Highlighted Matches
AZ Alkmaar 1-4 Lyon
Alireza Jahanbakhsh 68’ Lucas Tousart 26’
Alexandre Lacazette 45’ 57’
Jordan Ferri 90’
Alexandre Lacazette scored a brace as Lyon took a massive step towards the Round of 16 after getting four goals away at AZ Alkmaar.
Rostov 4-0 Sparta Prague
Miha Mevlja 15’
Dmitry Poloz 37’
Christian Noboa 40’
Serdar Azmun 68’
Rostov made home advantage count against Sparta Prague. They go into the second leg without conceding any goals at home and placing themselves up by four goals.
Anderlecht 2-0 Zenit St. Petersburg
Frank Acheampong 5’ 31’
Frank Acheampong scored two goals in the first half to significantly raise the Anderlecht chances of moving on to the next stage of the 2016/17 Europa League.
Athletic Club 3-2 APOEL
Giorgos Merkis 38’ Georgios Efrem 36’
Aritz Aduriz 61’ Giannis Gianniotas 89’
Inaki Williams 72’
Despite losing the first leg, Giannis Gianniotas scored late to give APOEL a better chance of advancing by the away goal rule. Athletic Club will need to be clinical in front of both goals in the second leg.
Manchester United 3-0 Saint-Etienne
Zlatan Ibrahimovic 15’ 75’ 88’
In a fixture that was pitched as Pogba v Pogba, it was a Zlatan Ibrahimovic hat-trick saw Manchester United defeat Saint-Etienne at Old Trafford.
PAOK 0-3 Schalke 04
Guido Burgstaller 27’
Max Meyer 82’
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 90’
A great scoreline for Schalke 04 to take home for the return leg.
Schalke 04 made it a third consecutive victory in the third competition after defeating PAOK away by 3 goals to nil.
Villarreal 0-4 Roma
Emerson 32’
Edin Dzeko 65’ 79’ 86’
An Edin Dzeko second half hat-trick helped Roma thrashed Villarreal and secure the all important away lead.
