'Wolf Klopp not so bad' - Italian media react as Atalanta knock out 'luxury scalp' Liverpool

Liverpool might have won 1-0 away at Atalanta on Thursday night, but it wasn’t enough to keep their dreams of a Dublin send-off for Jurgen Klopp alive.

In truth, the damage had already been done last weekend at Anfield. Despite a bright start, where the Reds took the lead on the night through a seventh-minute Mohamed Salah penalty, they rarely looked in danger of overturning the Serie A outfit’s 3-0 first leg lead.

Atalanta progress to face Marseille in the Europa League semi-finals, while Liverpool, the previous favourites to win the tournament, return to Merseyside licking their wounds. Again not at their best in Bergamo, Klopp now has it all to do to keep the below-par Reds in Premier League title contention with six games of their season, and the German’s reign, remaining.

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As the inquest into Liverpool’s loss of form continues, Atalanta have made history by reaching their first European semi-final since 1988. And celebrating a famous victory, the Italian media were delighted to see it come at the expense of one of European football’s biggest names…

‘Liverpool unable to overturn score against tenacity of a working goddess’

La Gazzetta dello Sport

‘The feat is accomplished: 36 years after the first time, Atalanta returns to the semi-final of a European cup. The 0-3 at Anfield is too much even for a team used to comebacks like Liverpool, who this time are unable to overturn the score against the tenacity of a working Goddess and who never stops fighting.

‘The English change of pace does not arrive. As in the first leg, Gasp takes his time to change his cards on the