AGI – Roma played a game of great pride and beat Manchester United 3-2 in the second leg of the Europa League. The Giallorossi, beaten 6-2 in the first leg, come out of the cup with their heads held high. For the Red Devils in the final there will be the Spaniards of Villarreal who drew 0-0 at Arsenal and passed by virtue of the 2-1 first leg.
At the Olimpico, Roma, called to the prohibitive feat of recovering four goals, imposed themselves on a comeback: after a good Giallorossi start, the English scored with Cavani who at 39th jumped on the edge of the offside and beat Mirante.
In the second half, Roma equalized with Dzeko who headed in Pedro’s cross-shot in the 57th and took the lead with Cristante in the 60th with a shot at the edge of the post from the edge of the area. At that point the Giallorossi could reopen the qualification discourse but De Gea saves with a double save on Dzeko and Pedro and then Mkhitaryan under measure misses a goal that seems to have been made.
At that point it is Cavani again who closes every speech in the 68th position by jumping without marking on Bruno Fernandes’ cross. Fonsec’s men, who in the meantime have lost Smalling and Bruno Peres through injury, return to the lead with rookie Zalewski with a volley deflected by Matic. On 26 May the final in Gdansk will not be all English: on the other side Villarreal qualified, who came out undefeated by the Emirates with a goalless draw.
The yellow submarine in the final
Villareal somehow “ruined” the celebration of English football: in fact, there will not be four clubs from across the Channel to compete in the two finals, the Champions League and the Europa League.
The Spanish team pinned Arsenal to 0-0 and, thanks to the success achieved a week ago, access the Europa League final. The final will take place on May 26 at the Energa Gdask stadium in Gdansk, Poland.
The Champions League final will be played three days later, on 29 May, at Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stad, between Manchester City and Chelsea.
It was hoped that across the Channel in a poker of English teams, so it will not be.
However, there is satisfaction for English football at the end of this season of having brought four teams to the semi-finals of the two European club competitions and in the end three of them make it to the finals.
In any case, a cup will surely end up on British soil: the most important, the Champions League, between Chelsea and Manchester City. For the other, Manchester United must try. Also to keep the derby with Guardiola’s team on even more
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