After last week’s 1-1 draw, the Europa League semi-final match between Marseille and Atalanta was on the brink of elimination until Thursday night’s 3-0 victory for the Serie A team.

Bayer Leverkusen will face Atalanta in the Europa League final on May 22, after the former eliminated Liverpool in the quarterfinals.

Leverkusen won 4-2 on aggregate against Roma, but Xabi Alonso’s team scored twice in the last minute to earn a draw and extend their remarkable unbeaten streak to 49 games.The record for the greatest unbeaten run in European football now belongs to Leverkusen, surpassing Benfica’s record of 48 games unbeaten in all competitions from December 1963 to February 1965.

Midway through the season, Aubameyang has been instrumental for Marseille, scoring 27 goals in all competitions.

On Thursday night, though, after Marseille’s loss to Atalanta prevented them from advancing to the Europa League final, the former Arsenal captain was moved to tears at the final whistle.

Even so, Aubameyang will take home a personal trophy from his Europa League campaign; with 10 goals so far this season, he is a heavy favorite to be named the tournament’s leading scorer.Marseille head coach Jean-Louis Gasset expressed his perplexion following his team’s loss against Atalanta, saying, “It’s incomprehensible to go from a week where we competed with them in aggression and desire to have been eaten up in aggression this evening.”

We blundered twice or thrice in this encounter, and they were fierce when they had no possession of the ball. We ranked last in terms of aggressiveness.

“We made an effort. We attempted to go back to 2-1 by bringing in attackers, but we were unsuccessful.

We must not lose sight of our actions. We should not lose sight of our accomplishments, even though we are dissatisfied since we had high hopes.

I beg everyone to be holy in their togetherness because it is crucial that Marseille participate in the European Cup next season.