Here is the best summary of the Europa League quarter-finals first leg
The scorers Marcus Rashford and Gerard Moreno consolidated the position from favorites to the Europa League Manchester United and Villarreal, winners of their quarter-final first leg in Granada (0-2) and Zagreb (0-1), while Roma was knocked Ajax (1-2), to which he reduced Pau López.
The other game had no winner. Neither Arsenal, nor the Slavia Prague, tie to one in their showdown in London, destined to resolve which of the two will find themselves in the Czech champion’s territory in the penultimate step of the tournament in a final match within a week, when everything will be completed with the return leg matches.
The moment of Gerard Moreno is amazing. On La Liga and in the Europa LeagueThere is no better proof than the numbers, as indisputable as those of the Spanish international striker, as he has taken part in 20 goals in his team’s last 13 matches between the two competitions: 14 he scored and six he gave up.
He was the game of the penalty that was 0-1 in Zagreb, a center from the left wing that touched Teophile’s outstretched arm, and he was the transformation of the maximum penalty, with the right cheating the opponent’s goalkeeper, who threw himself to the other side, unable to define a major scorer stop.
The 0-1, achieved on the edge of the intermediate, has a formidable value for the Villarreal, waiting to make it as good as it looks on La Cerámica’s lap, just as the most favorite of all should, based on template, history, appearance and score: the Manchester United, effective and winner with 0-2 in Granada
The continental course of Marcus RashfordIt is true that United was not enough to stay in the Champions League, but their goals shine in Europe: eight goals in ten duels between the league in which the course started and in which it is now, awakening the ambition of a group. those searches find success again.
In it is the English team that wins 0-2 against the Granada, who emerged fearlessly in a draw and with a rival of such a dimension, but whose concession in the 30th minute was fatal, no matter how much merit the long Victor Lindelof of its territory and the control and definition of it Rashford, who took three touches to make it to the semifinals ahead of Old Trafford.
In the 65th minute he was replaced by Edinson Cavani and the Granada he sought the draw, but received more penalty: the 0-2 in a penalty kick from Yan Eteki transformed by Bruno Fernandes. Rui Silva was about to stop him. Both teams regret penalty losses for the second round. United loses Harry Maguire, Scott McTominay and Luke Shaw; de Granada, Domingos Duarte and Yan Eteki.
SLAVIA PRAGA MATCH ARSENAL IN MINUTE 94 (1-1)
In London, on the other hand, Alexandre Lacazette didn’t have that much offensive shot. His failure against the rival goal when he took the victory in the second half concentrated the lament of the Arsenal in front of Slavia Prague, relieved at first by the appearance of Nicholas Pepe came to the rescue 1-0 in the 87th minute, but then disappointed as the clash ended with a 1-1 lead for Holes in the 94th minute.
And Lacazette He had to drive 30 meters, tackle the most complex football -the definition- and provoke the individual duel with the goalkeeper, solved with a shot with effect on the team, perhaps too tight in such a favorable situation, because he crashed it on the crosshead, Pepe was in a rush in the fight with the defender when he hit the ball before the rival goalkeeper took off.
It was 1-0. 87th minute. Even that wasn’t enough for the Arsenal, because Holes, in time, in the far post, in a corner, after a rebound in the heart of the field, he never lost confidence in a draw that the Czech champion proposes with at least the same options – or more – than his rival for the return leg in one week to your country.
PAU LÓPEZ RELAY TO ROME IN AMSTERDAM (1-2)
In Amsterdam, while in addition to the volley of Ibanez in the last moments that the comeback of the Roma With 1-2 the difference was made by two goalkeepers on two key moments, a few minutes apart, when the Italian block was most committed, 1-0 against and against the abyss of 2-0.
At the front of the scoreboard with 1-0 out Davy Klaasen at minute 40, the Ajax went off the occasion of 2-0, with a bad penalty thrown by a remarkable Dusan Tadic in everything else and repelled by Pau Lopez, at 1-1, when his young goalkeeper, Kjell Scherpen, made a resounding foul by Pilgrims
It wasn’t too disturbing a throw, with the inside of the right foot, on his stick, on his hands actually, on a stretched chest of drawers, but he escaped to finish in goal and put his team on the ropes in play off. Couldn’t do anything, as early as 87, before the whiplash’s IbanezThe 1-2 for the Roma, which refers to the semi-finals. The return shipment is at your home.