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In the 65th minute, the home team took the lead 1 – 0 when Zlatan Ibrahimovic turned the ball over after a cross from the right. The 39-year-old returned to the team after a thigh injury, but was not considered sufficiently recovered to start. Once he came in against Manchester United, as he scored 29 goals in 53 games for 2016-2018, he was tasked with trying to save Milan still in the Europa League.
The first round of 16 in England, which Ibrahimovic missed, ended 1-1 after Danish midfielder Simon Kjær tied late for Milan. In the return leg, Paul Pogba made it 1-0 for Manchester United at the start of the second half, just minutes after he jumped and thus returned from injury.
That was the situation for Ibrahimovic when he made his entrance.
It didn’t take long ten minutes before he got into cannon position, but the tough nod was a bit too direct to Manchester United cage goalkeeper Dean Henderson, who barely saved the corner.
A goal there could have taken the game into extra time. But it did not happen more than that, because neither Ibrahimovic nor Milan did not obtain any forcing. Instead, Manchester United are in the quarterfinals of the Europa League with a total of 2-1.
Victor Nilsson Lindelöf played, like so many times, 90 minutes in the central block of Manchester United and did well. On Monday, both he and Ibrahimovic will join the Swedish national team ahead of the World Cup qualifiers against Georgia at home and Kosovo away.
Earlier Thursday night, Arsenal programmatically progressed to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Admittedly it was 0-1 at home in London against Olympiakos, after the big star of the guests, Youssef El Arabi, scored. But when Arsenal won the first game 3-1 away, it was enough for promotion.
However, Arsenal’s archrival Tottenham Sensational result, despite the “Spurs” 2-0 in the home game against Dinamo Zagreb. As the Croatian champions had also been affected by the departure of coach Zoran Mamic until Monday, after being sentenced to prison for fraud, many may have thought Tottenham would go ahead quite easily.
But Dinamo Zagreb and Mislav Orsic wanted something different. The 28-year-old scored two goals in regulation time of the game, making it 2-0 and extra time. Once there, Orsic scored with his third goal of the night and sent Tottenham off. Greetings to Dinamo Zagreb, who thus represented their best effort in a European Cup since the club reached the 1969-70 Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals. Depp at Tottenham, who are only eighth in the Premier League.
Norwegian mold, with Andreas Linde on goal, Granada defeated La Liga Granada 2-1 in the second leg, which was played in Budapest due to crown restrictions. But Granada won the first match 2-0 and thus progressed to the quarterfinals. In addition, Roma, who defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 and a total of 5-1.
For Filip Helander and his new Scottish league champions, the Rangers, it was a departure. Rangers were 1-1 from the first meeting with Slavia Prague, but lost at home with 0-2 and a total of 1-3. National team defender Filip Helander sat on the bench for the entire match.
The quarterfinals will be drawn on Friday and will be decided on April 8 and 15, respectively.