Marcus Rashford ran towards the corner flag in an empty Princes’ Park and got down on his knees to celebrate, as two seasons ago.
Another against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
In a heavyweight attack on the opening night of the organization’s stage, United retorted its astonishing feats of the 2018-19 festival by beating PSG with Rashford’s goal in the 87th minute in the 2–1 win on Tuesday.
It is a situation unsettlingly similar to that of 18 months ago, when United arrived in the exhausted French capital and 2-0 since the first leg of the last 16 teams matches. It is Rashford who achieved an unlikely 3–1 victory – and qualify for the quarter-finals, with a timeout penalty.
PSG, runner-up last season, already has a lot to go through before Qatar’s-owned team achieves its ambition to be European champions for the first time.
Lionel Messi’s Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus are already underway.
Messi scored a penalty to put Barca on track for a 5–1 win over Hungarian Ferencvaros when the Spanish team began rebuilding his reputation at Europe’s elite festival two months after an embarrassing 8–2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. last season.
Ronaldo missed Juventus after taking a positive for coronavirus last week, but the Italian champion had a worthy replacement for Alvaro Morata, the striker who scored twice in the 2-0 win at Dynamo Kyiv.
Victories of Lazio, Leipzig and Club Bruges, while Chelsea and Seville tied 0-0 and two newcomers to the organisational category, Rennes and Krasnodar, tied 1-1.
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