Diallo took six minutes to score

Milan brought a semi-reserve squad to Manchester: due to injuries of varying severity, Stefano Pioli lost not only Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but also left a whole group of players in Italy, on whom he usually relied.

Only five field players settled on the guests' bench, among whom only Sandro Tonali and Sama Castillejo had permanent practice at the highest level.

Nevertheless, the Rossoneri took away a draw from Old Trafford, having obtained it already in stoppage time.

After a corner, Simon Kjer hit Dean Henderson's goal and interrupted his opponent's streak of 503 clean minutes.

Thus, the defender compensated for the injustice of the first half.

In the opening of the two-round confrontation, the referees twice canceled the exact strikes of the Italians, then finding offside in Rafael Leau, then looking out with the help of the VAR system the millimeter contact of Frank Cassie's hand with the ball.

The youngest team in Serie A continued to look no worse than one of the leaders of the Premier League.

But they would say much less unfairly about Milan if Kier had not excelled.

The increased attention to the owners was explained by the shrewd replacement of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, which happened during the break.

Entering the field of Amada Diallo instead of the injured Anthony Martial turned into a goal in five minutes.

Prior to that, in matches for Manchester United, where the Frenchman spent a few minutes, he did not hit on someone else's goal at all.

Here, at the age of 18 years and 243 days, he became the youngest non-British footballer of Manchester to have distinguished himself in the European arena.

By the way, the forward not only overshadowed the terrible first half in the performance of the hosts' attack group - Bruno Fernandes, Daniel James and Mason Greenwood did not create a moment - but also made them forget about the captain's mistake.

Harry McGuire missed the net from the goal line in the 38th minute after a corner kick - and, according to the metric of expected goals, he screwed up the moment by 0.91 goals!

Defenders beat Dynamo Kiev

Mircea Lucescu's team was so afraid of Villarreal's strikers that they did not keep track of the defenders.

Both balls of the Spaniards were carried out by representatives of the destruction group, and different ones.

This has never happened in the club's European history in 142 performances.

Therefore, on Thursday evening, Pau Torres and Raul Albiol wrote their names on the tablets.

The latter did it twice: the meeting with Dynamo became the hundredth for the veteran in the international arena.

In the 21st century, of the Spanish defenders, only Sergio Ramos, Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol succeeded.

In general, the meeting was divided into two parts.

At the start, the Kievites put a lot of pressure, which limited the team of Unai Emery in almost all initiatives.

However, as soon as Dynamo skipped, physically sagged a little and stopped moving into active pressure, the initiative passed to Villarreal.

It was used by the guests, however, uncomplicated, reducing the attacking work to sheds and throws the ball to Gerard Moreno.

He justified the strategy by making an assist pass.

Thus, the striker was involved in 12 of 25 goals in 11 club matches in 2021.

The Kievans tried to strike at the most vulnerable zones of the Spaniards, the flanks.

However, Villarreal, due to the actions of Etienne Capu and Manu Trigueros, quickly secured the guests from trouble.

Rangers continue to score away

Steven Gerrard's team won the championship in Scotland this week - and again tried on gold medals for the first time in ten years.

Apparently, this affected the preparation of the Rangers for the Europa League match, as the guests lacked concentration in the opening of the Prague meeting.

Slavia's quick goal reminded why journalists made it a rule to call the Czechs the most sincere and open team of the tournament.

For the Glasgow footballers, the ball was the 14th conceded in the continental season, which is kind of an anomaly.

Indeed, in the national championship, the Rangers conceded only 12 times in 34 rounds.

However, even before the break, the guests leveled the score thanks to Philip Helander.

Thus, the Scots extended a unique streak, excelling in each of the away meetings on the international stage in the season.

Perhaps there would have been more accurate hits from Gerrard's team.

However, Slavia used the tactics of a minor foul to frustrate the opponents' promising attacks a lot and often.

Ajax made the result in half an hour

Keeping in mind that they will play on an artificial pitch in the return leg, the Amsterdamites did everything to go to Switzerland with a comfortable advantage.

And they spent only 30 minutes on solving the problem.

Having studied all the weaknesses of the Young Boys' defense at the starting hour, Eric ten Haga's team then systematically hacked it three times.

Dusan Tadic stood out in particular, having distinguished himself in the fourth match of "Ajax" in a row.

The ball became the tenth of the season for the Serb - and, if we exclude the penalty, no one among his teammates has yet scored.

In general, it was the hosts who controlled the course of the confrontation and owned the ball - Maarten Stekelenburg practically did not come into play.

And if he did jumps, it was only in order not to let the heated muscles freeze.

In 90 minutes, the Swiss struck only a blow - and he went past the alignment, while Ajax put more than a third of 21 shots right in the frame.

Fonseca defeated former team

The ex-mentor of Shakhtar Donetsk is ideally prepared for the game with his former team-mates.

Three of Roma's central defenders clearly threw balls behind the backs of their opponents, who were located as high as possible in the defense line.

Pedro, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Lorenzo Pellegrini promptly burst into free space, which led to dangerous moments.

Once the Donetsk footballers were saved by an offside position, but in the case of the Italian midfielder's goal, even the judges were unable to help out the guests.

According to the idea, such a high landing of the defenders should have been insured by the Brazilian central midfielders.

But Marlos, Maicon and Patrick were dismissive of the action to tackle the ball even in their best years.

In an unusual triangle, where the role of a holding midfielder was alien to any of the legionnaires, none of them was at all puzzled by destruction.

Another cool find for Fonseca is no pressure.

Roma footballers simply did not move into the depths of the field, keeping slim and compact.

At the same time, they did not interfere with creative partners and did not turn out to be vulnerable when the ball was lost.

That is why Shakhtar had no free space for 90 minutes - and was left without goals scored at Stadio Olimpico.

The Italians, on the other hand, found more and more free zones at the gate of Anatoly Trubin, which ultimately led to the defeat of the Pitmen by Stefan El Shaaravi and Gianluca Mancini.

Granada goalkeeper gave an assist

In the match, perhaps the least popularized participants of the 1/8 finals, special attention should be paid to the first of the two goals scored by Granada.

It is not even so much the exact blow of Jorge Molina that is important as the transfer that preceded it.

The goal pass was authored by Rui Silva, the Portuguese goalkeeper of the Spaniards.

The ball, carried almost a hundred meters away, fell exactly on the striker's foot and allowed the hosts to defeat Molde.

Spanish goalkeepers have not played assists for 14 years.

Exactly since Andres Palop in the UEFA Cup final helped Adriano Correi stand out against Espanyol.

The goalkeeper's efforts helped Sevilla win the trophy after that meeting.

On Thursday, Rui Silva pushed Granada to move in the same winning direction.

In the 78th minute, the success was developed by Roberto Soldado, who took advantage of the mistake made by the Norwegian goalkeeper Andreas Linde and set the final score.

However, Molde has a weighty argument justifying not the most confident actions in defense.

By the time the defenders opened up the shooting position for Soldado, the team were playing with ten men due to the sending off of Martin Ellingsen.

And I really could not rebuild after the loss of the midfielder.

Kane rewrote another record

The double against Dynamo Zagreb once again demonstrated Harry Kane's indispensability for Tottenham.

In Jose Mourinho's system, the striker, performing a huge amount of work, is ideally integrated into the counter-attacking model.

As a result, even with the second number, the London club is guaranteed to create several chances per match with Kane's feet.

And with the help of a forward, he implements them.

In the match with the Balkans, Harry exemplarily approached the conversion of opportunities into goals - and scored the 25th and then 26th goals of the season.

According to this indicator, he has no equal among the Premier League players.

As part of Tottenham, the forward repeated the achievement of Martin Chivers.

He scored eight each season on the continental arena from 1971 to 1974.

Kane has the same number in the 2020/21 Europa League.

However, the modern hero of North London will definitely have at least another match at his disposal - the return leg in Zagreb.

Judging by the result at White Hart Lane, Harry will also play in the quarterfinals.

Arsenal climbed out of the hole

Until the 80th minute, Mikel Arteta's team diligently buried itself.

After a bouncy start in Piraeus, which included Martin Edegaard's debut goal for the club (it took the northerner only two shots on target for this), Arsenal were confidently driving the meeting to a victorious denouement.

And the speed in this process delighted the eyes of the fans.

However, in the 58th minute, the British made another individual mistake, leading to a goal from Olympiacos.

As in the last meeting of the Europa League, Dani Ceballos made a misfire, which Youssef El-Arabi did not fail to take advantage of.

For Arsenal, dips that turn into conceded goals are taking the form of a trend.

With the only difference that in the Premier League, mistakes of this nature were previously made by David Louise.

On the international stage, Ceballos joined him.

Nevertheless, the collective from North London avoided a sensation with a negative connotation.

At first, Willian found the head of Gabriel Magalhaes with an accurate pass, who issued an assist in the fourth match in a row.

And then Mohamed El-Neni distinguished himself: released by Arteta in the 82nd minute, the Egyptian celebrated his success after just 180 seconds on the field.

It is curious that all Arsenal's balls did not follow from the logic of the episodes: according to the metric of expected goals, the shots knocked out 0.02, 0.04 and 0.01 xG!