Marcus Rashford’s second-half strike sealed a 1-0 win on the night for Manchester United over Real Betis and a 5-1 aggregate victory in the Europa League last 16
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“Once you have scored the first goal the game is gone for them. They don’t have the belief any more and you have to manage that,” Erik ten Hag said. “I am very pleased.” Ultimately, his United team had eased into the quarter-finals, where they will surely be favourites. They also escaped the greatest risk they had faced, Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes avoiding suspensions.Superiority told.
Betis had never overcome more than a one-goal deficit in Europe, let alone three, and still less against, “a Champions League team in the Europa League”. There is, he claimed, a tenfold difference in their budgets but that did not mean there would be no belief. Fans arrived early, gathered singing in the sunshine, orange blossom announcing spring. They were determined to try; above all, they came to enjoy this.
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