Alexandre Lacazette and Arsenal did not shine against Slavia Prague on Thursday in the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League.

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The logic was (almost) respected Thursday evening, during the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

Manchester United, AS Roma and Villareal, victorious away, took an option on qualifying for the semi-finals.

At home, Arsenal thought they had done the hardest against Slavia Prague by finally finding the opening in the 86th minute by the former Lille native Nicolas Pépé.

But the Gunners conceded the equalizer signed Tomas Holes in added time (1-1).

The Mancuniens of Paul Pogba, winners of the event in 2017, went to win over the Spaniards of Granada (2-0) thanks to the achievements of Marcus Rashford (31st) and the Portuguese Bruno Fernandes who converted a penalty ( 90th).

The Andalusian partners of the former Lyonnais Maxime Gonalons play their first quarter-final of a European competition, for their very first participation.

Roma not unhappy

For their part, the Italians of AS Rome who obtained a victory slightly against the course of the game on the lawn of Ajax Amsterdam.

The Romans had yet conceded the first goal on a realization of Davy Klaassen (39, 1-0).

Then shortly after the restart, everything changed: Tadic missed a penalty for the Dutch (53rd) and four minutes later Lorenzo Pellegrini equalized taking advantage of an error by goalkeeper Scherpen (1-1, 57th).

AS Roma took the advantage by Roger Ibanez, up close (2-1, 87), on a volley after a chest control.

The Spaniards of Villarreal won on the lawn of Dinamo Zagreb thanks to a single goal before the break of the international Gerard Moreno on a penalty awarded for a hand from the French defender and former Stéphanois Kevin Théophile-Catherine (1-0, 44e).

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