The Spanish duet achieved victories over the Germans in the Europa League, Izmailov scored Ukrainians

Athletics football players from Bilbao in the first quarterfinal match of the Europa League at a guest achieved a strong-willed victory over the German Schalke-04, scoring three goals in the last 17 minutes.

Athletic defeated 4: 2, although he was inferior until the 59th minute of the meeting. Veteran Raul distinguished himself twice, and the guests made a double Fernando Llorente, Oscar de Marcos and Iker Muniain scored a blue.

Madrid "Atletico" supported the patronage of fellow countrymen, at home defeat with a score of 2: 1 to another German club - "Ganover -96". The victory to the "mattresses" was brought by the red-handsome Eduardo Salvio, scored a minute before the end of the game.

With a 2: 1 Dutch “Az”, popular on Thursday, the Spanish “Valencia” defeated: the goals of Brett Holman and Marten Martens were able to answer only with the accurate blow of the Topal Mehmet, Reuters reports.

And the Kharkov “Metalist” in Lisbon lost to the local “Sporting” 1: 2, retaining the chances of success in the sum of two matches. One of the balls in the Portuguese was scored by the Russian legionnaire Marat Izmailov.

The reciprocal meetings of the 1/4 finals of the Europa League in these pairs will be held on April five.