LONDON: An impudent individual objective from Philippe Coutinho controlled Liverpool serenely into the quarter-finals of the Europa League on Thursday after a 1-1 draw at astringent opponents Manchester United finished a 3-1 total win.
Liverpool's Brazilian playmaker moved down the touchline and coasted past a guard, before chipping the ball over attendant David De Gea from a tight edge to quieten the home group, who were detecting a rebound after Anthony Martial's punishment opener.
Juergen Klopp's side, who did the greater part of the harm in a 2-0 first-leg triumph, will be joined in the last eight by the German mentor's previous club Borussia Dortmund, who neglected Tottenham Hotspur 5-1 more than two legs, after a 2-1 win in London.
The quarter-last line-up was finished by holders Sevilla, Athletic Bilbao, Shakhtar Donetsk, Braga, Sparta Prague and Villarreal with the draw occurring on Friday.
Liverpool's competition with United extends back more than 122 years, however the two sides were playing out their biting quarrel on the European stage without precedent for the two-legged tie.
The 196th focused experience between the clubs could be an epic with United expecting to turn out all weapons blasting so as to have a shot.
At the point when Martial was stumbled by Nathaniel Clyne with scarcely thirty minutes gone and lifted himself up to coolly dispatch the punishment, the rebound looked on.
United had effectively wasted various chances and Liverpool looked helpless, yet any energy the home side had developed was pounded a moment before halftime when Coutinho's objective left them expecting to score four.
The second half was a let-down as United looked deprived of conviction and Liverpool undermined on the break.
Liverpool are England's just surviving delegate in Europe's second-level rivalry as Tottenham's Europa League enterprise was finished insistently by Dortmund.
Driven by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who scored twice on Thursday to add to the objective he scored in the main leg, Dortmund demonstrated excessively solid for the Premier League outfit, who left top scorer Harry Kane on the seat with an eye on their household title challenge.
Aubameyang opened the scoring with a wonderful plunging exertion following 24 minutes and multiplied the favorable position with a venomous exertion 19 minutes time.
Child Heung-Min's comfort for Spurs couldn't stop them tumbling to their first annihilation in 10 European home recreations.
Sevilla, pursuing a record third straight title, were beyond anyone's ability to see by halftime in their second leg conflict against Basel as two Kevin Gameiro strikes in the space of two minutes and an objective for Adil Rami finished a 3-0 triumph after the main leg finished 0-0.
Fenerbahce finished with eight men as they surrendered a 1-0 first-leg advantage in a 4-1 annihilation to Braga, who finished the Turkish side's inclusion with objectives from Ahmed Hassan, a Josue punishment and further endeavors from Nikola Stojiljkovic and Rafa Silva. Mehmet Topal, Alper Potuk and Volkan Sen, who got two yellow cards in stoppage time, were all rejected for Fenerbahce.
Aritz Aduriz scored late in the second half to send Athletic Bilbao into the quarter-finals on away objectives, notwithstanding a 2-1 thrashing to Spanish rivals Valencia.
Valencia supervisor Gary Neville has had little to celebrate since joining the club in December, however looked on course for some uncommon happiness when his side scored twice in the principal half through Santi Mina and Brazilian guard Aderlan Santos.
Joy swung to disillusionment, be that as it may, when Aduriz jabbed home his eighth Europa League objective this season following 76 minutes taking after a splendid flick from Raul Garcia, giving Bilbao a significant away objective to add to their 1-0 win in the main leg.
There was no late dramatization in Italy where Lazio were dismembered by Sparta Prague, who scored three times in the principal half to finish a 3-0 away win and 4-1 total triumph.
Villarreal experienced 2-0 on total after a goalless draw at Bayer Leverkusen, while Shakhtar Donetsk's Croatian striker Eduardo scored in stoppage time for a 1-0 win over at Anderlecht to finish a 4-1 total triumph.
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