The Europa League quarter-finals: Mac Allister’s Liverpool collapse and Di María’s goal for Benfica

It was an albiceleste day in the Europa League quarter-finals. Angelo Di Maria scored in the victory of Benfica like a place in front of the Marseille Olympic; Alexis MacAllister suffered the collapse of Liverpool against Atalanta at Anfield (0-3); Paolo Dybala AND Leandro Paredes They celebrated as a visitor with the Romewhich he defeated Milan; AND Exequiel Palacios lengthened the positive path alongside the Bayer Leverkusenwho won 2-0 against West Ham.

‘Fideo’ scored the second goal for his team in Lisbon, who won 2-1 and thus took an important lead towards the goal of qualifying for the semi-finals of the continental competition.

Seven minutes of the second half and they were ahead Roger Schmidt They won thanks to the Brazilian’s goal Davide Neres at 16′ of the first half. At the moment, little angel He received the ball in the center of the field and launched a counterattack at full speed. He arrived at the edge of the area with the ball dominated, played a short pass on the right to Neres and went to look for the return, which found him with all the freedom to define.

Then, Gabon’s Pierre Emerick Aubameyang scored for the French and put the series on hold, which will be decided next Thursday in Marseille.

The winner of this key will meet Atalanta or Liverpool, who staged one of the surprises of the week in Europe: the Italians beat Alexis Mac Allister’s team, leaders of the Premier League, 3-0 at Anfield.