Manchester United put strongly in the European League final for this season after winning victory in the first stage of the last confrontation with a sports club.
In Saint Mames in Bilbao, the final place later this month, United was astonished by the home crowd with a kind of harsh performance that was rarely seen in 2024/25, but it was usually saved to Europe when it comes out.
Three goals in the first half caused the damage of ATHLETIC Club, which was hoping to continue and raise the cup on the home of the home, with defender Daniel Vivian also refused to the hosts during that period.
Kasmiro United handed the lead, after which Bruno Fernandez scored twice, all before the break. It could have been more than that, as he hit wooden work twice and forced the home goalkeeper in many memorization.
How did the game reveal
United eventually classified them early, with the unpleasant Alejandro Grancho strike only five minutes in a sign of what would come. The Argentine wing had the ball in the network, but the flag was raised to infiltrate the VAR check in the field.
Then a talisman came from sports pressure, as Andre Yunana saved Alex Burnguer, before Yuri Berchish and Einaki Williams, he saw both the target heads. Defender United Victor Lindloff, in his path to leave the club in the summer, then played the hero while preventing a shot from Berngars in front of the line when the game approached the quarter mark.
After impressing the BilBao attack, their hosts were paid for the lack of benefit. Casemiro Deadlock broke after half an hour with a close head, but a lot of credit goes to Harry Maguire for the search ball in the box that was transferred by Manuel Ugarte.
United Var was to thank when the lead was doubled quickly. The referee refused to grant a penalty in the actual time when Vivian expelled Rasmos Holund from the balance, but he pointed to the place and produced a red card for the defender after consulting the stadium side screen.
Fernandez turned from the place, and United was against ten players, suddenly wandering.
Patrick Durgo has almost made it 3-0 in the closing stages of the first half, which he denied a strong rescue, moments before Fernandez did. Holund fought for the ball in sportslands, which she saw floating on Ugariti, who put the captain instinct to the goal instinct on the target. He maintained his composure to end what is behind the inability of Gulen Eugezabala to put United in controlling firmly, and in Dream Land.
It could have been four at four, Noser Mazrawi hit the crossbar from the edge of the box at the time of the first half stopped.
In the second half, athlete smoked that things were not equal in numbers when VAR examined the potential red card crime on Maguire to stop the isolated striker Maroan Suitudi. The referee did not act and agree to it, but the host side was so angry that the alternative goalkeeper Unai Simon was yellow on his protests.
3-0, apparently on his way out of a competition they were hoping for victory, Athletic lost their heads. Yirai Alvarez had a penetration of Grancho and the best opportunities to come to United, where Augarzabala saved Casemiro, who also went to the position after one minute.
In the growing attack and despair, the Euro 2024 Niko Williams champion searched a penalty by throwing himself on the ground in the box. Meanwhile, at the other end, Agirrezabala was keeping the result line down by depriving Fernandez of a possible trilogy, then Garnacho, separate moments.
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United has a 3-0 storey store before the second stage in Old Trafford next week. Robin Amorim expects his team to approach this game as if the tie is still flat and built on it, but it makes it a heavy favorite to advance to the final, in Bilbao on May 21.
After this cup won for the first time ever against Ajax in 2017, returning to the final against Villarreal in 2021, but the loss on fines, Tottenham Hotspur is likely to face this time. Tottenham is 3-1 in the total in the other semi-finals against Budo/Glimt.
The Chelsea European League final for Arsenal in Baku was witnessed in 2019. The only final that was overcome in two English clubs, the European Union Cup opening final, participated in 1972 against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Spears won 3-1 over the legs.
United scored more (three) goals in football more than Athletic Club (two) in all its previous European home matches combined this season.
They only scored two goals in the Premier League in five local matches since the beginning of April. However, it was now 14 goals in the last four goals in the European League, including the second station of the last 16 against Real Sociedad, both the quarter -finals against Lyon.
As he sits, this team appears simply more suitable for performance in the European competition.
This is not a great consolation for Robin Amorim, even if that raises the possibility of raising the cup in its first season in the club and securing the Champions League qualification. He and his employees and the club’s hierarchy still have a lot of work to make sure that United can also compete locally at the earliest time next season.
Amad Diallo has achieved its long -awaited return from the injury off the bench after its exclusion since February. This is a big batch with four weeks of the season, still playing, given the model that was unfortunately marginalized.
Matthijs De Ligt appeared as an alternative, after he was absent not long, while Mason Mount and Luke Shaw also continued to build the match’s intensity here.
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