VIDEO: Leverkusen breaks Benfica’s record and is in the Europa League final

Bayer Leverkusen were one step away from losing for the first time this season, but, after 49 games, they remain unbeaten and are in the Europa League final! The Germans, moreover, break a record that, at European level, belonged to Benfica in the 60s.

The German champions, who had a two-goal advantage over Olímpico, drew, with a goal in the 90th minute, against Roma (2-2), in the 2nd leg of the semi-finals.

The “Giallorossi” started better, looking to make up for the loss, but the “pharmacists” quickly took control of the game and began to create difficulties for Daniele De Rossi’s team.

Ex-Benfica Mile Svilar, who was once again in the starting lineup, with Rui Patrício (and Renato Sanches) on the bench, made a series of saves and tried to prevent Leverkusen from scoring as much as possible, who collected scoring opportunities in the first half.

Still, against the run of play, it was Roma who scored. Jonathan Tah, who has been one of the best central defenders of the European season, made a mistake when bringing down Azmoun in the area and paved the way for the penalty taken accurately by Paredes (43m).

Roma, who bet on direct play for forwards Azmoun and Romelu Lukaku – Paulo Dybala was limited and did not leave the bench – started again well in the second half and managed to tie the tie in the 66th minute, again with a penalty, after a hand. on the ball detected by VAR.

Paredes took charge of exacting the maximum punishment and did so again in an impeccable manner.

Xabi Alonso, who had made some changes to the team, starting in goal, brought on Patrick Schick and Wirtz to gain more power in attack and Leverkusen even managed to score.

In the 82nd minute, Grimaldo took a corner kick, Svilar, who until then was one of the highlights of the match, went badly between the posts and Mancini was surprised by the ball, ending up scoring an own goal.

In stoppage time, Roma threw everything forward, but left a lot of space for the Germans to score. And so it happened, in the last minute of added time, thanks to an individual play by Stanisic, another of the players who had come off the bench.

In the final, Leverkusen will face Atalanta, who eliminated Marseille.