The hope is that Liverpool can face Leverkusen in the Europa League final this season, besides Milan, they are also worthy enough to be a worthy opponent for the two favorite teams. It's true, there is no guarantee that these three clubs can reach the final, because it all depends on their luck in eliminating their opponents in the quarter-finals first. The competition for the Europa League trophy does not only require good squad depth, but mentality and experience also play a big role. It seemed that Leverkusen had a little difficulty in advancing to the quarter-finals yesterday, they were almost eliminated by Qarabag.
Surprises of course happen quite often in the European League, because all teams want trophies, and we very often see several teams being able to perform beyond predictions. Favorite status won't make things easy, let alone underestimating your opponents and being lulled by the praise they get. Among all the remaining contestants currently, Leverkusen is the team that has attracted the attention of many people by appearing unbeatable, even though they don't have the reputation of Liverpool, Xabi Alonso squad seems will to have had great luck this season.
For now, Leverkusen and Liverpool are quite favorites because they have had a fairly consistent performance since the start of the season, but I won't overly favorite them because as happened in the previous season in the Europa League, there were quite a lot of surprises that happened so this is also possible to happen. this season.
And Roma and AC Milan are two teams that cannot be underestimated, in terms of team quality they are quite on par with Liverpool and Leverkusen.
The luck factor also influences in knockout matches, especially in quarter-final matches and above, a team's performance always guarantees that they can do the same thing or show their best performance without having a strong mentality because this is a European stage where all teams will give everything to be able to show. best performance, so everything will be very fierce and difficult.