The final 8 teams in the UEFA Europa League
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Celta Vigo (Spain)
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Besiktas (Turkey)
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Genk (Belgium)
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Anderlecht (Belgium)
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Schalke 04 (Germany)
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Lyon (France)
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Manchester United (England)
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Ajax (Netherlands)
March 16, 2017
Krasnodar 0-2 Celta Vigo
Hugo Mallo 52’
Iago Aspas 80’
After getting a ‘2-1’ win in the first leg, Celta finished the job away at Krasnodar by scoring the same amount of goal while denying the home team another.
Besiktas 4-1 Olympiacos
Vincent Aboubakar 10’ Tarik Elyounoussi 31’
Ryan Babel 22’ 75’
Cenk Tosun 84’
Besiktas did the job at home after a ‘1-1’ draw in the first leg.
Besiktas used home advantage to knock Olympiacos out of the 2016/17 Europa League.
Genk 1-1 Gent
Timothy Castagne 20’ Louis Verstraete 84’
Genk’s healthy 5-2 away victory in the first leg had the fixture wrapped up before the opening whistle.
Anderlecht 1-0 APOEL
Frank Acheampong 65’
Anderlecht repeated the first leg score to move on into the quarterfinals of the competition.
Monchengladbach 2-2 Schalke 04
Andreas Christensen 26’ Leon Goetz 54’
Mahmoud Dahoud 45’+2’ Nabil Bentaleb 68’
Aggregate score of ‘3-3’.
Schalke moved on into the quarterfinals by coming from two goals down to get the all important away goals.
Roma 2-1 Lyon
Kevin Strootman 17’ Mouctar Diakhaby 16’
Lucas Tousart 60’(o.g)
A ‘2-1’ home victory was not enough for Roma to reverse the damage done in the first leg.
Lyon moves on to the quarterfinals.
Manchester United 1-0 Rostov
Juan Mata 70’
Juan Mata sealed the victory after scoring the only goal against a defensive Rostov.
Ajax 2-0 Copenhagen
Bertrand Traore 23’
Kasper Dolberg 45’+3’(pen)
Ajax got two first half goals to overturn a ‘2-1’ defeat away at Copenhagen.
