Manchester United eliminated Paris Saint-Germain by winning 3-1 as a visitor thanks to a penalty awarded by video refereeing (VAR) in the final discount and marked by Marcus Rashford, on Wednesday in the second round of the Champions League.
This result allowed the English to overcome the adverse 2-0 that had suffered in the first leg and returned to plunge in a painful way to PSG, which for the third consecutive year falls in the eighth round of this tournament and, as two years ago in the Camp Nou (6-1 defeat wasted the 4-0 advantage of the first leg) seeing how he missed a cross that had left on very track in the first leg.
Romulu Lukaku ,minutes 2 and 30achieved the first two goals of Manchester United, taking advantage of two serious mistakes of the locals.
Juan Bernat had equalized in the 12th for the Parisians, who resisted with the tie won virtually until that penalty of the final discount, with which Rashford left ice cream to the team of Thomas Tuchel when he almost began to uncork the champagne.
Manchester United, which last year had been eliminated in the eighth round of this tournament by Sevilla, returns five years later to the quarterfinals of the European tournament.
After the dismissal of José Mourinho in December, the ‘Red Devils’ have resurfaced from the ashes in which they seemed to have become and this great European night is added the recent classification of the team to rooms of the Cup of England and the escalation in the classification from the Premier League to its current fourth place, within the ‘Champions zone’.
For PSG, this setback is traumatic in form and substance, as with a title in French Ligue 1 very close (17 points advantage on the second, the Lille), the Champions was the great challenge for the team and the main objective of the club at the beginning of the course.
Line Ups:
PSG:
Buffon, Kehrer, Thiago Silva, Kimpepe, Bernat, Marquinhos, Verratti, Dani Alves, Draxler, Di Maria and M’Bappé.
MANCHESTER UNITED:
De Gea, Young, Bailly, Smalling, Lindelof, Luke Shaw, Fred, Mc Tominay, Fred, Andreas, Rashford and Lukaku.
