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  • Champions League semi-finals: Liverpool v Roma, Bayern Munich v Real Madrid

    Liverpool will play Roma in the Champions League semi-finals, with Bayern Munich facing Real Madrid.

    The Reds, who beat Manchester City 5-1 on aggregate in the last round, will host Roma on Tuesday, 24 April with the return leg on Wednesday, 2 May.

    Arsenal will face Atletico Madrid in the Europa League semi-finals, while Red Bull Salzburg meet Marseille.

    The Gunners will play the first leg at home on Thursday, 26 April, with the second leg a week later on 3 May.

    The Europa League final will be in Lyon, France on Wednesday, 16 May, with the winner guaranteed a place in next season’s Champions League.

    The Champions League final will be held in Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday, 26 May.

    Liverpool, Champions League winners in 2005, have not faced Roma in a competitive match since March 2002.

    The Reds’ top scorer Mohamed Salah will face the club he left for £34m in the summer.

    Roma are fourth in Serie A – 21 points behind leaders Juventus.

    They staged a remarkable comeback to beat Barcelona 3-0 on Wednesday and win their quarter-final on away goals after a 4-4 aggregate draw.

    “If anybody thinks this is the easiest draw then I cannot help this person,” said Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.

    “They obviously didn’t see both games against Barcelona. In the first result, 4-1 was not how the game was – it was Lionel Messi genius against a good side of Roma.

    “The second leg was outstanding, it was outstanding what they did. They should have probably won 4-0 or 5-0 – I was really impressed.

    “It is just the draw and I know it is very exciting, but it is good because the most important news is we are still in the competition.”

     

    Source: BBC

  • Roma wins! Barcelona knocked out of UEFA Champions League

    It was nothing short of a shock on Tuesday night when Barcelona were knocked out of the Uefa Champions League by AS Roma.

    The Catalan club had arrived the Italian capital with a three-goal lead after winning the first leg 4-1 but that away goal told.

    Edin Dzeko’s goal in the first half was doubled by a De Rossi penalty in the second half. The Italian team, smelling blood, did not, however, lose its defensive shape but bid its time.

    It was rewarded with a third and qualification-assuring goal in the 82nd minute off a header by Mostas Manolas.

    They become the third team in Champions League history to overturn a three-goal deficit.

    It was a night of upsets as at the same time in England, Liverpool came from behind to beat Manchester City 2-1 (agg 5-1) to qualify for the semi-final.

  • Lazio hit six, Icardi grabs brace, Roma play draw in Serie A

    Inter Milan captain Mauro Icardi scored twice in a 3-0 win over Verona on Saturday in a Serie A fixture.

    In another fixture, Lazio blasted five goals in the last half-hour to thrash 10-man Benevento 6-2 and Champions League quarter-finalists AS Roma drew 1-1 at Bologna.

    Relegation-threatened SPAL hit back to draw 1-1 at Genoa with 10 men after being on the wrong end of a contentious penalty and sending-off decision made with the use of the video assistant referee (VAR).

    Icardi, left out of the Argentina squad for this month’s friendlies — which included a 6-1 defeat in Spain — took his tally to 24 while Perisic was also on target for fourth-placed Inter.

    Table-propping Benevento had goalkeeper Christian Puggioni sent off after nine minutes at Lazio for handling outside the area and fell behind to a Ciro Immobile goal.

    Astonishingly, the visitors hit back to lead 2-1 with goals by Danilo Cataldi and Guilherme but Lazio ran riot in the last half-hour, their goals including a second for Immobile, who took his tally to 26.

    Edin Dzeko came off the bench to equalise for third-placed Roma, who visit Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, after Erick Pulgar had given Bologna a first-half lead.

    Gianluca Lapadula missed an early penalty for Genoa against SPAL but was given a second chance after Francesco Vicari was controversially judged to have fouled him.

    Vicari appeared to make no contact, but after a four-minute VAR consultation, the referee pointed to the spot and sent off the SPAL player.

    Lapadula converted but SPAL hit back with a Manuel Lazzarri goal on the hour.

    Udinese slumped to their sixth successive Serie A defeat when they lost 2-0 at Atalanta, Fiorentina beat Crotone 2-0 and Torino won 4-0 at Cagliari, with all their goals coming in the last half-hour.

  • Dzeko goal sends Roma into Champions League quarter-fianls

    Edin Dzeko’s strike ensured Roma reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2008 with victory over Shakhtar Donetsk.

    The former Manchester City forward latched on to Kevin Strootman’s through ball before poking the ball between Andriy Pyatov’s legs for the only goal.

    The Italians, who lost the first leg 2-1, went through on away goals.

    Ukrainians Shakhtar had Ivan Ordets sent off after he pulled Dzeko down by the shirt.

    Shakhtar were unlucky not to get an away goal of their own early on when Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi almost headed an in-swinging free-kick into his own net with a glancing clearance.

    But Roma quickly started to find their rhythm and Shakhtar goalkeeper Pyatov had to react quickly to a low Aleksandar Kolorov cross, palming the ball away from the path of the incoming Dzeko.

    A mistake from Federico Fazio saw Facundo Ferreyra go clear on goal, but the Argentine defender was able to recover in time to put his opponent off – his shot going well wide of Alisson Becker’s post.

    Just a minute later, Shakhtar broke from a Roma corner, with Florenzi forced into a perfectly timed clearing tackle on Ismaily inside the area.

    Roma finally broke the deadlock after the break, with Bosnian Dzeko beating the offside trap to score past Pyatov.

    He could have had a second just after the hour mark when he curled in an effort from outside the area but it sailed inches wide of the top left-hand corner.

    Ordets was shown a red card for tugging on Dzeko’s shirt, before a scuffle broke out on the pitch after two Shakhtar players pushed a ballboy over the advertising boards for holding on to the ball.

     

    BBC

  • Conte disclose, Chelsea are going for every trophy ahead of Roma game

    Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says the club are going for the lot this season.

     

    Conte insists there’s no chance of him favouring one competition over another.

     

    Chelsea are in Italy tonight for the Champions League clash with Roma.

     

    “Our group is a tough group with Atletico Madrid and Roma, two really group teams. To stay at the top of this group is really important,” said Conte.

     

    “We are trying to face all competitions this season. We went through to the next round of the Carabao Cup, we won the last two games in the Premier League.

     

    “Roma are in a good moment of form. It’s important for us to overcome this difficult period. We are recovering important players. You know how important it is for me to have all the players available.”