Paris (AFP)
Manchester United, Tottenham and Roma took an option in the round of 16 of the Europa League by winning all three away on Thursday in the first leg of the 16th in the first series of matches of the evening.
In Turin, for health reasons, the Red Devils did not need to force too much to dominate Real Sociedad (4-0) thanks to their two masters to play, Bruno Fernandes (27th, 57th) and Marcus Rashford (65th) , and a youngster from Reece James (90th).
ManU has already won the Europa League, in 2017.
Like Manchester United, and for the same reasons related to the coronavirus, Tottenham played a relocated match in Budapest, against the Austrians of Wolfsberg.
With an almost similar score (4-1) thanks to goals from Son (13th), Gareth Bale (28th), Lucas Moura (34th) and Carlos Vinicius (88th).
On the Italian side, AS Roma, currently 3rd in Serie A, won 2-0 on Sporting Braga, Portugal.
But in the duel between former C1 winners, AC Milan led 1-0 then 2-1 against the Red Star in Belgrade, before being caught 2-2 at the last minute of stoppage time.
Meanwhile, during a crazy first part of the evening (35 goals in 9 matches), Leicester, 3rd in the Premier League, was content with a goalless draw in Prague against Slavia but Olympiakos made the talk. powder (4-2) against PSV Eindhoven.
Another completely unbridled match allowed the Young Boys of Bern to beat Bayer Leverkusen (4-3) while, much further east of Europe, Dynamo Zagreb won in Krasnodar (3-2) but will still have to be very vigilant in the second leg.
The second part of the evening was also promising, with as headliners from 9 p.m. (8 p.m. GMT) a Benfica-Arsenal, a Granada-Naples, a Salzburg-Villareal and especially a Lille-Ajax Amsterdam eagerly awaited by French fans.
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