EUROPA League
MAN UTD 2-1 LASK: INTER 2-0 GETAFE – SCORE AND GOAL UPDATES FROM EUROPA LEAGUE LAST 16 TIE
FULL-TIME: INTER 2-0 GETAFE
Inter Milan are also through following their single-leg 2-0 victory over Getafe.
Romelu Lukaku and Christian Eriksen struck in both halves to seal victory.
FULL TIME: Manchester United 2-1 LASK.
Manchester United will now face FC Copenhagen in the quarter-final on Monday.
GOAL: MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 LASK (Martial 89mins)
Well there it is.
Juan Mata squeezes the ball to Anthony Martial, he jinks into the box and slides home his 23rd goal of the season. He is now Manchester United’s leading scorer this season ahead of Rashford.
GOAL: MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 LASK
Well there it is.
Juan Mata squeezes the ball to Anthony Martial, he jinks into the box and slides home his 23rd goal of the season. He is now Manchester United’s leading scorer this season ahead of Rashford.
The hosts are now on the way to a wholly unsatisfactory victory sealed only by one of their key men off the bench.
The Nerrazurri have one foot in the last eight as another former Premier League star gets on the scoresheet.
Ex-Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen has doubled Inter’s advantage after Lukaku’s earlier strike.
84mins: ANOTHER SUBSTITUTION FOR UNITED
MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 LASK
Finally Mengi gets his moment in place of Fosu-Mensah.
Martial is also on to replace Dan James. Solskjaer clearly keen to sneak a winner here for morale purposes.
GOAL: INTER 2-0 Getafe (Eriksen 81mins)
Inter have finally, surely, sealed the victory.
Christian Eriksen is there to fire home a loose ball after a fine run and cross from D’Ambrosio down the right.
80mins: 18-YEAR OLD MAKES A DEBUT FOR UNITED:
MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 LASK
A big moment for 18-year-old Teden Mengi as the centre-back makes his Manchester United debut.
Tahith Chong has slotted in at left-back, with Williams wrapped in cotton wool and Luke Shaw injured until September. He has looked comfortable there, it could be a long-term shift…
Mata miscontrols as the ball rolls to him across the box. Awful moment for the Spaniard.
79mins: MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 LASK
LASK bring on Filipovic and take off Andrade.
Not much else to report as we near the final ten minutes of an instantly forgettable game.
76mins: PENALTY FOR GETAFE: INTER 1-0 GETAFE
Anthony Taylor awards Getafe a penalty against Inter Milan.
A lifeline after Diego Godin was adjudged to have handled in the box… but Jorge Molina sends it wide of the post! Inter still on for a huge victory.
Lukaku then misses a sitter from yards out after a fine pull-back. No one wants to win this just yet…
73mins: MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 LASK
The substitutions made by both Manchester United and LASK have done nothing to lit the game. Very dull right now.
Sabitzer is on for LASK.
Eric Bailly appeared to take a knee to the head but is fine to continue.
Mata and James build an attack but the final ball is wasteful yet aga
SUBSTITUTION ALSO FOR LASK
Balic off, Reiter on
63mins: Substitution for Man Utd – MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 LASK
Having scored the leveller, Jesse Lingard is then hooked and does not look happy.
Lingard and Fred depart, Paul Pogba and Andreas Pereira enter the fray.
Two goals in 93 seconds! United fight back!!!
GOAL! Man Utd 1-1 LASK (Lingard, 57)
Just like that, United are back level.
Minutes after LASK took the lead with that superb Weisinger effort, Jesse Lingard equalises.
The United midfielder broke free of the LASK defence before cooly slotting the ball past the keeper.
GOAL! Man Utd 0-1 LASK (Weisinger, 55)
What a hit, son! Dig that one out.
Weisinger with a beautiful curling strike from what seemed like miles out right into the top corner. Romero had no chance.
50mins: MANCHESTER UNITED 0-0 LASK – Ighalo misses scoring chance!
First, Mata slips the ball to Ighalo but his weak shot as he slips is easily saved. Still, it counts as a shot .
McTominay and Lingard combine in midfield, the latter releases Williams down the left, he breaks into the box and his low centre is just inches away from the sliding James and Lingard.
Copenhagen to come
United will face FC Copenhagen in the quarter-final on Monday.
Providing of course we don’t see the mother of all collapses..
48mins: MANCHESTER UNITED 0-0 LASK
Once more Dan James bursts into space on the edge of the penalty area.
Once again his end product is atrocious with Ighalo lurking.
HALF-TIME: INTER 1-0 GETAFE
Romelu Lukaku’s goal is the only difference between Inter and Getafe in their single-leg knockout match. Getafe have 45 minutes to turn that around.
HT: Man Utd 0-0 LASK
First 45 minutes is up at Old Trafford and little to shout about.
LASK had the best of the chances when Andrade’s header came back off the bar in the opening exchanges.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be hoping to see more from his team in the next half with a number of stars failing to hit the right notes.
HALF TIME: INTER 1-0 GETAFE
Romelu Lukaku gives Inter lead against Getafe
HALF-TIME: MANCHESTER UNITED 0-0 LASK
Let’s pretend that didn’t happen?
A woeful first-half display from Manchester United, with LASK coming closest to a breakthrough after hitting the bar.
Not one of these fringe players is working their way into first-team thinking at the moment.
Manchester United’s spot in the last eight of the Europa League is assured, barring the most ridiculous result at Old Trafford tonight.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men won the first leg in Austria over 140 days ago with a thumping 5-0 win.
Solskjaer makes nine changes from last month’s match with Leicester.
Harry Maguire and Brandon Williams are the only survivors from the 2-0 win at the King Power Stadium 10 days ago.
But there were only two new faces from the 5-0 first-leg win in Austria in March, with Jesse Lingard and Timothy Fosu-Mensah replacing Bruno Fernandes and the injured Luke Shaw.
We’ll keep you across all the action for tonight’s 8PM kickoff.
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Man Utd starting XI: Romero; Fosu-Mensah, Bailly, Maguire, Williams; McTominay, Fred; Mata, Lingard, James; Ighalo
LASK Linz starting XI: Schlager; Wiesinger, Trauner, Andrade, Ranftl; Holland, Michorl, Renner, Frieser, Raguz; Balic
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim defended under-fire goalkeeper Andre Onana following the Cameroonian’s costly mistakes in his side’s 2-2 draw at Olympique Lyonnais in their Europa League quarter-final first leg on Thursday.
Onana allowed Thiago Almada’s free kick to squirm past him in the Groupama Stadium and was also at fault for Rayan Cherki’s last-gasp equaliser that denied United victory.
Since the start of last season, no Premier League club’s goalkeeper has made more errors leading to goals being conceded in all competitions than Onana.
“It can happen, if you play football, you play a lot of games, you can make mistakes,” Amorim said. “If you look at the season, I make more mistakes than them during these last games and these last months.
“The other thing is we have one more game to change everything and that should be our focus.
“The best thing is to look at the goals, all the actions that Andre had in the game, this is the best way to help any player, it’s to focus on the game, what happened, what we need to improve.”
United nonetheless remain unbeaten in this season’s Europa League — the only side to do so this term — after goals from Leny Yoro and Joshua Zirkzee put them on course for a potential victory.
The team, who are 13th in the English Premier League standings, still go into next week’s second leg in Manchester as favourites to book a spot in the last four.
“It was an entertaining game,” Amorim added. “We had some difficulty in the first half trying to press, because Lyon played in a different way. Then, in the middle of the first half and especially the second, we controlled the game.
“The second leg will be a different game. At home, our fans want us to press all the time.”
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Manchester United will be without defender Harry Maguire and midfielder Manuel Ugarte for Thursday’s Europa League last-16 clash with Real Sociedad, coach Ruben Amorim said, as he seeks to salvage an otherwise dire season.
The pair were left out of an already depleted squad after picking up injuries in last weekend’s penalty shootout defeat to Fulham that dumped them out of the FA Cup to compound the misery of lying 14th in the Premier League.
“We are being careful with them because at the moment we cannot afford to lose any more players for a long time,” Amorim told a press conference on Wednesday before the Europa League first leg game in Spain.
“We are taking care of them at Carrington (training ground) and they cannot play this game because it will be a greater risk.”
The coach, who joined United in November, stressed the importance of balancing youth development with the needs of the squad during a worsening injury crisis.
“I’m trying to cope with everything. When I do my squad, I’m trying to think about every aspect, of the formation of the (new) kids, of the squad and not if it will look really well with the fans and the media,” Amorim said.
Altay Bayindir, Tom Heaton, Jonny Evans, Kobbie Mainoo, Luke Shaw and Mason Mount remain on individual rehabilitation programmes.
Lisandro Martinez, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament, and Amad Diallo, who suffered an ankle ligament injury in training, are also sidelined.
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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes scored a last-gasp winner to secure a 2-1 victory over Rangers in the Europa League group stage on Thursday and Tottenham Hotspur captain Son Heung-min struck twice in his team’s 3-2 win at Hoffenheim.
United climbed to fourth in the standings on 15 points going into the last round of matches, in a strong position to reach the knockout phase along with Spurs who are sixth with 14 points.
The English side broke the deadlock early in the second half when Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland misjudged a Christian Eriksen corner, sending the ball into his own net.
Rangers fought back with an equaliser from substitute Cyril Dessers two minutes from time before Fernandes struck in added time to give United all three points.
In Germany, James Maddison opened the scoring for Spurs in the third minute and Son doubled the lead in a first half the visitors dominated.
Hoffenheim pulled one back in the 68th minute through Anton Stach’s counter-attack goal. Son restored Spurs’ two-goal lead in the 77th minute before the hosts’ David Mokwa scored to give his side late hope but the game ended in a narrow win for the English side.
Lazio stayed top of the standings with a commanding 3-1 home victory over Real Sociedad to become the first team to qualify for the round of 16.
Mario Gila struck after five minutes and when Sociedad’s Aihen Munoz was shown a second yellow card on the half-hour mark, Lazio immediately seized the advantage.
Mattia Zaccagni quickly doubled the lead and Taty Castellanos effectively ended the match with a third for the hosts. Ander Barrenetxea scored a late consolation goal for Sociedad.
Eintracht Frankfurt moved closer to securing a top-eight spot with a 2-0 home win over Hungarian side Ferencvaros thanks to second-half goals from Can Uzun and Hugo Ekitike. They are second in the standings with 16 points, three ahead of ninth-placed Galatasaray.
A late goal from Troy Parrott gave AZ Alkmaar a 1-0 home win over AS Roma and Olympiacos earned a 1-0 victory at Porto thanks to a late goal from Ayoub El Kaabi.
Dutch side Alkmaar can still reach the top eight with 11 points sitting in 14th place while Roma’s nine points place them 21st, close to the bottom of the playoff section.
Fenerbahce and Olympique Lyonnais played out an intense goalless draw in Istanbul, leaving the French side in a strong position to progress to fifth place in the group on 14 points.
-Reuters
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