With the departure of Messi and Ronaldo, the current La Liga is no longer as influential as the Premier League, which is recognized as the first league. However, this season, the Premier League has not progressed to the last four in the Champions League and Europa League, and the first league looks a bit unworthy of its name.
In the second leg of the Europa League knockout round, Liverpool travelled to Atalanta. With a 3-0 defeat at home in the first leg, Liverpool will have to score at least three goals if they want to advance, which is too difficult for them.
In this game, Klopp started as much as possible, Salah, Gakpo and Dias formed a trident, but although Liverpool was full of fighting spirit, it was a pity that the attacking state of the state still stopped their progress.
In the 6th minute, Atalanta was fouled in the penalty area and Liverpool won a penalty opportunity. Mohamed Salah, who was in a slump, took the penalty himself and finally scored the ball firmly to give Liverpool a 1-0 lead. However, it is a pity that this is Liverpool's last carnival, and for more than 80 minutes, Liverpool were attacking, but they failed to score even one more goal.
Although the opponent was defeated 1-0 away from home, Liverpool was still eliminated by Atalanta with an aggregate score of 1-3, and finally missed the Europa League semifinals. Before the start of the quarter-finals, Liverpool was the biggest favorite to win the championship, but now they can only stop in the quarterfinals, which is indeed regrettable.
In addition to Liverpool, West Ham were also unfortunate to be eliminated. At home to Bayer Leverkusen, they were held to a 1-1 draw and missed out on the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 1-3. On this night, the top 2 of the Premier League were all eliminated, which also means that no Premier League team has advanced to the semi-finals of this season's Europa League.
Coupled with the previous Champions League, all 4 teams in the Premier League were eliminated within 2 days. Of the five teams in the knockout stages of European competition, only Villa reached the last four, beating Lille on penalties to become the only European Premier League seed. I believe no one thought that one day the Premier League would rely on Villa to carry the banner of European competition, and Emery's team would become the "fig leaf" of the Premier League. However, even if Villa finally wins the European Cup, it will not be able to hide the defeat of the Premier League in Europe this season.
Of course, the fact that giants such as Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool have been eliminated in European competitions may also have something to do with the fact that they consume too much in the Premier League. If they hadn't fought too hard in the league, they might not have stopped in the quarterfinals. Compared to the Bundesliga and La Liga, the competition for the Premier League title is too fierce, which also affects their performance in the European arena. I hope that next season, these giants can focus more on the European competition and correct the name of the Premier League!