Manchester United has become the first team in history to score two goals in the 120th minute of a major European match while the head of the 121st minute of Harry Maguire pulled them in the last four times.
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Harry Maguire scored in the moving seconds of the additional time to help Manchester United to snatch a place in the semi-final of the Europa League on Thursday with a 7-6 sensational victory against Olympique Lyonnais in their quarter-fin confrontation.
An exciting tie of the second leg was taken in addition after United launched an advance of two goals in the night to have returned to 2-2 after 90 minutes, with goals from Rayan Cherki and Alexandre Lacazette putting Lyon on the edge of the semi-finals in an old stunned traffe.
However, United has had its digital advantage, which was given to them after the normal counter of Corentin Tolisso normally. Maguire sent Old Trafford to delirium with his 121st minute head which sealed a 5-4 victory in the return match.
United Survive despite the waste of 2-0
It was the hosts who took an early advance, Manuel Ugarte slipped home 10 minutes after a beautiful team, before Diogo Dalot added a second just before the break to double.
Over the minutes, however, the nerves have slipped and two goals in six minutes in the second half of Tolisso and Nicolas Tagliafico pulled the match and left the link in a sensational manner.
Discarding him late from Tolisso rejected the momentum in favor of United, but the fine strike from Cherki and the coldly taken penalty from the Lacazzette apparently resolved the exhilarating competition.
Fernande’s kicks to the other end gave supporters of the house the hope of another dramatic final, before Kobbie Mainoo gathered the tie with what seemed to be the last kick, only for Maguire to have the last word.
🚨The noise in Old Trafford after the scores of Harry Maguire… 🤯🙌
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United Face Bilbao in the Europa semi-finals
United is now the first team in history to score two goals in the 120th minute in a major European match, while they are taking the last four to face athletic Bilbao.
“I felt like the fourth goal for them was a suction cup punch, but we would have likely to come back,” said Maguire to TNT Sport. “It fell for me and fortunately, I marked, it was an incredible feeling.
“An incredible game, we did really difficult work.”
Old Trafford was not a happy place this season, especially in the Premier League. For a long time as one of the most difficult places in England to visit, seven of the 14 defeats in the United League this season came to their patch at home.
Their file in Europe, however, remains much more formidable. Lyon went to Manchester, seeking to record only the second victory outside at Old Trafford during 30 games in the Europa League.
However, nothing could have prepared supporters for a night of drama on this scale.
The team that had conceded the 19 times in the Premier League this season needed a quick start to breathe life into its crucial confrontation and Ugarte converted the low cross of Alejandro Garnacho to almost lift the roof of the famous stretford of Old Trafford.
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After the second place of Dalot, Garnacho wasted a glorious opportunity to kill the competition at the start of the second half, with this expensive round as the nerves settled, a provisional defense allowing Tolisso to recover Lyon in it.
Tagliafico was then on site to withdraw from a tight angle in front of the goalkeeper of United, Andre Onana, the former teammate of the Argentinian defender in Ajax.
Tolisso’s red card, after picking up two yolks, noted Old Trafford, but it was Lyon who looked more dangerous in the first period of additional time.
Cherki is the Dangerman of Lyon and its brightness put visitors in front for the first time, before Lacazette had the replacement of the team outside.
The fall of Casemiro in the penalty surface gave Fernandes the possibility of giving United Hope, with the superb finish of the replacement the substitute for maintaining the match once again.
Maguire was not finished there, when he returned home Casemiro Cross to trigger scenes of joy that this stadium wants – the first time that there was a winner as late in the history of the Europa League.
“The only negative point that I could emphasize is that we celebrated too much when our fourth goal has entered,” said Lyon coach Paulo Fonseca. “We shouldn’t really celebrate until the end of the match.”
