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European football: Leverkusen smash Bochum to reach 50 games unbeaten | European club football

The Bundesliga champions, Bayer Leverkusen, crushed hosts Bochum 5-0 on Sunday to stretch their unbeaten run throughout all competitions to 50 matches. Final Thursday Xabi Alonso’s staff, aiming for a treble of titles, surpassed Benfica’s longstanding European unbeaten document set from 1963 to 1965 with a 2-2 draw against Roma that despatched them by to the Europa League ultimate. Leverkusen didn’t ease off towards lowly Bochum, scoring twice late within the first half versus the final Bundesliga staff to beat them within the earlier season. Patrik Schick put the guests within the driving seat within the forty first minute and Victor Boniface doubled their lead with a penalty, with Bochum right down to 10 males following a straight purple card for Felix Passlack within the fifteenth minute. Amine Adli made it 3-0 within the 76th and Josip Stanisic added one other within the 86th with a low drive earlier than delivering an help for Alejandro Grimaldo to attain in stoppage time. Alonso stated: “I’m very glad with the consequence. It was necessary for us. Now we have now a brilliant aim on Saturday to win the title with none defeat. That has by no means…

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Feyenoord v Roma, Shakhtar v Marseille and more: Europa League playoffs – live | Europa League

Key occasions Present key occasions solely Please activate JavaScript to make use of this characteristic Talking of Bayern and this week’s European thrills and spills, take pleasure in Soccer Every day – scorching off the press – together with your Thursday night shandy. No less than there was one shock consequence within the 4 opening Champions League final 16 first legs earlier this week, due to Bayern Munich doing their best Spurs impression with defeat at Lazio. Poor outdated Hazza Kane. What would represent a shock on this Europa League playoff spherical? Galatasaray and Sporting should be thought-about massive favourites to progress past these ties; whereas later the heavyweights of AC Milan and Benfica will probably be anticipated to cruise via too. There’s not a lot between lots of the different sides, although. Extra crew information: North London rejects Davinson Sanchez and Lucas Torreira begin for Galatasaray – who’re spearheaded by Euro veterans Mauro Icardi and Dries Mertens – towards Sparta Prague. There’s one other one within the Marseille lineup towards Shakhtar Donestk, as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang begins for the French facet. Les Olympiens even have former Spurs backup goalkeeper Pau López between the sticks. Sporting’s…

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European roundup: Aaron Ramsey scores Nice debut equaliser | Ligue 1

Aaron Ramsey scored one minute after coming off the bench to rescue a 1-1 draw on his debut for Good of their Ligue 1 conflict in opposition to Toulouse. The 31-year-old former Arsenal and Juventus midfielder joined the French membership on a free switch earlier this month. He began Sunday’s fixture as an alternative earlier than he changed Calvin Stengs with simply 13 minutes remaining on the Stadium Municipal in Toulouse. And on the similar floor as he netted for Wales of their 3-0 win in opposition to Russia at Euro 2016, Ramsey discovered the again of the web. Following a driving run from Bilal Brahimi, Ramsey latched onto his team-mate’s go earlier than executing a advantageous end. Till Ramsey’s intervention, Toulouse had regarded on target for victory after Thijs Dallinga opened the scoring with 20 minutes gone. RB Leipzig dropped factors at first of their Bundesliga season, drawing 1-1 at Stuttgart regardless of taking the lead and lacking a bagful of possibilities within the second half. Leipzig, who final week misplaced 5-3 to Bayern Munich within the German Tremendous Cup, received off to a flying begin with 2021/22 Bundesliga participant of the season Christopher…

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