It continues to rain goals at Espanyol, where the home side are now 6-0 up against nine-man Ludogorets. Facundo Ferreyra has scored their latest. In other red card-related news, Wolfsberger have a) conceded a penalty; b) lost Nemanja Rnic to a second yellow card; and c) gone 1-0 down to Istanbul Basaksehir after Edin Visca converted from the spot.
GOAL! Rangers 2-0 Porto (Davis, 73 mins
And another one!The ball is pulled back to Davis, 20 yards out, and his low shot deflects off a defender’s boot, wrong-foots the goalkeeper and arrows into the net!
“Peter Oh must bestarving because Manchego Ungai (Cheese Eel ) sounds stomach turning, ”notes Alex Amponsah.
Marcus Rashford comes off,after scoring one and missing about half a dozen. He gets a standing ovation anyway, for being threatening and exciting and fun. Pereira is on. Meanwhile, Gent have taken a 2-1 lead at Wolfsburg, with Laurent Depoitre scoring their second.
“I must be hungrybecause the fixture looks like Manchego Unagi v Marzipan Belgrave to me, ”writes Peter Oh, as United take off Fred and bring on James Garner. Meanwhile Fazio, whose own-goal had given Borussia Monchengladbach the lead, has just equalized for Roma.
Wolves’ penalty misswas their first in over two years, ending a run of 14 successive successful spot-kicks.
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United have a free kick, in handy shooting range.For some reason Fred takes it rather than Rashford, and he sends the ball looping down the middle of goal. Luckily it was high enough that the keeper had to turn it over the bar, just to be safe, though the subsequent corner is wasted.
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In other news,Espanyol are four up against nine-man Ludogorets, Victor Campuzano scoring their latest, while Gent have equalized at Wolfsburg, Roman Yaremchuk making it 1-1.
GOAL! Manchester United 3-0 Partizan Belgrade (Rashford, 49 mins)
Marcus Rashford doesn’t miss!It’s a long ball from right to left, that Young cushions back into Rashford’s path, and this time he lashes it into the top corner with his left foot from (yards!)
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It’s saved!Neves takes, but the goalkeeper goes the right way and palms it away to safety!
Penalty to Wolves!Neto is brought down, the referee points to the spot, and Wolves will now have a great chance to take the lead.
The second halves are under way!News of further goals and Rashford misses to follow.
Half-time reading:A little earlierCeltic beat Lazio
Half-time scores:Manchester United are stuffing Partizan 2- 0, though it could have been five. Don’t get too excited, though: Partizan are a humdrum fourth in the Serbia SuperLiga, 10 points behind the runaway leaders, Red Star.Rangersv Porto and Wolves v Slovan Bratislava are both goalless.
It’s not been all good for United.Soumah leads a break for Partizan, who have four forwards bearing down on two defenders, but his pass is rubbish, destroys all momentum and ruins everything. The visitors have had a few opportunities to punish United on the break, but have taken none of them.
Paulinho (not thatone, unless you’re thinking of The 26 – year-old who plays for Braga, in which case that one) has given Braga a 2-1 lead at home to Besiktas, and Roma’s beanpole center-back Federico Fazio has scored at the wrong end to give Borussia Monchengladbach a 1-0 advantage. Meanwhile at Old Trafford, Rashford has missed yet another chance. This time he was played through on the left of the area, but his attempt to chip the goalkeeper failed when the goalkeeper stayed on his feet, rendering himself unchippable. He was punished for this when Rashford’s attempted finish hit him in an extremely painful place.
Ludogorets are down to nine!Jacek Goralski has collected his second booking of the evening, and Espanyol are sniffing a stuffing here! In probably related news, Matias Vargas has scored from the penalty spot to make it 3-0.
GOAL! Manchester United 2-0 Partizan Belgrade (Martial, (mins)
Get out your bumper book of superlatives, Tony Martial has scored an absolute stonker !!!The build-up is a little lucky, the ball deflecting to the Frenchman when Greenwood charged down Urosevic’s attempted clearance, but his first touch is sublime, his second to jink inside Ostojic’s sliding challenge was absolutely wondrous, the next takes it away from Pavlovic, and another prods it past Stojkovic and into the corner!
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GOOOAAALLL!Besiktas have equalized at Braga. Yes they have. Tyler Boyd, the New Zealand-born, USA-representing winger, as scored it. Meanwhile at Old Trafford, Natcho has been booked for fouling McTominay, who placed his body between ball and rival player cunningly to make the foul inevitable.
A little goal update roundup thingyfor you now:Espanyolhave doubled their lead over 10 – manLudogorets, Lluís López with their second. Meanwhile João Victor has givenWolfsburga 1-0 lead at home toGent, Serkan Asan’s own-goal has givenKrasnodara 1-0 lead at home toTrabzonspor, and there have been a couple of penalties: Wahbi Khazri, once of Sunderland, has givenSt Etiennethe lead atOleksandriya, and Steven Berghuis, once of Watford, has givenFeyenoordthe advantage at home toYoung Boys.
GOAL! Manchester United 1-0 Partizan Belgrade (Greenwood, 22 mins)
Manchester Unitedtake the lead! Rashford pokes the ball across the edge of the area and Greenwood runs onto it on the right side of goal, jinks back onto his left foot, past Miletic’s feeble attempt to make any difference whatsoever, and then with the goalkeeper expecting the textbook finish across goal he shoots inside the near post!
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There has beenone goal in tonight’s late games, and it came in the top-of-the-table Group H six-pointer, where Espanyol took the lead against Ludogorets in the fourth minute through Oscar Melendo. Ludogorets have since had a man sent off, Rafael Forster getting his marching orders for a professional foul, so things are looking very good indeed for the Spaniards. Meanwhile at Old Trafford, another Rashford miss – this time he’s thumped a right-foot volley over the bar.
Another Rashford miss!Mata is played into the area, befuddles Pavlovic with a fine turn and slides the ball inside to Rashford, but from close range his shot hits the keeper! That was an absolute sitter. Though it was the Partizan goalkeeper, Stojkovic, who was sitting down, as he made that stop.
Incredible miss!Wan-Bissaka’s cross deflects off the heel of a defender and rolls perfectly into the path of Rashford, who sidefoots it back across goal and just wide of the post! United should have taken the lead there. It is, incidentally, absolutely ratting down in Manchester.
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Lucky escape dept:Another goal has been disallowed at Old Trafford . This time Sadiq was offside, but a fair bit more narrowly, before he lifted the ball over Romero from the edge of the area.
At Old Trafford,Martial tucks the ball into the corner of the net, but sadly he was a couple of yards offside. Meanwhile, news from Glasgow:
Rangers: McGregor, Tavernier, Helander, Goldson, Barisic, Davis, Jack, Kamara, Barker, Morelos, Kent.Subs: Edmundson, Defoe, Ojo, Foderingham, Flanagan, Aribo, Arfield.
Porto:Marchesin, Manafa, Pepe, Marcano, Alex Telles, Mbemba, Danilo Pereira, Corona, Uribe, Otavio, Tiquinho Soares.Subs: Bruno Costa, Diaz, Nakajima, Ze Luis, Saravia, Diogo Costa, Silva.
Referee:Davide Massa (Italy).
Hello world!A couple of other line-ups that might be of interest:
Wolves:Rui Patricio, Dendoncker, Coady, Kilman, Doherty , Neves, Joao Moutinho, Ruben Vinagre, Traore, Jimenez, Pedro Neto.Subs:Vallejo, Bennett, Cutrone, Jonny, Ruddy,
Perry, Saiss.
Slovan Bratislava:Greif, Juri Medvedev, Abena, Bozhikov, Vernon De Marco, Bajric, de Kamps, Rafael Ratao, Ibrahim, Drazic, Sporar.Subs:Ljubicic, Daniel, Sukhotsky, Nono, Holman, Sulla, Trnovsky.
Referee:Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands).
Celtic qualify from Group E with two games to spare.
Some notable results there for LASK and Standard Liège in particular. After the wins for Cluj and (Celtic) , this is what it means for Group E.
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