In the second leg of the eighth Champions League final, the English Manchester United and the Spanish Sevilla met, in the first meeting at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuán the teams were unable 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 the best team scorer in the Champions League Vissam Ben Yedder.
The first half of the meeting was pretty boring, the team relatively often punched on goal, but these blows, in principle, no threat was not borne. Mancunians frankly disappointed in the reporting match, acting in a passive mode, if in the first match they beat the Andalusians without problems and the second meeting was just a formality, but in reality everything was not so, and the hosts had to be sure to score, but they, it seems, experience a different opinion on this matter. The guests also bribed their brave game on someone else's half of the field, the Nerovians 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, in the first half, there was only one - Fellaini beat 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 that conducted many promising attacks, but each time the match participants were missing something in the final stage. Thus, the teams could not score at least one goal already in the third half in a row and went on a break with just "zeroes".
After the resumption of the game, the Spaniards looked again, preferring to act on the wrong side of the field, but the first dangerous moment of creation was not 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 the 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 after four minutes forward "buried" the hopes of Manchester United on the way out 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 the goal of prestige - Matic threw the ball at Lukaku after filing a corner, and Romela hammered The ball in 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, Seville won a legitimate victory over Manchester. 1/3 finals of the Champions League. And Jose Mourinho lost to himself, choosing a timid tactic for the most important duel, it is interesting to hear what justifications for the failure of his team will find the Portuguese.