GETS HIGH FIVE
It’s a Deli feast for United’s new boy
behind him in anticipation keeping his effort out.
Referee Serdar Gozubuyuk sent off Deli and gave United a penalty, only for play to be held up for five minutes while VAR reviewed his decision.
Gozubuyuk stuck by his red-card decision after reviewing footage of the incident on a monitor by the touchline. The delay was caused as the VAR officials checked to see if the ball was going in when it was handled.
Deli finally walked and Fernandes showed ice-cool nerves as he did a little hop and a skip in his run up to send Mignolet the wrong way on 27 minutes. Now it was just a of question of how many United would score and James missed a decent chance before Fernandes showed his class again to help make it 2-0 on 34 minutes. He picked out Mata’s run to the back post with a precise cross and the Spaniard centred it for Ighalo to score from five yards. Ighalo pulled up his shirt to reveal a tribute to his sister. Fernandes was also at the heart of United’s third a minute before half-time as he dispossessed the careless Odilon Kossounou, fed Fred, who teed up Scott McTominay to score from the edge of the area. With the game won, Fernandes was given an early night after 65 minutes to keep him fresh for Everton on Sunday and his replacement Jesse Lingard made the fourth for Fred.
Bruges lost possession just outside their box and Lingard pulled the ball back on the left for Fred to slot home nine minutes from time for 4-0. Then, in the last minute of stoppage time, Fred added the fifth with a fine shot from the edge of the box.
MANCHESTER UNITED (4-2-3-1): Romero 6; Wan-Bissaka 6, Maguire 7, Bailly 6, Shaw 7; McTominay 7 (Greenwood 72, 6), Fred 7; James 6 (Chong 46, 6), Fernandes 9 (Lingard 65, 7), Mata 8; Ighalo 7.
Goals: Fernandes 27 pen, Ighalo 34, McTominay 41, Fred 82, 90.
BRUGES (4-3-3): Mignolet 7; Mata 6 (Mitrovic 62, 5), Mechele 5, Deli 2, Ricca 4; Kossounou 4, Vanaken 5, Rits 5 (De Ketelaere 79, 5); Tau 6 (Diatta 62, 5), Okereke 6, De Cuyper 6. Sent off: Deli 22.
CELTIC crashed out of the Europa League after Odsonne Edouard appeared to have given them a second-leg lifeline.
Edouard’s 83rdminute penalty cancelled out Copenhagen’s opener and looked set to take the tie into extra time.
But Neil Lennon’s side were hit by two late sucker punches to crash out.
Pep Biel restored the lead for the Danes and Dame N’Doye capped a miserable night for the SPL leaders in the 88th minute.
Hopes were high inside Celtic Park after the first leg finished 1-1 but, after missing a succession of good first-half chances, Lennon’s side contributed to their own downfall five minutes after the restart.
The home side were left facing an uphill battle when Jozo Simunovic’s blunder led to the visitors’ first goal.
Michael Santos pounced onto the defender’s dreadful back pass to cross before reacting first after Christopher Jullien attempted to clear.
Celtic substitute Leigh Griffiths was denied by a superb save before Edouard brought Celtic back into the match after a clear handball resulted in the penalty.
But they were carved open as the visitors wrapped up the win.
Istanbul Basaksehir stunned Sporting Lisbon, winning
4-1 in Turkey and going through 5-4 on aggregate, while FC Porto lost to Bayer Leverkusen.
They will be joined by Basle, Roma, Inter Milan,Wolfsburg, LASK, Getafe, Sevilla and Shakhtar Donetsk.