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MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (center) heads the ball to score but is ruled offside duringthe UEFA Europa League Round of 32 first-leg foot- ball match between Manchester United and Saint-Etienne at Old Trafford stadium on February 16, 2017. —AFP Ibrahimovic, Dzeko run riot in Europa Spurs beaten 1-0; rout AZ; Fiorentina edge Gladbach

LONDON: The goals continued to flow for Manchester asm. The match was billed as a battle of the Pogba brothers escape with a one-goal deficit. After Perbet scored, Gent, United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and AS Roma’s Edin Dzeko as with younger sibling Paul facing St Etienne’s Florentin for the eighth in the Belgian league, had a golden chance to double they bagged hat-tricks to help their teams take commanding first time in a competitive encounter. It was the 35-year-old their lead but Danijel Milicevic’s effort was tipped onto the leads in the first legs of their Europa League last 32 ties on Ibrahimovic who stole the show, however, grabbing his first post by keeper Hugo Lloris. Thursday. United swept aside St Etienne 3-0 at Old Trafford United hat-trick and taking his tally in a remarkable maiden Gladbach came into their encounter with Fiorentina on a and Roma made light work of last season’s semi-finalists season at Old Trafford to 23. hot streak having won their last four games and they domi- Villarreal with a 4-0 win in Spain, leaving their sides with little nated possession and made several chances against the work to do in next week’s return encounters. Rich Vein Italians. The Serie A side were resilient at the back, however, Tottenham Hotspur’s Europa League campaign, howev- Dzeko is in a similarly rich vein of form at Roma, who swat- and grabbed the only goal when Federico Bernardeschi fired er, got off to a frustrating start as they were beaten 1-0 at ted aside a Villarreal team who are in freefall having now won home a fine free kick in the dying seconds of the first half. mid-table Belgian outfit Gent, while just one of their last 10 games in all competitions. Emerson Lyon will take a commanding lead into their second leg beat AZ Alkmaar 4-1 away and Fiorentina edged Borussia Palmieri gave Roma the lead after 32 minutes and then Dzeko against AZ Alkmaar after teenager Lucas Tousart scored his Moenchengladbach 1-0. St Etienne will be totally sick of the took over after the break, netting for the seventh straight first senior goal and rounded off the scoring in sight of Ibrahimovic as the Swede took his tally against the game to double the lead in the 65th minute before adding stoppage time either side of Alexandre Lacazette’s double. side to 17 goals in 14 games, having terrorised Les two more goals to take his tally for the campaign to 28. Alireza Jahanbakhsh had reduced the deficit for AZ with a Verts during his four years at Paris St Germain. “Every time Spurs, who have dropped into the competition from the 68th-minute penalty. Schalke 04’s Klaas-Jan Huntelaar netted I’ve played against St Etienne, with hard work there has Champions League, were off color throughout in Belgium his 50th European goal to round off a 3-0 win at PAOK been a couple of goals. I’ve scored a couple of goals tonight and were undone in the second half when journeyman Salonika while Anderlecht overcame a sluggish Zenit St and hopefully I can do the same next week,” Ibrahimovic French striker Jeremy Perbet stroked home at the second Petersburg, playing their first competitive game in 10 weeks, told BT Sport. attempt on the hour. Spurs had arrived looking to restore to win 2-0 in Belgium. Elsewhere, Shakhtar Donetsk won 1-0 He opened the scoring with a deflected free kick in the pride in north London football after Arsenal were thrashed 5- at Celta Vigo with a 27th-minute goal from Gustavo Blanco first half and added two more - a tap-in and a late penalty - 1 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday Leschuk, while Sparta Prague were thrashed 4-0 at Rostov after the break as United quelled the visitors’ early enthusi- but were stifled in a poor performance and were lucky to and FC Krasnodar beat visitors Fenerbahce 1-0. —Reuters