Wards Vincenzo Montella defeated the "red devils" at Old Trafford and obtained a ticket to the quarterfinals (2-1).

In the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, the English Manchester United and the Spanish Sevilla came together face to face, in the first meeting at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan the teams were not able to print each other's gates, leaving all the most interesting for the return match. Jose Mourinho released from the first minutes of a fairly attacking squad, and also resorted to rotation in the center of the field, firing Fellaini, Pogba and Maktominey remained on the bench. Vincenzo Montella also used the best at the moment, leaving again in reserve the best scorer of the team in the Champions League Vissam Ben Yedder.

The first half of the meeting turned out to be rather boring, the teams relatively often pierced the goal, but these blows, in principle, did not carry any threat. The Mancunians frankly disappointed in the reporting match, acting extremely passively, as if in the first match they beat the Andalusians without problems and the second meeting was just a formality, but in reality everything was wrong, and the hosts had to be hammered, but they seemed to have another opinion on this matter. The guests also bribed their brave game on someone else's half of the field, "nerviontsy" did not hesitate to punch at the gate and it was assumed that sooner or later they can count on achieving success.

As for the dangerous moments, then in the first half, there was only one - Fellaini beat with Sanchez and powerfully struck in the near corner, but Rico was on the alert and moved the ball to the corner. Apart from this episode, goalkeepers did not have to seriously enter the game, the teams conducted many promising attacks, but each time the match participants lacked something in the final stage. Thus, the teams could not score at least one goal in the third in a row and went on a break with just "zero".

After the resumption of the game, the Spaniards looked again preferable to the active actions in the foreign half of the field, but the first dangerous moment was created not by them, but the hosts - Lingard received a pass from Lukaku, turned with the ball and struck the goal, after which Rico again reliably played on the line. After that, the game calmed down again, again neither one nor the other gate had any sharpness. In the second half of the half, Montella decided to refresh his team's game ahead, releasing Ben Yedder instead Muriel, this substitution turned out to be key in the reporting match.

Just two minutes after entering the field, in the 74th minute, Ben Yedder signed at the gate of De Gea - Sarabia gave a penetrating pass into the penalty area on Vissama, and he just punched in the near corner - 0: 1. And four minutes later, the forward "buried" the hopes of Manchester United on the way to the quarterfinals, taking a double - Banega executed the pitch from the corner, Lengle threw the ball to the far post, and Ben Yedder forwarded him to the goal - 0: 2. Until the end of the match, the mankunians were honored for a goal of prestige - Matic threw the ball at Lukaku after filing a corner, and Romelu hammered the ball into the net - 1: 2.

Before the end of the fight, the "red devils" tried to create a semblance of a final assault, but none of this happened, the hosts, on the contrary, could miss another goal, the goal of De Gea was threatened by Correa and twice Ben Yedder, but the ball was not destined for the third time to fly into Manchester United gate. As a result, Sevilla won a legitimate victory over Manchester United and for the first time in its history made it to the quarter finals of the Champions League. And Jose Mourinho lost to himself, choosing a timid tactic for the most important duel, it's interesting to hear what justification for the failure of his team will find a Portuguese.

The draw for the 1/4 finals of the Champions League will be held on Friday, March 16, starting at 14:00 Kyiv time.

Manchester United - Sevilla 1: 2 (first match - 0: 0) Goals: Lukaku, 84 - Ben Yedder, 74, 78 Manchester United: De Hea - Valencia (Mata, 77), Smalling, Bayi, Young Fellaini (Pogba, 60), Matic - Lingard (Martial, 77), Sanchez, Rushford - Lukaku Sevilla: Rico - Mercado, Kjaer, Lengle, Escudero - Nzonzi, Banega - Sarabia, Vazquez (Pizarro, 87), Correa (Gais, 89) - Muriel (Ben Yedder, 72) Warnings: Rushford - Banega, Ben Yedder, Correa, Sarabia.