Murillo leaves injured and Anderlecht is eliminated

Shoulder strap of the Greek Vangelis Pavlidis and the decisive defense of Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan, who saved two Anderlecht penalties from Panamanian Michael Amir Murillo, led to AZ Alkmaar to the semi-finals of the Conference League.

It was just decided one on one from eleven meters between the Dutch national team and the Belgian team, which they won 2-0 in the first game. The result was repeated at the AFAS Stadium in Alkmaar. There were no goals in extra time, and the classification was at the expense of shots where Ryan made the difference.

AZ Alkmaar He wanted to reach the European semi-finals almost twenty years after the last time. In the 2004/2005 season, he played in the semi-finals UEFA Cup and was eliminated by Sporting Lisbon, which sealed the Dutch team’s path to what would have been their second continental final.

The obstacle, on this occasion, was called Anderlecht, another European football classic who soon found himself in trouble. The two-goal advantage they achieved in the first game evaporated in just 13 minutes, as long as it took Vangelis Pavlidis to score a double to equalize the score.

First, from the penalty spot; and later, after a quarter of an hour, after a goal into an empty net after an assist Jens Odgaard. In just a little while, AZ He was again fully involved in the tie against an opponent who woke up only in the second halfwhen Moussa N’Diaye forced goalkeeper Mathew Ryan with an impressive shot intervene preventively for the Dutch team.