LONDON: A hopeless season for Louis van Gaal and Manchester United took another turn for the more regrettable on Thursday as they lost 2-1 away to Danish champions Midtjylland in the Europa League.
Objectives from the skilled Pione Sisto and youthful Nigerian forward Paul Onuachu gave Midtjylland the triumph in Herning after Memphis Depay had put a debilitated United side ahead in the primary leg of their last-32 tie.
That away objective gives United each possibility of turning things around in next Thursday's arrival at Old Trafford however the phantom of a mortifying way out lingers palpably during a period when Van Gaal's side fall behind in their offer to complete in the main four of the Premier League.
The Dutch supervisor has conceded winning the Europa League might now be his side's most obvious opportunity with regards to meeting all requirements for next season's Champions League and this most recent difficulty will just expand the weight on him.
He conveyed a debilitated side with Sergio Romero supplanting the harmed David de Gea in objective, and any semblance of Paddy McNair and Donald Love highlighting from the begin against rivals who wiped out Southampton before in the opposition, and Midtjylland merited their win.
"It's simply not adequate. It's not adequate. It must be a considerable measure better," conceded United midfielder Michael Carrick, identifying with BT Sport.
"We didn't generally kick on after we scored. With an execution and an outcome like that we go home extremely disillusioned."
Chief League title contenders Tottenham Hotspur fared better, leaving far from their trek to Italy to confront Fiorentina with a 1-1 draw that places them in a solid position in front of one week from now's arrival.
Mauricio Pochettino conveyed a solid side, yet one missing first-decision goalkeeper Hugo Lloris and with Harry Kane on the seat.
What's more, Spurs went in front in the 37th moment when Nacer Chadli changed over from the punishment spot after Ben Davies was brought around Nenad Tomovic.
Be that as it may, Fiorentina, who sit third in Serie A, drew level just before the hour mark on account of Federico Bernardeschi, whose long-go hit beat Michel Vorm with the guide of a diversion off Ryan Mason.
In the interim, Jurgen Klopp's arrival to Germany with Liverpool saw his side draw 0-0 with Bundesliga outfit Augsburg in Bavaria, leaving that tie finely balanced.
Liverpool might lament not escaping objective, but rather it could have been more awful for them as substitute Ji Dong-Won hit the woodwork for the hosts late on.
"There's no point escaping, 0-0 far from home isn't an awful result, however despite everything we have a great deal of work to do," said Klopp.
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Valencia can as of now begin anticipating the last 16 in the wake of wrecking Rapid Vienna 6-0 at the Mestalla to give under-flame mentor Gary Neville a noteworthy help.
Valencia were five objectives to the great at the break with Santi Mina scoring two and Dani Parejo, Alvaro Negredo and Andre Gomes additionally on target. Substitute Rodrigo wrapped up the win late on.
Holders Sevilla have one foot in the last 16 in the wake of beating Molde of Norway 3-0 at the Sanchez Pizjuan with Fernando Llorente netting twice before Kevin Gameiro wrapped up the win.
Kindred Spaniards Villarreal beat Serie A guests Napoli 1-0 by means of a late objective from Denis Suarez, and Athletic Bilbao finished a fine night for clubs from La Liga as they won 1-0 at Marseille because of a shocking volley by Aritz Aduriz, the veteran striker scoring his 26th objective of the season.
Somewhere else, Borussia Dortmind place themselves in a solid position against FC Porto as they beat the Portuguese monsters 2-0 at the Signal Iduna Park on account of an objective in every half from Lukasz Piszczek and Marco Reus.
Dortmund's neighborhood rivals Schalke drew 0-0 with Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine while Bayer Leverkusen won 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon with Karim Bellarabi getting the main objective.
Anderlecht beat Olympiakos 1-0 as Serigne Mbodji got the main objective of the amusement in Brussels, while a late strike by Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, on credit from Paris Saint-Germain, gave Saint-Etienne a 3-2 win at home to Swiss champions Basel.
Lazio dug out from a deficit to draw 1-1 with Galatasaray in Istanbul on account of a Sergej Milinkovic-Savic strike, while Sparta Prague edged the Russians Krasnodar 1-0 and 2011 runners-up Braga beat Sion 2-1 in Switzerland.
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