On Thursday, English Liverpool defeated its Austrian host, LASK, to win 3-1 in the first round of the fifth group competitions in the competition. Europe League for football .
In a competition that the Reds do not want to be in, especially after it regained its position among the old continent’s leaders and participated in its most important competition, the Champions League, in the past six seasons, and even won the title in 2019 for the first time since 2005 and the sixth in its history, the lead was surprising for the home team.
LASK opened the scoring in the 14th minute through Florian Flicker, who fired a powerful shot from outside the penalty area that went past Irish goalkeeper Caiomin Kelleher.
Red second half
While Liverpool seemed helpless in the first half, the mentality was different in the second half, as the Reds equalized in the fifty-sixth minute from a penalty kick awarded by the match referee and successfully translated by Uruguayan Darwin Nunez.
Seven minutes later, Colombian Luis Dias scored the first goal for the English club after converting a beautiful cross from Dutchman Rein Gravenberg (63).
Egyptian star Mohamed Salah completed the hat-trick after coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute, when inside the penalty area he received a pass from Nunez, dribbled past two defenders before passing the ball between the feet of goalkeeper Tobias Laval and into the goal (88).
In another match in the same group, French Toulouse tied with Belgian Union Saint-Geloise 1-1.
A difficult win for Roma
Within the Group Seven competitions, Italian Roma, the runner-up of the competition last season, returned with a valuable victory from Moldova at the expense of its host Sherif Tiraspol 2-1.
Roma played the match with very high morale, as a result of the sweeping victory achieved by Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho’s team on Sunday in the league over Empoli with a score of seven clean goals, including a first goal by Belgian Romelu Lukaku in the colors of the capital club, so he returned and scored the winning goal in his first continental match with his new club in the 65th minute.
Lukaku (30 years old), who is playing on loan from Chelsea, scored his 16th goal in his last 12 matches in the continental competition, noting that he began his scoring streak in November 2014 when he was defending the colors of the English team Everton, when he scored against Wolfsburg in Germany in the match. Winning 2-0.
Roma, which finished runner-up last season to the Spanish competition’s Sevilla, advanced thanks to friendly fire after Cameroonian Gaby Kiki diverted the ball into his team’s goal (45+4), before Sherif Tiraspol equalized at the start of the second half through Colombian Cristian Tovar (57). .
Within the same group, Slavia Prague of the Czech Republic defeated its host, Servette of Switzerland, 2-0, scored by Lucas Masopust (32) and Nigerian Ego Ogbo (59).
France 24/AFP
2023-09-21 20:43:33
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