On Thursday, the fifth round of the UEFA Europa League group stage started. This season, in this tournament, the "Manchester United" team suffered their first defeat, losing 1:2 to the "Astana" footballers. Playing without most of their main players, the "Red Devils" surged ahead in the 10th minute after Jesse Lingard's goal. This was the only goal in the first half. In the 55th minute, Tahith Chong had a great opportunity to double the visitors' advantage, but he failed to hit the empty goal from a few meters away, and during the next attack, "Astana" equalized the score, thanks to Dmitri Shomko. In the 62nd minute, the hosts surged ahead when "Man Utd" defender Di'Shon Bernard scored an own goal. At the end of the match, the guests pressed their opponents and tried to equalize the score, but they failed to do so, and "Astana" found their chances in counterattacks. For the champions of Kazakhstan, these are the first points to be fought for in the Europa League this season. TOURNAMENT GROUP TABLE Other results: "Krasnodar" 1:0 "Basel" "Trabzonspor" 0:1 "Getafe" "AZ Alkmaar" 2:2 "Partizan" "Basaksehir" 0:3 "Roma" "Besiktas" 2:1 "Slovan" "Braga" 3:3 "Wolves" CSKA 1:1 "Ludogorets" "Ferencvaros" 2:2 "Espanyol" "Feyenoord" 2:2 "Rangers" "Oleksandriya" 0:1 "Wolfsburg" "St. Etienne" 0:0 "Gent" "Wolfsberger" 0:1 "Monchengladbach" "Young Boys" 1:2 "Porto"
