Man United ease into last-eight showdown
SUBSTITUTE Anthony Martial secured Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s underwhelming side a comeback win against LASK on a night when Manchester United’s progress to the Europa League quarter-finals was never in doubt.
Five months on from hitting five without reply in Austria, the sides belatedly resumed battle at an empty Old Trafford with the outcome of the last-16 encounter all but certain.
LASK were far better than that strange night in March and Philipp Wiesinger’s stunner gave the fans back in Linz something to cheer about, but Jesse Lingard quickly levelled before Martial wrapped up a 2-1 win on the night and 7-1 triumph on aggregate. A quarter-final clash with Copenhagen awaits in Cologne on Monday as attention turns to the final-eight tournament in Germany, where Solskjaer will attempt to add silverware to this season’s third-place league finish.
Elsewhere, Inter Milan saw off getafe 2-0 to secure their place in the last-eight against either Bayer Leverkusen or Rangers, who play tonight with the Germans leading 3-1 on aggregate from the first leg in Glasgow back in March.
Former Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring before half-time before ex-Spurs midfielder Christian Eriksen made sure of the Serie-A giants’ progress with seven minutes to go after Jorge Molina had missed a penalty for the visitors.
Inter and the victors in Leverkusen tonight will play at the Dusseldorf Arena on Monday.