Spanish club Sevilla made England's Manchester United suffer a hat trick of semifinal defeats this season hammering them 2-1 in the Europa League to Sevilla yesterday. After losing in the last four of the FA Cup and EFL Cup, United failed to convert a string of chances before Luuk de Jong scored the winning goal for Europa League experts Sevilla. United were beaten 3-2 on aggregate by Manchester City in January in a two-leg EFL Cup semifinal and 3-1 by Chelsea in the FA Cup semifinals in July. With the game at 1-1 and heading for extra time, Sevilla substitute de Jong made the breakthrough in the 78th minute. It was enough to beat Sevilla 'keeper Bounou, who had saved a spot kick from Wolverhampton's Raul Jimenez in the previous round.

Source: The Standard August 17, 2020 04:30 UTC