{"id":492528,"date":"2025-05-01T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492528"},"modified":"2025-05-01T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:02:56","slug":"man-united-trash-10-man-athletic-bilbao-3-0-and-is-close-to-uel-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-united-trash-10-man-athletic-bilbao-3-0-and-is-close-to-uel-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United trash 10-man Athletic Bilbao 3-0 and is close to UEL final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-0 at Estadio San Mam\u00e9s, and only a miracle will stop them from playing for the title in the Europa League as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg is at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>After half an hour, Harry Maguire provided a phenomenal cross in the penalty box, as Manuel Ugarte after assisted Casemiro, who scored to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial moment came in the 35<sup>th<\/sup> minute when, after a VAR review, the referee gave a penalty for the Red Devils and at the same time showed a red card to Dani Vivian as Bruno Fernandes converted it to make it 2-0 in the 37<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester United are flying in Europa League this season \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hSZhEi7Z5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4hSZhEi7Z5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OneFootball (@OneFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneFootball\/status\/1918047330164511019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the last minute of the regular time of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Fernandes with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the game made it 3-0 after another assist from Ugarte.<\/p>\n<p>In the extra time Ruben Amorim\u2019s side was close to score 4<sup>th<\/sup> goal but the crossbar helped the home side to avoid it after Noussair Mazraoui\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n<p>Casemiro had two fantastic chances withing 60 seconds to score his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal and make it 4-0 for Manchester United but he failed to do it as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time the right post denied his goal after a header from corner.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t see any goals in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half despite the fact that the Red Devils played with 1 more player but they have comfortable advantage of 3 goals and Ruben Amorim is close to have the chance to win a trophy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If both Manchester United and Tottenham hold on to their semifinal leads, we could be set for an all-English Europa League final between the teams currently 14th and 16th in the Premier League \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hBg2fNhGPW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hBg2fNhGPW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1918046869546058042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-0 at Estadio San Mam\u00e9s, and only a miracle will stop them from playing for the title in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492529,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21153,17343,16789],"news_category":[143,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21154,17561,17559],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils almost certainly secured their place at the Europa League final.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492531,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492528\/revisions\/492531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492528"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492528"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}