Manchester United again hit Athletic Bilbao and will play the Europa League uefa final
Manchester United thrashed 4 to 1 to Athletic Bilbao in Old Traffordit was imposed comfortably in the global of the semifinals and will play the grand finale of the UEFA Europa League.
After the triumph by 3 to 0 of the first leg in San Mamés, the Red Devils could not replicate the performance at home, but reacted after the goal of Mikel Jauregizar And, with so many of Mason Mount (Doublet), Casemiro and Rasmus Hojlund In the second half, they got a global result of 7-1getting into the definition, where They will face Tottenham (5-1 to Bodo/Glimt of Norway), on May 21, just on the Athletic court.
To those directed by Ruben AmorimTenths in the Premier League, the game cost them. The brilliant first time of San Mamés, in which they took the advantage of three goals (one from Casemiro and two from Bruno Fernandes), guided the way, but little of that was seen this Thursday in Old Trafford, where the Basque cast showed a lot of personality to play in the midst of adversity.
The set of Ernesto Valverdedecimated by the absences of the brothers Nico and Iñaki Williams and Oihan Sancet, had a couple of situations in Álex Berenguer to open the score, but forgave, like Alejandro Garnacho, who squandered two very clear occasions in the initial stage.
But what Athletic began to insinuate with tenure, trying to drown the premises, he succeeded from an error at the exit. Harry Maguire was wrong and, in a second auction, Jauregizar hung it from the upper left angle of Onana and stamped 1 to 0 in 31 minutes.
Of great campaign in LaLiga (it is fourth, below Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid), Bilbao maintained its offensive position in the complement. While it cost him in the final stretch of the court, the team today dressed in blue took over and hinted at much of the night, showing more ambition than his rival, which did not suffer also comfortable defending a few meters from his arch.
And with the passage of the minutes, that lack of offensive resources, logical for a team that did not have its greatest references in attack, began to translate into nervousness. And that nervousness, with changes that did not work, flowed into The goal of Mason Mount, who received from Leny Yoro in the area, made a great taco oriented control and defined far from the goalkeeper (72 ‘).
Mount’s shot, former Chelsea, put the lock to the tie. Because the visiting illusion collapsed, like the legs of a team that made an important effort, and on top Casemiro, with an excellent header after a center of Bruno Fernandes, scored 2-1 in the game and 5-1 in the global (78 ‘).
And two more blows to put definitive figures to the bulky marker: Good overflow to the line of admitted amad diallo and touches the Rasmus Hojlund (86 ‘) and tremendous auction from far from Mount (91’)in a completely broken and finished encounter.
Without playing as in the first leg, without being superior to Athletic Bilbao, but with some last 20 minutes furious, in pure effectivenessManchester United rounded an excellent series and got into the Grand Final of the UEFA Europa League, as in 2017, an edition in which he bent Ajax in Stockholm, and in 2021, when Villarreal stayed with the title in an anthological penalty batch.
His rival will be an old acquaintance, Tottenham, who shattered the illusion of Bodo/Glimt and all of Norway. The final between the fifteenth and the sixteenth of the Premier League will take place on Wednesday, May 21 at the Stadium of San Mamés, of Bilbao, which remained at the gates of the definition and will witness the new champion of the continental contest.
Before that game, which will define its season, the Red Devils will play for the championship against West Ham and Chelsea, which on 28/5 will play the UEFA Conference League final.
