To the Mexican Edson Álvarez and West Ham had to dance with one of the ugliest after the draw for the quarterfinals of the Europa League where it was determined that the English team will have to face Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen, the fashionable team in European football.
The German team does not know what defeat is like in the last 37 games in all the competitions it plays in this season. It is the longest unbeaten streak for a German team, surpassing the 32 games without losing at the hands of the all-powerful Bayern Munich.
But now they will have to face Machín and a West Ham willing to put an end to the good moment of Xabi Alonso and his team, who already got complicated in the round of 16 of the Europa League in their series against Qarabag of Azerbaijan, which eliminated an agonizing draw (2-2) in the first leg and whom he beat (3-2), also at the last moment in the second leg.
For its part, The Mexican midfielder’s team reaches this stage inspired after getting their ticket with a spectacular win against Freiburg (5-0) in the second match of their series which they turned around after having lost by the minimum in the first match.
Edson Álvarez, as usual this season, was in David Moyes’ starting eleven, providing sobriety and security in the middle of the field. He played 86 minutes with a yellow card in the duel played on Thursday at the London Stadium.
After the meeting, the Mexican player who is part of the Mexican National Team call for the Final Four of the Concacaf Nations Leaguehe gave his shirt to a child who was in the stands of the stadium wearing a Tri shirt.
This is how the Europa League quarterfinals turned out
In addition to the duel between West Ham and Bayer Leverkusen, the draw for the quarterfinals of the Europa League revealed that another of the candidates for the title, English Liverpool has to face Italian Atalanta, current champion of Serie A.
Another high-tension duel will be between AC Milan and AS Roma, while Benfica and Olympique de Marseille will be fighting for the other ticket to the semifinals of the tournament that will be defined in the final in London on May 22 in Dublin.
The duels for the quarterfinals will take place on April 17 in the first leg, while the second leg will take place a week later. The semifinals will be played on May 2 and 9 of that same month.
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