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Everton’s Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku (C) cel- ebrates scoring his team’s fourth goal Football Scores as of closing Ibra

Everton 4 Leicester 2 sparks Sunderland 0 Manchester United 3 Man Utd Lukaku ends Leicester run

Granada 1 Valencia 3 London six-game winning run with an leg of their Europa League quarter- Celta Vigo 0 Eibar 2 vergreen entertaining 4-2 victory. final. Osasuna 2 Leganes 1 Manchester United extended their unbeaten Las Palmas 4 1 EUnited record to 21 league games and Early bird Davies striker Zlatan climbed to fifth place in the table, Sunderland have lost six and Ibrahimovic four points below fourth-place drawn one of their last seven games likened himself Manchester City, who have played and now lie 10 points adrift of safety, Sampdoria 2 Fiorentina 2 to film a game more. relegation to the Championship Bologna 0 Roma 3 character “The result was good,” said looming closer with each passing Cagliari 2 Torino 3 Benjamin United manager Jose Mourinho, week. Crotone 2 Inter Milan 1 Button after whose side will return to sixth place “Today the result was helped AC Milan 4 Palermo 0 inspiring if Arsenal win at Crystal Palace on by the referee,” said Sunderland Udinese 3 Genoa 0 his team to a Monday. manager David Moyes, the former 3-0 victory at “We resisted the results of United boss. yesterday when Manchester City “Manchester United were playing basement club and Liverpool won. They left us in a well, but the red card was a decision Sunderland position of ‘yes or no?’ that went against us. It was ‘yes’.” “We keep going. We have United were another home game next Saturday without goalkeeper (against West Ham United) and we due to have to try and win it.” a minor hip injury, with Everton drew level with yesterday. Sergio Romero deputising, but sixth-place Arsenal, having Ibrahimovic, 35, Mourinho expects the Spaniard to played three more games, after opened the scoring be fit for the visit of leaders Chelsea thwarting Leicester manager Craig with his 28th goal of next Sunday. Shakespeare’s quest for a sixth the season and after Ibrahimovic broke the deadlock successive league win and seventh Seb Larsson had on the half-hour at the Stadium of in total. Hertha Berlin 2 Augsburg 0 been sent off for Light, fending off Billy Jones and Home-grown 18-year-old Ingolstadt 04 3 Darmstadt 2 Sunderland, goals whipping a low shot past Jordan midfielder Tom Davies put Everton from Henrikh Pickford from 20 yards for his 18th ahead after only 31 seconds Mkhitaryan and goal of the league campaign. following a dart into the box by Sunderland then lost Larsson to a Kevin Mirallas. completed victory. furiously contested straight red card Demarai Gray released Islam Toulouse 0 Marseille 0 “I feel like after referee Craig Pawson decided Slimani to level in the fourth Saint-Etienne 1 Nantes 1 Benjamin Button. the Swede’s challenge on Ander minute and six minutes later Marc Paris Saint-Germain 4 Guingamp 0 I was born old and Herrera had been unduly reckless. Albrighton’s free-kick from wide on will die young,” The hosts’ hopes of a comeback the left embarrassed Joel Robles to Ibrahimovic said, citing evaporated within 46 seconds of put Leicester ahead. the 2008 Brad Pitt film kick-off in the second half as Luke But Lukaku equalised in the 23rd about a man who ages in Shaw fed Mkhitaryan to drill a low, minute, heading in an exquisite Aberdeen 0 Rangers 3 reverse. angled shot beyond Pickford’s dive. cross by Ross Barkley, and after In the day’s other Substitute Rashford completed Phil Jagielka had headed in from game, league top scorer the scoring late on, exchanging a corner, Lukaku smashed in his Manchester United’s Romelu Lukaku took passes with Ibrahimovic and second with over half an hour to Swedish striker Zlatan his tally to 23 goals arrowing a low drive into the play. Leicester, who visit Atletico Ufa 1 Spartak Moscow 3 Ibrahimovic plays the ball with a brace as bottom-left corner. Madrid on Wednesday in the first Everton ended United play Anderlecht in leg of their Champions League Krasnodar 1 CSKA Moscow 1 Leicester City’s Brussels on Thursday in the first quarter-final, remain 11th. (AFP) Lokomotiv Moscow 0 Rostov 0