{"id":74549,"date":"2023-02-24T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:43:29","slug":"manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Eliminate Barcelona From Europa League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Manchester United came from behind to beat Barcelona 2-1 at Old Trafford and reach the Europa League last 16 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian duo Fred and Antony, who came on as a half-time substitute, scored for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona had taken the lead through Robert Lewandowski\u2019s 18th-minute penalty after Bruno Fernandes\u2019 needless foul on Alejandro Balde.<\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag\u2019s side will face Newcastle in the EFL Cup final on Sunday looking to collect their first silverware since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For Barcelona, it was their first defeat since October and ended an 18-match unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Ten Hag described the performance by his charges as magnificent. BBC quoted him as saying:<\/p>\n<p>It was a magnificent night. I think it is brilliant when you can beat Barcelona, eight points ahead of Real Madrid in La Liga and we have seen in this week Real Madrid playing.<\/p>\n<p>A magnificent performance and we have to take it with us this season that we can win the games.<\/p>\n<p>I think we have great personalities, starting with David, Rapha, Licha, Casemiro, Bruno, winning types.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has such a strong belief in this team and fight in this team and you can see it with the subs, they are bringing energy and quality and a different dynamic in games.<\/p>\n<p>All the subs, not only in this game, did brilliantly.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other results from Europa League matches played on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>FC Midtjylland 0-4 <b>Sporting CP<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Monaco 2-3 <b>Bayer Leverkusen<\/b> (PEN)<\/p>\n<p>Nantes 0-3 <b>Juventus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>PSV Eindhoven 2-0 <b>Sevilla<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Manchester United<\/b> 2-1 Barcelona<\/p>\n<p>Rennes 2-1 <b>Shakhtar Donetsk<\/b> (PEN)<\/p>\n<p><b>Roma<\/b> 2-0 FC Salzburg<\/p>\n<p><b>Union Berlin<\/b> 3-1 Ajax<\/p>\n<p><b>Note: teams in bold have qualified for the next round of the competition.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Manchester United came from behind to beat Barcelona 2-1 at Old Trafford and reach the Europa League last 16 on Thursday night. Brazilian duo Fred and Antony, who came on as a half-time substitute, scored for Manchester United. Barcelona had taken the lead through Robert Lewandowski\u2019s 18th-minute penalty after Bruno Fernandes\u2019 needless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[1493,2189,7487,3057,14075,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-74549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-europa-league","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-uefa-europa-league","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Manchester United Eliminate Barcelona From Europa League - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manchester United came from behind to beat Barcelona 2-1 at Old Trafford and reach the Europa League last 16 on Thursday ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manchester United Eliminate Barcelona From Europa League\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United came from behind to beat Barcelona 2-1 at Old Trafford and reach the Europa League last 16 on Thursday ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-24T07:17:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-24T09:43:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677217648.81.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1296\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"518\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/manchester-united-eliminate-barcelona-from-europa-league\",\"name\":\"Manchester United Eliminate Barcelona From Europa League - 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