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.
Follow all the action, as it happens, below.
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
EUROPA League
‘Mr Europa League’ Unai Emery into yet another final

Four-times Europa League winner Unai Emery booked an astonishing sixth final in the competition as a manager on Thursday when his Aston Villa team swept aside Nottingham Forest in the second leg of their all-English semi-final.
The 54-year-old Spaniard has won three times with Sevilla (2014, 2015, 2016) and once with Villarreal (2021) – either side of a defeat with Arsenal (2019) – deservedly earning him the epithet “Mr Europa League” from some fans and media.
Now he goes to the 2026 final seeking a fifth title, this time with Aston Villa against Bundesliga side Freiburg.
“His track record speaks for itself,” said Villa striker Ollie Watkins, heaping praise on his boss as the man to guarantee Europa League success. “We need to go and win it now.”
Emery was delighted with how his team overturned a 1-0 deficit to Forest in the first leg of the Europa League semi-final to score four times at home and win 4-1 on aggregate.
“Now we have to look to the final,” he said, hoping that Villa will do “something fantastic” for their fans.
Though thrilled at Thursday’s win, Emery left the pitch quickly after the final whistle, pumping his fist a few times at the crowd before letting his players enjoy the moment with fans
He and his Villa side will be favourites at the Europa League final in Istanbul on May 20, but Emery was taking nothing for granted. “Of course German teams are so difficult, their coaches, their players are so good,” he added of the upcoming opponents.
-Reuters
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List of teams qualified for the Europa League knockout phase

List of teams which have qualified for the next round of the Europa League after the league phase concluded on Thursday, ranked by table position:
Directly to the round of 16:
1. Olympique Lyonnais (France)
2. Aston Villa (England)
3. Midtjylland (Denmark)
4. Real Betis (Spain)
5. Porto (Portugal)
6. Braga (Portugal)
7. Freiburg (Germany)
8. AS Roma (Italy)
Knockout phase play-off places (seeded)
9. Genk (Belgium)
10. Bologna (Italy)
11. VfB Stuttgart (Germany)
12. Ferencvaros (Hungary)
13. Nottingham Forest (England)
14. Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic)
15. Red Star Belgrade (Serbia)
16. Celta Vigo (Spain)
Knockout phase play-off places (unseeded)
17. PAOK (Greece)
18. Lille (France)
19. Fenerbahce (Turkey)
20. Panathinaikos (Greece)
21. Celtic (Scotland)
22. Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
23. Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)
24. SK Brann (Norway)
-Reuters
UEFA Europa League – Aston Villa v RB Salzburg – Villa Park, Birmingham, Britain – January 29, 2026 Aston
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Maccabi Tel Aviv refuse away tickets for Aston Villa Europa League match

Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv will not accept any away fan tickets for their Europa League match at Aston Villa next month, even if local authorities reverse the decision to ban their supporters, they said on Monday.
The ban followed safety concerns raised by British Police, who cited potential protests outside Villa Park, following demonstrations at Israel’s recent World Cup qualifiers in Oslo and Udine.
“From hard lessons learned we have taken the decision to decline any allocation offered on behalf of away fans and our decision should be understood in that context,” Maccabi said in a statement.
“We hope that circumstances will change and look forward to being able to play in Birmingham in a sporting environment in the near future.”
Aston Villa announced the decision last week, saying they were following instructions from the Safety Advisory Group (SAG), who are responsible for issuing safety certificates for games at Villa Park.
West Midlands Police described the match as high risk, past incidents, including violent confrontations and hate crime offences involving Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ahead of a November 2024 game in Amsterdam.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described the announcement as “shameful”.
Villa are third in the Europa League standings while Maccabi Tel Aviv are 30th after two rounds.
-Reuters
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