Five games were played tonight (Thursday) in the eighth finals of the Europa League, when at the center of Barcelona they hosted the Turkish Glatsray and parted ways with a disappointing 0-0. At the same time, Atalanta maintained an amazing home record in a wonderful 2: 3 over Leverkusen, and earlier Sevilla beat West Ham 0-1 at home and achieved an advance towards the rematch next week.
Barcelona – Glatsray 0: 0
The Blaugrana were in the midst of a wonderful momentum with four wins in all competitions, but today their own player, goalkeeper Iniaki Fanya who was loaned to Glatsray, is the one who stopped Xavi and his team. Her 22-year-old face, who arrived in Barcelona as a child, went through all the youth departments and was loaned to Turkey this season to gain significant minutes and develop, provided a number of spectacular saves to keep the Barcelona stars from conquering, with Frankie de Jong also missing and big when he kicked a beam from the five-yard box. Memphis Depay opened in Xavi’s squad for the first time in three months and he also failed to subdue her face, who next week in Istanbul will again hope to keep a clean sheet and possibly oust the Catalans from the factory.
the progress of the game
26 min: Almost a Memphis advantage goal. The Dutchman kicked a free-kick from an excellent position from a distance of about 20 meters, bypassed the wall and the ball made its way to the goal, but 22-year-old goalkeeper Iniaki Fania, who arrived at Barcelona’s youth department in 2012 and was loaned from Catalonia to Glatsray, flew superbly and took the ball off the net. .
36 min: Glattsray’s dangerous first chance, but Eric Garcia in an excellent closing prevented Aktorkoglou from scoring. The Turkish striker easily overtook Dest, entered the field and set up a good chance against Ter Stegen, the brake slipped at the last minute and the ball that hit his foot went over the goal.
41 min: Memphis cut to the center from the left and tried to score with a twisting kick to the far corner, facing the corner.
46: Xavi made three substitutions at the break and Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique and Osman Dembala came on for Nico, Ronald Araujo and Fran Torres.
55 min: Memphis kicked and braked, the ball reached Dembele who was also from an extension kicked and braked. The Catalans are increasing the pressure.
Minute 56: Keren on the right found Busquets free in the box, the knot hit well and he also saw her face fly away and bounce.
61 min: Obmiang will score today too? The striker came in instead of Memphis.
72 minutes: Dembele tried his strength with a powerful kick, but the ball went high above the goal.
Minute 75: The miss of the game. Traore forcibly entered the field, picked up Obmiang who went up to the hairdresser and unintentionally arranged for De Jong a situation he had to score from, but the Dutchman kicked to the beam from the five-yard box.
Sevilla – West Ham 0: 1
The European League winner has never lost to an English rival in the knockout stages of the Europa League, and she also successfully passed her first game against West Ham thanks to a single goal from Munir al-Hadadi, who in the 60th minute scored a great goal in a stationary position. Sevilla are in a bad period and it was a fourth victory in their last 11 games in all competitions, and to their delight they did so with a lack of staff following injuries of several stars including Papu Gomes and Anthony Martial. West Ham, on the other hand, are also in a bad period and have seen a single victory in their last five games in the league and today they also had to make do without Jarod Bowen, their undisputed star this season, but he is expected to return to the squad next week.
Atlanta – Bayer Leverkusen 2: 3
Tonight’s crazy game in the Europa League. No one was surprised to see the two meet in the last eight of the Champions League, and they proved they definitely deserve more. One way or another, they met in the Europa League and provided a wonderful game. Atlanta have never lost a home game at the factory and even today, despite having to make do without striker Duban Spata and sick midfielder Josip Ilicic, they were also not intimidated by an early delay set by Charles Arangis after 11 minutes from Florian Wirtz’s cooking and in less than a quarter of an hour. : Ukrainian Ruslan Malinovsky scored in the 23rd minute from a Luis Muriel cooking, and two minutes later it was the tie that cooked for the Colombian striker and the turnaround was complete. Muriel also celebrated a double in the 49th minute, again from the cooking of the Ukrainian Malinowski, and in the 63rd minute Musa Diabi set 3: 2 and left the Germans in the picture for the rematch.
, But in terms of her current fitness, she counts three losses in five rounds in the Italian league. Coach Jan Piero Gasparini will have to make do without the injured Colombian striker Duban Spata, with Josip Ilicic also in doubt due to illness. On the other hand, Leverkusen squeezed an encouraging 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich away last Saturday, holding the second most prolific attack in Germany along with Dortmund and the third most prolific in the Europa League home stage. From her squad will be absent the distant Kerem Demirbai and the injured Patrick Schick and Karim Bellarby.
More games:
Braga – Monaco 0: 2
Rangers – Red Star Belgrade 0: 3