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May 7, 2021 Villareal Through To First Europa League Final At The Expense Of Arsenal

Villareal Through To First Europa League Final At The Expense Of Arsenal

Arsenal's Europa League hopes were dashed as Villarreal sealed a semi-final victory that will almost certainly end the Gunners' unbroken 25-season run of appearing in European competition.

Trailing 2-1 from the first leg in Spain and knowing that victory in this tournament represented their only realistic route back into the Champions League, Mikel Arteta's side could not find a way past the visitors' steadfast defensive lineup.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck the post with a volley but it was a rare moment of threat in a display strangely passive for large parts.

Nicolas Pepe and Emile Smith Rowe both fired efforts wide early in the second half and Aubameyang hit the post again with a downward header later in the game, but such moments were few and far between.

That the defeat came at the hands of former boss Unai Emery will be especially disappointing for the Gunners. Emery was sacked in November 2019 after 18 months in charge, ultimately leading to the appointment of Arteta.

With Manchester United seeing off Roma in the other semi-final and Chelsea and Manchester City into the Champions League final, Arsenal's loss ruins hopes of a Premier League clean sweep of European competitions this season.

Villarreal will face United in Gdansk's Stadion Miejski on 26 May.

 

May 7, 2021  Man Utd Through To Europa Final Despite Roma Loss

 Man Utd Through To Europa Final Despite Roma Loss

Manchester United reached their first final of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer era but lost their seven-match unbeaten record in an entertaining Europa League last-four tie against AS Roma.

Edinson Cavani scored both goals for United in the second leg of a 13-goal semi-final.

The Uruguayan opened the scoring with a fabulous first-half effort, then found the net with a fine header from Bruno Fernandes' excellent floated pass in the second half.

In between, Roma briefly threatened a comeback when former Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko scored his ninth goal against United before Bryan Cristante finished smartly with a shot on the turn.

The Italians had the final word when Nicola Zalewski's low drive went in through David de Gea's legs after taking a deflection off Alex Telles.

The 8-5 aggregate victory ends a run of four semi-final defeats for United under Solskjaer and sets up a meeting with Villarreal - who knocked out Arsenal - in Gdansk on 26 May.

 

May 5, 2021 Former Spurs And Chelsea Coach, Villas-Boas To  Make His World Rally Debut In  Portugal

Former Spurs And Chelsea Coach, Villas-Boas To  Make His World Rally Debut In  Portugal

Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas will make his World Rally Championship debut in Portugal.

Villas-Boas, who dramatically departed Marseille in March, will drive a Citroen C3 in WRC3, the third tier of the championship for privateer cars.

The 43-year-old Portuguese manager, has previous motorsport experience and crashed out of the Dakar Rally in 2018.

Rally Portugal, the fourth round of the WRC, takes place from 20-23 May.

Northern Ireland's Josh McErlean will make his first World Rally appearance as a Hyundai Junior driver at Rally Portugal and will be against Villas-Boas in WRC3. England's Chris Ingram will also be in the class after making his WRC debut in Croatia last month.

Jon Armstrong, who won in Croatia, and fellow Northern Irishman William Creighton are entered in the Junior WRC category.

Northern Irish co-driver Aaron Johnston will sit beside highly-rated Oliver Solberg, son of 2003 champion Petter, as the pair make their next World Rally Championship outing of the season with Hyundai in WRC2.

 

May 5, 2021 World Number 3, Halep Knocked Out Of Miami Open

World Number 3, Halep Knocked Out Of Miami Open

World number three Simona Halep was dumped out of the Madrid Open on Tuesday, losing 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the last 16 to Belgian Elise Mertens.

Romania's Halep, who won the Madrid title in 2016 and 2017, is still yet to reach a WTA Tour final this season and saw her earliest exit in the Spanish capital since a 2015 first-round loss.

Halep had sailed through the first two rounds on the Madrid clay arena without dropping a set but she ended up second best in a match which yielded 15 breaks of serve.

Halep served 10 double faults in the match, Mertens nine.

Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one, was twice a break up in the final set at 3-1 and 4-3 but finally succumbed after just over two and a half hours of play.

In the quarter-finals, 13th seed Mertens will meet her doubles partner, Belarusian seventh seed Aryna Sabalenka, who dispatched American Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-2 in just 52 minutes.

Two other quarter-final line-ups are also settled, with world number one Ashleigh Barty set to meet ninth seed Petra Kvitova while eighth seed Belinda Bencic is up against Spaniard Paula Bad

Osa, ranked 62 in the world.

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