Two football games, two tense nights in Manchester and Rome.
Close contests like these keep live betting as interesting as ever. However, at the end of the day, there can only be two winners.
Manchester United 1-2 (1-2 on agg.) Sevilla
The previous two winners of the Europa League could not be separated until Wissam Ben Yedder entered the fray.
He scored twice within five minutes—the first just 87 seconds after his arrival— and Sevilla were in the quarter-finals.
Romelu Lukaku continued his fine form and pulled one back, but it was too little, too late.
A sucker-punch for out-of-sorts United and Sevilla’s first ever win on English soil.
This was also proof that a goalless draw away from home in a European first leg is a dangerous result.
United, playing their first Champions League knockout match in four years, will learn from this.
Sevilla will relish it.
AS Roma 1-0 (2-2 on agg.) Shakhtar Donetsk
To prove the point, Roma lost the first leg but did score an away goal.
And it proved crucial.
Edin Dzeko was the match winner in the Stadio Olimpico just after the break and the spirited Ukrainians were unable to reply.
After Dzeko’s goal—his first ever in the tournament knockout stage—the Giallorossi went on to take control, and the late dismissal of visiting defender Ivan Ordets made a hard job even harder.
Their frustration was evident when a ball boy was pushed over the advertising hoardings, prompting a furious reaction from Roma players.
Shakhtar’s wait for a first quarter-final berth since 2011 goes on.
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