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Having flexed their muscles in the Round of 16 against Slavia Prague winning 11-2 on aggregate, the Reds now have their pathway to a potential Europa League final.
Liverpool are by far and away the best team in the Europa League, with Slavia Prague's manager even admitting they were a side who belong in the Champions League. However, there were some sides Jurgen Klopp will have been hoping his team could avoid in the quarter-final stage.
Luck was certainly on their side with Liverpool avoiding the likes of Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham and AC Milan at this stage of the competition by drawing Serie A side, Atalanta, with the Reds playing at home in the first leg.
Klopp will be looking forward to this Europa League bout and confident of progressing, although there will be some key battles to keep an eye out for, which we have analysed below.
Liverpool Europe League odds – Current outrights
- Liverpool – 10/11
- Bayer Leverkusen – 7/2
- AC Milan – 13/2
- Roma 12/1
- West Ham 16/1
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*These are just projected odds at the moment
Liverpool vs Sparta Praha – Key Duels
Alexis Mac Allister vs Marten de Roon
According to the official Europa League stats, Alxis Mac Allister is the most fouled Liverpool player in the competition this season, which shows how eager opponents are to ensure he doesn't influence the game.
Mac Allister is also the most fouled player in the Liverpool squad when playing in the Premier League, so it's a rather common theme. Therefore, we believe Atalanta's Marten de Roon could be at risk of ending up in the referee's notebook.
De Roon has picked up the most bookings out of every Atalanta player in the Europa League as well as sitting in the top 20 for fouls committed in Serie A, so it's certainly part of his game.
So, it's no surprise we're going to advise you to look into De Roon to be booked, especially with odds of around 6/2*
Darwin Nunez vs Sead Kolasinac
Darwin Nunez has been showing everyone this season the impressive raw talent he possesses and that when in the right vein of form he can be a deadly attacker. Nunez is also starting to find comfort in the Europa League with three goals in his last two appearances, so Sead Kolasinac will be worried.
The Bosnian international has been deployed as a centre-back for the majority of this season with Atalanta, a far cry from his left-back and elft-wing back days at Arsenal and hasn't been overly impressive. Atalanta have kept three clean sheets in the Europa League this term and two of them came when Kolasinac wasn't in the starting lineup.
Given Kolasinac's inability to play a clean game and itching to get close to his man, backing him to be booked at 7/4* would be a sensible move.
Virgil van Dijk vs Ademola Lookman
While Liverpool are the overwhelming favourites to progress into the next round, Atalanta will, of course, pose a threat going forward, especially in the home leg with their fans behind them. Their most dangerous player is Ademola Lookman who is on course to have his best goalscoring season and smash last year's total of 13.
So, when working in training and analysis sessions, Klopp will be emphasising to his defenders how tricky it will be against the Nigerian international. It's unclear who will be fit for the first with Ibrahima Koante missing the game on Thursday, but with it being the quarter-finals, we expect Klopp to unleash some of his big names.
It will certainly be a tough test for Van Dijk coming up against one of the best dribblers in the Europa League and Lookman's low centre of gravity it's a tasty clash on the cards. We're going to be backing Lookman to register 2+ shots on target at 6/2*.
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