In the early morning of September 16, Beijing time, the second round of the Europa League group stage ushered in a focus battle, and Manchester United won the first victory with a 2-0 away victory over Sharif. In this battle, C Ronaldo scored a penalty to end the goal drought of the new season, but also to rewrite the 4 major records, and is close to reaching the club's 700-goal milestone.
As the 2017 Europa League winner, Manchester United has only been crowned once in its history, when the manager was Still Jose Mourinho, of which the first two years, Manchester United is expected to win the title for the second time, and finally lost to Villarreal to finish second.
In the new Europa League, Manchester United and Real Sociedad, Sharif and Omonia are in the same group, resulting in a home defeat to Real Sociedad in the first round, creating a humiliating record for the first time in team history.
Now away to Moldovan league side Sharif, who played in the Champions League for the first time last season and once beat Real Madrid away from home, so Manchester United can't take it lightly.
In this game, Cristiano Ronaldo continued to start the game, the last game against Real Sociedad started the grain, this time against Sharif, the Portuguese superstar completed the outbreak.
In the 17th minute of the first half, Eriksen sent a clever pass and Sancho dunked into the net from the penalty area to help United take a 1-0 lead. After 22 minutes, United won the penalty, Dalot made a point, and Cristiano Ronaldo took a steady shot to help United extend the score 2-0 away.
Scoring a penalty allowed Cristiano Ronaldo to finally end the goal drought of the new season and score his first goal for the 8th appearance for Manchester United. This goal, C Ronaldo set 4 records, first, personal career to win the first goal in the Europa League, career participation in the tournament only the community shield did not score; Second, having scored in a club career for 21 consecutive seasons since the 2002/03 season; Third, the club career broke through the door of the 124th different team; Fourth, it has set a new number of goals in European history, scoring 144 goals and throwing 15 goals off Messi.
It is worth mentioning that Ronaldo has scored 699 goals in his career, only one goal away from reaching the 700-goal milestone, and so is Messi, who is likely to complete the 700-goal milestone early due to the postponement of United's Premier League match this weekend.
In the end, United relied on the joint goals of Sancho and Cristiano Ronaldo to win Sharif 2-0 to win the first Europa League of the new season, reaching 3 points and rising to second place in the group.