Three-time winners Liverpool have been drawn against Atalanta in the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
Liverpool booked their place in the last eight with an 11-2 aggregate victory over Sparta Prague, with Jurgen Klopp’s side claiming an emphatic 6-1 win at Anfield yesterday evening.
Atalanta earned qualification with a 3-2 aggregate triumph against Sporting, with the Bergamo outfit winning the second leg 2-1 on home soil thanks to second-half strikes from Ademola Lookman and Gianluca Scamacca.
West Ham are the other Premier League side left in the Europa League, and the 2021–22 semi-finalists will lock horns with Bundesliga high-flyers Bayer Leverkusen, who are on a 37-game unbeaten run across all competitions.
West Ham secured passage to the quarterfinals with a 5-0 thrashing of Freiburg at the London Stadium after losing the first leg in Germany 1-0.
As for Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen, they booked their spot in dramatic fashion as two stoppage-time goals from Patrik Schick completed a second-leg comeback against Qarabag from 2-0 down and secured a 5-4 win on aggregate.
And there is also a mouth-watering all-Italian Europa League clash as AC Milan and Roma do battle for a place in the semis, with the Serie A giants easing past Slavia Prague and Brighton in their respective last-16 ties.
