"Europe League" .. A great team bid farewell to Barcelona "impressive"

The Spanish clubs Barcelona and Seville, Italy's Atalanta, Portugal's Porto and Germany's Leipzig continued their continental campaign by reaching the final price of the European League "Europa League" in football after their disappointing exit from the Champions League competition.

The five teams ranked third in their groups in the prestigious continental competition and had to enter the qualifying play-off to the final price of the "Europe League" competition and succeeded in the test to continue their continental career, while Germany's Borussia Dortmund, Zenit St. Petersburg and Moldavian Sheriff Tiraspol failed to catch up with them by being eliminated by Rangers The Scotsman, Real Betis, and Braga, the Portuguese, respectively.

The eight qualifying clubs joined the eight groups leaders, namely Lyon and Monaco of France, Spartak Moscow of Russia, Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen of Germany, Galatasaray of Turkey, Red Star of Serbia and West Ham of England.

The lottery will be drawn on Friday at the European Union headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Barcelona defeats Napoli

Barcelona booked his card after he settled his summit with its host Napoli in his favour, with a great result 4-2 at the "Diego Armando Maradona" stadium.

Barcelona compensated for the great opportunities that were missed by its attackers in the first leg, which ended in a 1-1 draw, especially in its second half, and shook the club's southern net four times, including three in the first half.

The Catalan club kept its hopes in the only competition left for it to save its season after leaving empty-handed from the local cup and European Champions League competitions and 15 points away from its traditional rival Real Madrid, the La Liga leader.

Barcelona scored two quick goals through defender Jordi Alba (9) and Dutch international midfielder Frenkie de Jong (13), and captain Lorenzo Insigne reduced the difference with a penalty kick (23), before Gerard Pique (45) and Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (59) added the two goals. third and fourth.

Napoli did not benefit from his second goal for substitute Matteo Politano (87).

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said, "We're on the right track, getting better at playing. The collective goals we score like the fourth, is what we're looking for. We have to know how to take advantage of possession, with players who are able to play in the spaces. That's it. The model of play that we have to impose, take advantage of the spaces, and play in the middle of the opponent's court."

"I'm very happy, the players really deserved this win, because they suffered a lot, we reached the final price and we have a lot of hopes even if we have to stay humble. We want to win, but we have to be careful. Tonight, we controlled 90 minutes, it's the first time that It's been happening to me since I took over the team coach."

Porto qualifies at the expense of Lazio

Porto qualified by drawing with its Italian host Lazio 2-2 after winning 2-1 at home in the first leg, and Atalanta by renewing its victory over its Greek host Olympiacos 3-0, after winning 2-1 at home in the first leg, while Sevilla booked his card despite losing against its host Dinamo Zagreb. The Croatian 0-1 for winning the first leg 3-1, and Leipzig by beating its Spanish host Real Sociedad 3-1 (2-2 in the first leg).

In the first match, Lazio was the first to score through its international captain Ciro Immobile (19), but Porto got a penalty kick that Iranian international Mahdi Taremi grabbed and tied it himself (31), and Colombian Mateos Uribe gave him the lead (68), before Danilo realized Cataldi tie (90+5).

In the second, the Ukrainian international midfielder Ruslan Malinovsky imposed himself as a star by scoring the second and third goals (67 and 69), after his Danish international colleague Joachim Mihli opened (40).

In the third, Sevilla lost to its host Dinamo Zagreb with a single goal scored by Mislav Orsic (65 penalty kick) without costing him to bid farewell to his favorite competition, which holds the record for the number of titles in the competition (6 times) for winning 3-1 in the first leg.

In Sociedad, Leipzig advanced with two goals by Hungarian Willy Orban (39) and Portuguese Bernardo Silva (59).

Martin Sebemendi revived Sociedad's hopes by reducing the difference (67), but the Swedish international Emil Forsberg eliminated it by scoring the third goal for the visitors (89 from a penalty kick).

Real Betis booked his ticket with a goalless draw with his guest Zenit St. Petersburg, after the first leg was decided in his favour, 3-2.

Dortmund exit

On the other hand, Borussia Dortmund failed to turn the table on its Scottish host Rangers, who inflicted a humiliating loss on the "Signal Iduna Park" stadium 2-4 in the first leg, and was satisfied with a 2-2 draw back in Glasgow to leave empty-handed from the second continental competition after his disappointment in the first The Champions League came third behind Ajax Amsterdam and Sporting Portugal.

Dortmund played the match in the absence of its international striker, Erling Haaland, because he was not in the air after recently recovering from a muscle injury.

And Rangers first scored through the English James Travernier from a penalty kick (22), but Dortmund responded with two goals to his last promising compatriot Judd Bellingham (31) and Dutchman Donel Malin (42).

Travineer equalized for the hosts, taking advantage of a cross by Nigerian Calvin Bassi, the failure of veteran defense magnate Mats Hummels to clear it, so the Englishman followed it from close range into the goal (57).

Sporting Braga ended the adventure of Sheriff Tiraspol by defeating him 3-2 on penalties after the end of the regular and extra time, with the Portuguese club winning 2-0, which is the result of the first leg in favor of the Moldavian team.

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