Scintillating Sevilla dump United out of Europa League

Harry Maguire and David De Gea errors bookended an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at Sevilla as Manchester United’s Europa League dreams went up in smoke in Spain. A week on from blowing a comfortable two-goal lead in the first leg of this quarter-final, the Red Devils withered rather than rallied at the rocking Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.

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Aleksandar Mitrovic to face lengthy ban for confronting referee

Aleksandar Mitrovic is facing a lengthy ban after the Football Association announced the standard punishment for his dismissal against Manchester United would be “clearly insufficient”. Mitrovic gave Fulham the lead in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford but was sent off after trying to grab referee Chris Kavanagh’s arm during a chaotic couple of minutes.

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Rashford on target as United breeze past Betis

Marcus Rashford was on target again as Manchester United cruised into the quarter-finals of the Europa League with a clinical win at Real Betis. After an open first half Rashford put United ahead in the 55th minute with a thunderous long-range effort dipping into the bottom corner ending Betis’ slim hopes of turning the tie on its head.

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Liverpool subject United to seven goal humiliation

Liverpool brought Manchester United’s bandwagon to a shuddering halt as Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored twice in a record 7-0 hammering of their arch-rivals to boost their Premier League top-four hopes at Anfield. The Reds held a narrow 1-0 lead at the break but turned on the style in the second half to blow United away.

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