Quiet evening for the big European cars in the Europa League.
Manchester United took a serious option on qualifying by correcting Real Sociedad 4-0 on Thursday February 18 in the round of 16 first leg.
Just like AS Roma and Tottentham, winners of Sporting Braga and Wolfsberg respectively.
Manchester United crushes Real Sociedad
Bruno Fernades opened the scoring on a misunderstanding of the Basque defense (27th), then doubled the lead in the second period on a well-brushed ball transmitted by Marcus Rashford (57th), before the goals of Marcus Rashford (65th) and Daniel James (90th) to seal this recital.
Although this game was played behind closed doors on neutral ground (at Juventus Stadium in Turin) due to health restrictions in Spain, these three goals allow the Mancunians to return to England with the advantage of away goals. ... and allow them to already have a foot in the round of 16 before the return match on February 25.
Like Manchester United, and for the same reasons related to Covid-19, 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.
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Milan and Leicester draw
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 was talking 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.
All results
:
Dynamo Kiev (UKR) - Club Brugge (BEL): 1 - 1
Wolfsberg (AUT) - Tottenham (ENG): 1 - 4
Real Sociedad (ESP) - Manchester United (ENG): 0 - 4
Belgrade Red Star (SRB) - AC Milan (ITA): 2 - 2
Slavia Prague (CZE) - Leicester (ENG): 0 - 0
Sporting Braga (POR) - AS Roma (ITA): 0 - 2
Krasnodar (RUS) - Dinamo Zagreb (CRO): 2 - 3
Young Boys (SUI) - Bayer Leverkusen (GER): 4 - 3
Olympiakos (GRE) - PSV Eindhoven (NED): 4 - 2
RB Salzburg (AUT) - Villarreal (ESP)
Molde (NOR) - Hoffenheim (GER)
Granada (ESP) - Naples (ITA)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR) - Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
Lille (FRA) - Ajax Amsterdam (NED)
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