Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the game as Manchester United claimed a 1-0 advantage in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final clash with Celta Vigo.
The hosts carved out the first chance of the evening in the 11th minute when poor marking from United allowed Daniel Wass to get his head to Nemanja Radoja’s cross at the far post, but the Dane’s effort sailed wide.
Jose Mourinho’s side weathered the early storm and took control of the contest, creating their first clear-cut chance in the 19th minute when a curling effort from Rashford was kept out at full stretch by Sergio Alvarez between the Celta sticks.
They next threatened just after the half-hour mark when a measured through-ball from Paul Pogba sent Henrikh Mkhitaryan clean through on goal, but Alvarez was quick off his line to thwart the Albanian at close range.
With six minutes of the first half remaining, Rashford teed up Lingard in the penalty area, but the England international could only direct his strike at Celta’s in-form goalkeeper.
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