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Europa League: all easy for Manchester United, Lyon and Eintracht Frankfurt, Mourinho out on penalties
Defined the eight teams qualified for the Europa League quarterfinals
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In addition to Lazio and Athletic Bilbao, Manchester United, Lyon, Tottenham, Eintracht Frankfurt, Bodo Glimt and Glasgow Rangers will also break out the pass for the Europa League quarterfinals.
At Old Trafford, the Red Devils overwhelmed Real Sociedad thanks to Bruno Fernandes’ hat-trick (including two on penalties) and Dalot’s goal sealed in the midst of recovery. It was of little use, the goal scored from the penalty spot by Oyarzabal.
A clear success also for Lyon, which after the 3-1 win in the first leg, rifled a peremptory 4-0 win over Steaua Bucharest, for an overall result of 7-1. Absolute stars of the evening were Mikautadze and Nuamah with two goals apiece.
Eintracht Frankfurt also made the field factor count, crushing Francesco Farioli’s Ajax with a heavy 4-1 win. The German outfit brought it close already in the first half thanks to goals from Bahoya and Gotze. In the resumption, then, Ekitike and once again the former Dortmund make the deficit even more important for the Lancers, to whom the goal of the flag signed by Taylor is not enough.
Great show of strength for Tottenham, which after losing 1-0 in the first leg, managed to overturn Az Alkmaar at home with a score of 3-1. In the net for Spurs Odobert (double) and Maddison, while for the Dutch to score Koopmeiners.
Failing to overturn the heavy 0-3 of the first leg, however, Olympiacos, which, at home, managed to narrowly beat (2-1) Bodo Glimt, without, however, managing to snatch qualification.
Finally, qualification to the quarterfinals for José Mourinho’s Fenerbahce fades in penalty kicks. The Turkish side, after coming back from a two-goal deficit in the first leg, was doomed by as many as three mistakes in the penalty shoot-out.
In the quarterfinals, Tottenham will face Eintracht Frankfurt, Bodo Glimt will face Marco Baroni’s Lazio, Glasgow Rangers will face Atheltic Bilbao, Roma’s executioner, and finally Manchester United will face Lyon.
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Matteo Gigante, world number 164, didn’t make it against the emerging Czech Jakub Mensik, number 21, who in the second round of the men’s singles at the Internazionali d’Italia beat him with a score of 7-6 7-5 in just over an ira and 40 minutes of play.
Two evenly matched sets in which there was only one break, the one on 5-5 in the second set in favor of Mensik, and only two other break points, saved by Gigante, who on 3-3 also in the second set had found himself down 15-40.
The situation was repeated four games later and this time Gigante had to surrender at the second opportunity for Mensik, who won the first set tie-break 7-4 by stringing five consecutive points from 4-2 in favor of the 23-year-old Roman.
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At the Castellani Stadium the Saturday night match of the thirty-sixth day of Serie A between Empoli and Parma will be played at 8:45 pm.
Between the Tuscans Henderson and Grassi return from disqualification, however, Colombo will not be there for the same reason. Maleh, Kouamé, Sazonov, Zurkowski, Haas and Pellegri are unavailable. Cacace favored in the runoff with Solbakken.
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Among the Ducals, to be evaluated Mihaila, Vogliacco and Bernabé recovered instead Almqvist. Unavailable Charpentier, Kowalski, Osorio, Estevez and Cancellieri.
The probable lineups
EMPOLI (3-4-2-1): Vasquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, Viti; Gyasi, Grassi, Henderson, Pezzella; Fazzini; Cacace, Esposito. All. D’Aversa.
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PARMA (3-5-2): Suzuki; Delprato, Leoni, Valenti; Hainaut, Hernani, Keita, Sohm, Valeri; Pellegrino, Bonny. All. Chivu.
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Giro d'Italia 2025: Tirana time trial to Joshua Tarling, Primoz Roglic is already pink jersey
The very young British rider Joshua Tarling, bearer of the Ineos Grenadiers and a specialist in races against the clock, won the Tirana time trial, the second stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025.
The 21-year-old Welshman covered the 13.7 kilometers of the course in 16’07”, finishing one second ahead of Slovenian Primoz Roglic, winner of the pink race in 2023, and three ahead of Australian Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates.
Roglic, of Red Bul-Bora-Hansgrohe, snatched the pink jersey from Dane Mads Pedersen, of Lidl-Trek, who finished seventh, by just one second. Third at 5 seconds was Czech Mathias Vacek, Pedersen’s teammate.
The first Italian in the overall standings is Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious), eighth at 25 seconds, while in the time trial Edoardo Affini, also a time trial specialist like Tarling, finished fourth at 6 seconds behind the Briton.
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Giro d'Italia 2025: Tirana time trial to Joshua Tarling, Primoz Roglic is already pink jersey
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