Lyon vs Man United LIVE: Europa League quarter-final score and updates

Lyon get the ball rolling for the primary leg. They’ve by no means overwhelmed Man Utd in competitors fixtures.

The hosts work the ball again to the goalkeeper who punts it lengthy.

The ball bounces by to Andre Onana who will get met with a refrain of boos from the house followers.

The groups make their means out onto the pitch on the Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

Ruben Amorim has spoken about how Lyon will probably be extra bodily than Actual Sociedad.

He needs Man Utd to be aggressive and says his gamers are ‘prepared for them’.

We’ll discover out shortly. Kick off is up subsequent…

This has been a rotten season for Manchester United however there’s nonetheless hope that it may be salvaged.

They should win the Europa League which is able to put them within the Champions League subsequent yr in addition to present extra choices to strengthen the squad in the course of the summer time.

That purpose begins in France tonight the place they’ll must maintain Lyon at bay and hope to inflict a defeat on the Ligue 1 facet.

Lyon’s Rayan Cherki has assisted eight targets within the Europa League this season, a joint report by a participant in a season together with Atletico de Madrid’s Diego in 2011-12.

Moreover, solely Dries Mertens (39) has created extra possibilities than Cherki (38) this season, with solely two gamers creating 40+ possibilities in a single season: Kevin De Bruyne in 2014-15 for Wolfsburg (52) and Hakim Ziyech in 2016-17 for Ajax (40).

Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes has been concerned in 41 targets within the Europa League, essentially the most of any participant within the competitors’s historical past (24 targets, 17 assists).

He additionally has essentially the most targets and assists within the knockout phases (16 targets, 11 assists), whereas his 11 assists are the joint most by a participant within the knockouts, together with former teammate Juan Mata.

Lyon supervisor Paulo Fonseca will turn into the fifth supervisor to take cost of fifty+ Europa League video games after Unai Emery (93), Jorge Jesus (68), Jose Mourinho (58) and Jindrich Trpisovsky (52).

Three of the earlier 4 have suffered defeat of their fiftieth recreation with Emery the exception within the 2015 last with Sevilla.

Expressing his disappointment, the pundit stated on the finish of the sport: “It seems to be prefer it’s Sunday afternoon they usually’re going to go for a roast dinner collectively now.”

Amorim jokingly responded: “I perceive that Gary Neville is important about every part, so I perceive that half.

“However then I perceive that we aren’t combating – we’re within the second that we’re doing the worst season in historical past.”

Gary Neville has hit out on the “robotic” nature of contemporary soccer after being left dissatisfied by a dour draw within the Manchester derby.

“I don’t suppose there was one participant who walked off that pitch dissatisfied about drawing 0-0, from both facet,” Neville stated. “All of them walked off form of pondering, ‘We’re OK right here, acquired away with out making a mistake’. It was that kind of recreation.

“The very best Man Metropolis and Man United groups could be very dissatisfied with the best way they’ve approached the tip of that recreation. It seems to be prefer it’s Sunday afternoon they usually’re going to go for a roast dinner collectively now. They’re micromanaged to an inch of their lives, so robotic, and it’s symptomatic of plenty of video games that we’re watching these days.

“I’m dissatisfied. It’s a Manchester derby. It ought to have extra blood, thunder, and danger and braveness concerned in taking part in the sport and profitable the sport than that.”

Manchester United haven’t misplaced the primary leg of any of their final 11 main knockout ties (5 wins, six attracts).

The final time they did so was a 1-0 residence defeat to Barcelona within the Champions League in April 2019.

Every of their final three away first leg matches have been drawn.

Man Utd have misplaced simply one in all their final 21 Europa League matches (14 wins, six attracts), shedding 3-0 away to Sevilla in April 2023.

That defeat additionally stays the one time in these 21 video games they’ve failed to attain.