The Europa League semi-final match between Leverkusen and AS Roma is scheduled for Thursday, May 18 at 10:00 p.m. at the BayArena and will be broadcast live on the Voyo streaming platform.

Leverkusen are hoping for a place in the competition’s grand final but start with a second chance to qualify after Roma won 1-0 in the first leg at the Olimpico (Bove 63).

Leverkusen are 7th in the Bundesliga, tied on points with Wolfsburg in 6th place, which secures a place in the Conference League, while the gap to 5th place, which qualifies for the Europa League, is seven points. with only two stages left to play.

Pharmacists drew 1:1 at Stuttgart in the last stage of the championship and have only one win in their last five Bundesliga games (the rest are three draws and one loss).

Xabi Alonso’s side have reached this stage of the competition after finishing 3rd in their Champions League group, which saw Porto and Club Brugge eliminated, before reaching the Europa League where they edged out Monaco. 2-3 (a) and 3-2, 5-3 on penalties (d), Ferencvaros, 2-0 (a) and 2-0 (d), and Union Saint-Gilloise, 1-1 (a) and 4 -1 (d).

Leverkusen’s best performance in the Europa League is winning the trophy in the 1987-88 season (UEFA Cup) after the final against Espanyol, 0-3 (d) and 3-0, 3-2 on penalties (a).

Roma are in 6th place in Serie A, which will allow them access to the Conference League, a competition they won last season (1-0 in the final in Tirana against Feyenoord), with little chance of another League place champions (she is seven points behind Lazio, the team in 4th place, with three stages to the end of the championship).

Capitolini drew their last Serie A match 0-0 away to Bologna, ending a five-game winless run (three draws and two losses).

Jose Mourinho’s side reached the semi-finals of the Europa League, finishing 2nd in a group won by Betis and also featuring Ludogorets and HIK Helsinki (W3 D1 L2), then RB Salzburg, 0-1 (d) and 2-0 (a), Real Sociedad, 2-0 (a) and 0-0 (d), and Feyenoord, 0-1 (d) and 4-1 after extensions (a ).

The best performance of the Romans in the Europa League is the final of 1991 (the competition was called the UEFA Cup), lost to Inter with a score of 0-2 (d) and 1-0 (a).

The last time these two teams met in a European “double” was in the 2015-2016 Champions League season, in the group stage, when after a 4-4 draw in Leverkusen, Roma won 3-2 at home.

Superbet offers odds of 1.30 on the 1X prediction: a win for the home team or a draw in the regular time of 90 minutes of the Leverkusen – Roma match.

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