Liverpool are left with just the Premier League to chase after their Europa League dream came to an end at the hands of Atalanta.

A 3-0 loss from the first leg last week did the damage with the Reds unable to complete a comeback in Bergamo on Thursday night, despite winning 1-0 through Mohamed Salah's early penalty.

The ECHO was at the Gewiss Stadium to provide its usual mix of player ratings, match analysis and big-game verdict, while our colleagues from the national media were also on hand to offer their own considered views....

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The Telegraph's Chris Bascombe mused: "Liverpool’s end of an era party in Dublin is off.

"There will be no ordering a treble in the Irish capital for Jurgen Klopp.

The failure to even get close to such a feat against a resolute Atalanta indicates there may not be one last grandstand in the Premier League, either.

"Instead, rather than making everyone lament Klopp’s departure when there might be so much more to give, this was just another match that illustrated this era really is 'running out of energy', as he put it.

"The great Mohamed Salah almost personifies this.

This was just too much, in a way you don’t usually hear about a Klopp team.

"Liverpool just didn’t conjure enough against a canny Atalanta, who more than deserved their place in a Europa League semi-final after a 3-1 aggregate victory.

It was not beautiful, but it was a satisfactory performance that has healed some of the psychological wounds of the last fortnight and given fans hope that the Jurgen Klopp era can still have a magical ending.

"Winning on the night, via an early Mohamed Salah penalty, stopped the rot after two losses and a draw in the weeks before threatened to derail their season.

Now Liverpool have no option but to cope with a dose of cold, harsh reality as they prepare for the final weeks of Jurgen Klopp’s reign.

"The dream of a Europa League final farewell and the Reds boss completing the set of major honours under his tenure may have realistically been extinguished during the harrowing first leg at Anfield a week ago.

"But it would be pushing matters to suggest this return in Bergamo pointed to what might have been for Liverpool, despite earning themselves some solace of victory on the night and ending a run of successive defeats.

"There had been the early hope offered by Mohamed Salah notching a penalty, with those looking for omens quick to point out the minute in which it was converted – the seventh – was the same as when Divock Origi opened the scoring on that famous night against Barcelona five years ago."