Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring for Inter Milan in the 33rd minute and Jorge Molina had the opportunity to restore parity through a penalty 14 minutes left after a Diego Godin handball but spurred the chance and Christain Eriksen completed the task for Inter Milan with his late goal to seal Inter’s spot in the last 8.
Lukaku’s goal on Wednesday was his 30th of the Season with 23 of those goals coming in the Serie A and it is the first time Lukaku is scoring that much of a goal in one Season compared to the 27 goals he scored for United in 2017-18 season. Lukaku becomes the first Inter striker to score that many goals since Samuel Eto’o in 2010-11, when the striker scored an amazing 37 goals just one season after Inter claimed the unforgettable treble.
Meanwhile, Christain Eriksen has now been involved in five goals in his last four appearances in the Europa league Inter will now look ahead to the quarter finals were they might take on Rangers or Bayern Leverkusen with the German outfit holding a 3-1 lead from the first leg.
In other UEL matches played on Wednesday, Shakhtar Donetsk defeated Wolfsburg of Germany 3- goals to nil in the second leg of the encounter. In aggregate Shakhtar now defeats Wolfburg by 5-goals to 1.
The game was brought back to life after a goaless first 45mins, with Khocholava and Brooks shown red cards within a space of three minutes. A draw would have sent Shaktar through but from their play they wanted a victory.
Júnior Moraes( 89min, 90+3min )netted twice either side of Solomon’s( 90+1min )strike in a burst of goals in the final stages of the game to put the game to bed.
A defeats officially puts an end to Wolfburg season while Shakhtar will move on to the quarter finals were they’ll face either Eintracht Frankfurt or Basel with the Latter already leading By 3-goals to nil.
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