift a trophy in its benign modern era, led by coach Gian Piero Gasperini, and the Europa League represents one of two opportunities to achieve this, since they will also play in the final of the Italian Cup against Juventus on May 15.
The French club, for its part, aims for its first European title since 1993.
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