Liverpool's hopes of ending Jurgen Klopp's reign with a European trophy are over after they failed to overturn a first-leg deficit against Atalanta.
The Reds travelled to Italy on the back of a 3-0 defeat at Anfield last Thursday and, despite controlling the game for the large periods, could not find the required goals and lost 3-1 on aggregate.
Mohamed Salah's seventh-minute penalty, after a Trent Alexander-Arnold cross was handled, gave them hope.
As the first half drew to a close, the Egypt forward lofted well wide when put through one-on-one, but Klopp's side struggled to create meaningful openings in the second period.
It marks the end of a difficult 12 days for the Reds, who drew at Manchester United and lost at home to Crystal Palace to surrender their lead at the top of the Premier League.
Attention will now turn back to the title race with Liverpool sitting third behind second-placed Arsenal and two points off leaders Manchester City.
The league now represents their final chance to give Klopp a fairytale ending to his eight-and-a-half years on Merseyside and add to their success in the Carabao Cup in February.
Line-ups
Atalanta XI: Musso, Gjimshiti, Hien, Kolasinac, Zappacosta, De Roon, Ederson, Ruggeri, Koopmeiners, Al. Miranchuk, Scamacca.
Subs: Carnesecchi, Rossi, Toloi, Holm, Pasalic, Toure, Lookman, De Ketelaere, Bakker, Adopo, Hateboer, Bonfanti.
Liverpool XI: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Diaz, Gakpo, Salah.
Subs: Adrian, Kelleher, Gomez, Endo, Nunez, Elliot, Jota, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Clark, Danns, Quansah.
kingpromise345
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Liverpool players trying to score 3 goals today
Chrismaris1
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we all can say that Atlanta Coach has outclassed Klopp 100%. When has Allion started touching the ball more than Salah? What is VVD doing with Allison? What game plan is this? Same thing they did to your defenders at Home, u saw it happening again, and you didn’t have another approach at halftime to tell your players. 20 to 35 minutes of our game time was wasted by Allion and our back four with no meaningful outcome. 3 changes were made, was just nothing why? The back 4 kept doing what they were doing, hoping for What? Atlanta attackers to back down? credit goes to Atlanta Coach, he read our game and stood firm. put 4 to 5 players up front, take that risk and keep them playing Just there or they kick the ball...we refuse to kick the ball, and at the end wasted most of our time playing from Allison to VVD to Konate back to Allison, back to VVD, and back to Allison.
AlwaysSoccer
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Liverpool isn't walking alone, they're holding hands with Man City & Arsenal while they walk out of the european competitions
borrow
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The GIF is already here, my pleasure: http://www.goalgif.xyz/v2/live/matchGifs?match_id=53828238&language=en
M_cAveli
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Since this guy left, it has been a whole different story from winning. They said Salah is better than him but he brings the best out of Salah. Salah should win the Balon D’or by now if he was present at Liverpool because he keeps taking his glory. Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar. Just show some appreciation if you truly missed this guy.
RH_Roman
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It's proved that the English league is overrated af. they are competitive. It doesn't mean they are good. They are just equally bad teams. That's why they are competitive.. Look at them. 4 went to the champions league.. None made it to the semis. 2 got eliminated being in 4th spot in the group stage. 3 went to Europa league. Now all gone. Just Aston Villa qualified via Penalty shootouts in the Conference league.. They are just trash teams. Even a struggling German teams like Dortmund & out of form Bayern made it to the semis.
Kril5150
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The_Alpha13
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finally won a game, kept a clean sheet and still nothing to show for it.
AFerzwTT5709
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Liverpool :- We will win the Europa League Atalanta:
Thechamp
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First pls change the owner if he doesn't want to spend money on players then Liverpool need to look for other owner because if Liverpool want to win trophies they need good players without good players Liverpool can't win trophies special when you have to compit with city.
malablata
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Lovebug2
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The only comeback Liverpool could do was to COME BACK HOME walking alone.
SylvesterMarkAppau
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First pls change the owner if he doesn't want to spend money on players then Liverpool need to look for other owner because if Liverpool want to win trophies they need good players without good players Liverpool can't win trophies special when you have to compit with city.
You’re now crying for good players. Are you not the same people who say even your team B will beat every team? You haven’t seen anything yet
AngelBluebest
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First pls change the owner if he doesn't want to spend money on players then Liverpool need to look for other owner because if Liverpool want to win trophies they need good players without good players Liverpool can't win trophies special when you have to compit with city.
so liverpool buying endo, sobozlai, macallister dont count?
AngelBluebest
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First pls change the owner if he doesn't want to spend money on players then Liverpool need to look for other owner because if Liverpool want to win trophies they need good players without good players Liverpool can't win trophies special when you have to compit with city.
liverpool loses one time and yall already complaining about owner💀