Leicester and Napoli faced an uphill task of reaching the knockout stages of the Europa League as they both suffered losses on Thursday, while Rangers’ 1-0 loss to Sparta Prague was another race involving Glenn Kamara. The line was impressed. A lot changed Leicester went down 1–0 to Legia Warsaw in Poland, while Napoli’s unbeaten record this season was broken by a double of the Quincy Proms for Spartak Moscow in a thrilling 3–2 win for the Russians at the Diego Maradona Stadium. terminated. Unlike the Italians, who top Serie A with a 100 percent record, Leicester have also had a poor start in the Premier League. With that in mind, Brendan Rodgers made bulk changes and paid a hefty price tag ahead of Sunday’s visit to Crystal Palace.
The only goal of a cage fight in Warsaw reached 31 minutes as Master Imreli stunned Daniel Amarte and drilled a low shot through Jannik Vestergaard’s legs and outside the post.
“I’ve made changes, but that doesn’t diminish its importance. We have four more games to qualify,” Rodgers said.
“We’ve got one point from two games but there’s enough time to do that.”
Elif Elmas made a great start for Napoli by scoring a goal after just 11 seconds.
However, Mario Rui’s 29-minute red card changed the course of the game.
The start of the second period looked promising and Mikhail Ignatov put the visitors in front before balancing the numbers before the dismissal of Maximiliano Kofris.
Another goal from Proms in stoppage time pushed the game ahead of Napoli, despite Viktor Osimhen withdrawing consolation late.
Legia top the group on six points, with Spartak on three and the more hardcore Leicester and Napoli on one each.
Gerard ‘not surprised’ by Kamra abuse
Rangers’ poor European form continued as Steven Gerrard’s men were beaten in the Czech capital, where the focus was again on Kamara.
The Finnish international was racially abused last season by Slavia Prague defender Ondrej Kudela, which earned the Czech international a 10-game UEFA ban and saw him miss Euro 2020.
The Letna Stadium was originally supposed to be closed for Rangers’ visit following a separate racist allegation against Sparta following Monaco’s misbehavior with Aurelian Tchoumeni in August.
UEFA instead agreed to go ahead with the game’s proposal, mainly school children, with some adults, but by the time Kamara touched the ball, the boo was heard.
Kamara was sent off with 15 minutes remaining for two bookable offences, before David Hanko’s first-half-headed goal condemned Rangers to their second consecutive defeat in Group A.
“I’m not surprised. We’re playing behind closed doors, apparently, for a reason,” Gerrard said. “This is not the first time there have been issues in this place. The powers that be are not enough.”
Karl Toko Ekambi scored twice for Lyon and finished at the top of Group A after beating Brndby 3–0.
Celtic are also without points after being crushed 4-0 at home by Bayer Leverkusen.
Piero Hincapie and 18-year-old sensation Florian Wirtz gave the Germans a half-time lead. Lucas Alario’s penalty and Armin Adil’s stoppage-time strike resulted in the defeat in Glasgow.
Betis beat Ferencváros 3-1 in Hungary to level with Leverkusen on six points.
West Ham also registered two wins in two matches, thanks to goals from Declan Rice and Saeed Benrahma, in a comfortable 2–0 win over Rapid Vienna.
In Group B, Real Sociedad and Monaco played out a 1–1 draw at San Sebastian, while PSV Eindhoven finished on top with a 4–1 win at Sturm Graz.
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