After the drama of the Champions League’s return this week, it was now the Europa League’s turn to provide some midweek action.
16 games were played on Thursday, with Besiktas’ 4-1 win over Athletic Club forming the warm-up game on Wednesday evening.
The two English clubs were in action: Manchester United hosted Rangers and Tottenham traveled to Hoffenheim.
Ruben Amorim’s Red Devils scored a late winner to beat Rangers, while Ange Postecoglou’s Lilywhites almost squandered a comfortable lead in Germany but managed to hold on for three vital points.
Elsewhere, Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce took on Lyon but were unable to prevail against their French opponents, drawing 0-0 at home.
Portuguese club Porto hosted Olympiacos but failed, losing 1-0 thanks to a goal from Ayoub El Kaabi in the 79th minute.
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Roma moved to AZ Alkmaar and, like so many others, experienced a surprising result. The Italians lost 1-0 thanks to former Tottenham player Troy Parrott, who scored the only goal of the game.
Lazio clashed with Real Sociedad in a heated argument. The hosts ran out 3-1 winners and Aihen Munoz was sent off by Sociedad in the first half, making it difficult to turn the tie around from that moment on.
And Ajax experienced a surprising result, losing 0-1 away to RFS.
But that wasn’t the end of the action, as dozens more goals flew across the stadium on what was an excellent night of European football.
Read on to see the final results of all games.
Results of the 7th matchday of the Europa League
Alkmaar – Rome 1-0
Bodo/Glimt 3:1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Porto 0-1 Olympiakos
Fenerbahce 0-0 Lyon
Hoffenheim 2-3 Tottenham
Malmo 2-3 Twente
Qarabag 2-3 FCSB
Viktoria Plzen 2-0 Anderlecht
Frankfurt – Ferencvaros 2-0
Elfsborg 1-0 Nice
Lazio Rome 3-1 Real Sociedad
Ludogorets 0-2 FC Midtjylland
Manchester United 2-1 Rangers
PAOK 2-0 Slavia Prague
RFS 1-0 Ajax
Union St Gilloise 2-1 Braga
