Italy – Milan defeated its guest, Slavia Prague, 4-2, while Bayer Leverkusen avoided its first defeat of the season by snatching a 2-2 draw with its host, Karabakh, Azerbaijan, in the first leg of the Europa League semi-final yesterday, Thursday.
In the first match, Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for Milan in the 34th minute, and Slavia Prague quickly equalized two minutes later through David Dodera.
Milan returned and scored the lead goal again through Tijani Rejnders in the 44th minute, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek increased Milan’s lead two minutes later.
In the second half, Ivan Skrans reduced the score for Slavia Prague in the 65th minute, before Christian Pulisic completed the quadruple for the “Rossoneri” in the 85th minute.
In the second match in Azerbaijan, it seemed that the series of consecutive matches that Leverkusen played this season without defeat would stop at 34 in all competitions, but Czech substitute Patrik Cech saved the situation by equalizing 2-2 in stoppage time.
After being a candidate on paper to easily surpass its host, Karabakh, Leverkusen suffered both things, and the team of Spanish coach Xabi Alonso ended the first half trailing by two clean goals. Their hero was Brazilian Juninho dos Santos, who passed the ball to open the scoring to Algerian Yacine Benzia (26), before consolidating the score after launching a counterattack from Approximately the middle of the field (2 + 45).
Leverkusen returned to the atmosphere of the match thanks to substitute Florian Wirtz, who reduced the difference in the 70th minute with a beautiful goal after he shot the ball “falling” over the goalkeeper, before Cech, who entered in the 80th minute, had his say by equalizing with a header (2 + 90).
Source: Agencies
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2024-05-08 22:48:42
