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Manchester United 2-1 LASK (agg 7-1): Red Devils coast through to Europa League quarter-finals as Anthony Martial wraps up tie late on with Jesse Lingard also on the scoresheet after Austrian side took a shock lead at Old Trafford

It wasn’t worth waiting five minutes for, never mind five months, but Manchester United had already done more than enough in Austria in May.

They advance to the business end of the Europa League in Cologne next week and a quarter-final meeting with Copenhagen.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side will go into the mini-tournament in Germany as favourites, even though there was little evidence to support that on a drab night at Old Trafford.

Jesse Lingard celebrates scoring the equaliser for Man United, his second in two games after starting in the Europa League tie
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team will go into the mini tournament in Germany as one of the heavy favourites to lift the trophy

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team will go into the mini tournament in Germany as one of the heavy favourites to lift the trophy

A 5-0 lead from the first leg before lockdown turned this tie into the deadest of rubbers and gave Solskjaer the chance to make changes again.