On Thursday, English side Liverpool defeated their Austrian hosts, LASK, to win the first round of the fifth group matches in the competition with a score of 3-1. Europe League For football.

A competition the Reds don’t want to take part in, especially after regaining their place among the leaders of the old continent, having participated in its most important competition, the Champions League, for the past six seasons, winning the title in 2019. For the first time since 2005 and the sixth time in its history, the lead was a surprise for the home team.

Lask scored in the 14th minute through Florian Flicker, who fired a powerful shot past Ireland goalkeeper Caomin Kelleher from outside the penalty area.

Red is the second half

Although Liverpool looked helpless in the first half, the mood was different in the second half, with the Reds equalizing in the fifty-sixth minute from a penalty kick awarded by the match referee and successfully converted by Uruguay’s Darwin Nunez.

Seven minutes later, Colombian Luis Diaz scored the first goal for the English club after converting a beautiful cross from Dutchman Rein Grabenberg (63).

Egypt star Mohamed Salah, a 74th-minute substitute, received a pass from Nunez inside the penalty area and dribbled past two defenders before slotting the ball between the legs of goalkeeper Tobias Lawal. Target (88).

In another game in the same group, French side Toulouse drew 1-1 with Belgium’s Union Saint-Jelois.

Tough win for Roma

Inside the Group Seven matches, last season’s runners-up of the competition, Italian Roma, bounced back with a valuable win away to Moldova.

Roma played with high morale following a huge win for Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho’s side with seven clean sheets, including Belgian Romelu Lukaku’s first in the league against Empoli on Sunday. capital club, so he returned and scored the winning goal in the 65th minute in his first continental match with his new club.

Lukaku (30), who is on loan from Chelsea, scored his 16th goal in his last 12 games in the continental competition, having made his scoring debut in November 2014 while defending the colors of English side Everton. , against Wolfsburg in Germany when he scored in a 2–0 win.

Roma, runners-up to Sevilla in the Spanish competition last season, went ahead thanks to friendly fire after Cameroonian Kabi Kiki turned the ball into his team’s goal (45+4), before Sheriff Draspol equalized through the Colombian early in the second half. Christian Dover (57).

In the same group, Czech Republic’s Slavia Prague defeated Switzerland’s Servette 2-0 with goals from Lukasz Mazobust (32) and Nigeria’s Eko Ogbo (59).

France 24/AFP