UCL: Ighalo Not Listed In Man Utd Win As Four Teams Progress To The Next Round
By Omolagba Oluwayemi
Chelsea, Sevilla, Barcelona and Juventus all secured their second round tickets with wins.
Oliver Giroud's 90+1 minute goal was enough for the blues to book their ticket for next round. Although they would've have still qualified with the scores at 1-1 after Sevilla's victory away at FC Krasnodar.
Sevilla's progress to the second round means they won't win the Europa League this season. Sevilla who have won 7 of the previous edition of the Europa League to become the most successful club there will look to take a short at the most coveted club trophy (Champions League) this season all thanks to El Haddadi's 90+5 minutes goal.
Chelsea and Sevilla will now battle it out for who will top Group E.
In Group F, Erling Haaland's brace and a Jadon Sancho goal was enough to hand Dortmund a 3-0 win over Club Brugge. With the win, Dortmund are now one point clear off second place Lazio.
In the other group game, Lazio ran out 3-1 winner over Zenit in Rome. Ciro Immobile (twice) and Marco Parolo scored for Lazio while Artem Dzyuba got Zenit's only goal. With the defeat, Zenit are out of contention for the next round while one more victory for Lazio in the remaining two group games means they will play in the next round.
A Bruno Fernandes brace, Marcos Rashford penalty and Daniel James 90th minutes goal was enough for Manchester United to secure their second home win and third overall win in this year's UEFA Champions League Group G.
It's a night of revenge for Ole Gunnar Solskjær's side who shockingly lost to Istanbul Basaksehir in Turkey fortnight ago.
Bruno Fernandes opened the scoring as early as the 7th minutes and added his second of the night in the 19th minutes. Marcos Rashford made it 3 for United from the spot in the 35th minutes. Deniz Turuc reduced the deficit for the visitors in the 75th minutes before Daniel James restored United's 3 goal lead in the 90th minutes.
Former Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo remained on the bench for the entire duration.
Meanwhile in Paris, Neymar's 11th minute penalty goal was enough for PSG to see off a hard fighting RB Leipzig. With the win, PSG are second on the log, 3 points adrift leader, Manchester United and level on point with 3rd place Leipzig.
Barcelona without Lionel Messi won comfortably away in Ukraine. The Catalunya will have Sergino Dest, Braithwaite (twice) and Antonio Griezmann to thank for the 4 goals scored. Marc-Andre ter Stegen also kept a clean sheet in the process. With the win Barcelona are through to the next round.
In the other group game, Juventus dug deep into second minutes of additional time to get a winner against a resilient Ferencvaros. Juventus earlier fell behind in the 19th minutes when Myrto Uzini gave the visitors the lead but Ronaldo level things for the Turin side 35th minutes. Juventus are also through to the next round but will have to battle Barcelona for the top spot in group H.
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