United ease past St Etienne but suffer injury blows

Reuters: Manchester United strolled into the Europa League last 16 despite having Eric Bailly sent off after Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s first-half goal secured a resounding 4-0 aggregate victory over St Etienne on Wednesday.

The only negatives in a comfortable win for United were injuries to Mkhitaryan and midfielder Michael Carrick, who could both miss Sunday’s English League Cup final.

United will be joined in the next round by Schalke 04, whose 1-1 draw in their last 32 second-leg tie with PAOK Salonika was enough to secure a 4-1 aggregate win, and FK Krasnodar who went through against Fenerbahce.

United manager Jose Mourinho played a strong side including Zlatan Ibrahimovic who scored a hat-trick in last week’s 3-0 win over the French side and it did not take them long to effectively kill off the tie.