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Bayer Leverkusen’s Spanish head coach Xabi Alonso (C) celebrates after the UEFA Europa League semi final second leg football match between Bayer Leverkusen and ASC Roma in Leverkusen, on May 9, 2024. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
Xabi Alonso's rampaging Bayer Leverkusen will have an additional incentive in Thursday's home second-leg Europa League semi-final against Roma: breaking a 59-year-old European football record. Avoiding defeat against Roma on Thursday will not only mean a trip to Dublin for the Europa League final, it will also extend their unbeaten run to 49 games -- the best mark in European football history. A Eusebio-inspired Benfica went on a 48-game unbeaten streak between 1963 and 1965. The record has stood since, but Leverkusen have a golden chance of blowing it out of the water.
Bayer Leverkusen have one foot in the Europa League final after winning 2-0 at Roma on Thursday to extend their remarkable unbeaten run to 47 matches. Goals in each half from Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich ensured victory for Xabi Alonso's men in the Italian capital and gave the Bundesliga champions a great chance of reaching the final in Dublin later this month. Leverkusen will meet either Atalanta or Marseille in Ireland should they hold out in Germany next week, and on the evidence of their performance in Rome they will be firm favourites to win their first European trophy since the old UEFA Cup in 1988.
Goals by Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich gave Bayer Leverkusen a 2-0 advantage over Roma in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday.
Bayer Leverkusen are gunning for revenge on Thursday when they travel to a second Europa League semi-final against Roma in as many years after yet another late escape kept their remarkable unbeaten run intact. Xabi Alonso's Leverkusen staff were filmed celebrating Roma's passage past AC Milan in the last eight, and Thursday's first leg at the Stadio Olimpico is a chance to purge the memory of being 'Mourinhoed' in last season's last four. Already a formidable proposition last term, Leverkusen's astonishing run of 46 matches without defeat and a first-ever Bundesliga title has them favourites to reach the final in Dublin.
Inter Milan's official Serie A title party was in full swing on Sunday as the newly-crowned champions were acclaimed by thousands throughout their city after a straightforward 2-0 win over 10-man Torino. Simone Inzaghi's team cruised on an open-top bus tour of Milan towards the northern Italian city's iconic, and packed, Piazza del Duomo where fans lit flares and set off fireworks in honour of their heroes who had claimed a 20th league championship with five matches to spare.
Newly-crowned Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen reached the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday and stretched their undefeated run in all competitions this season to 44 matches. The German side drew 1-1 at West Ham in the second leg of their quarter-final tie and went through 3-1 on aggregate. Michail Antonio put West Ham ahead on 13 minutes before Jeremie Frimpong levelled in the 89th minute for Xabi Alonso's side. Leverkusen will face Roma for a place in the final.
Roma held off AC Milan to advance to the semi-finals of the Europa League on Thursday night.