Oswaldo Alanis comes away with this award thanks, in large part, to his opening goal free kick that brought the two
legged tie level on aggregate.
Not exact matches
They won the first
leg 3 - 0 but this did not put the
tie beyond doubt as they had to travel to Quito for the second
leg at close to 10000 feet above sea
level.
But the gulf in talent
level was just too high, and City smothered all of Basel's attempts to find their way into the
tie, leaving little doubt as to the final result even before the second
leg kicks off.
Zenit St Petersburg defender Branislav Ivanovic has admitted that he was «surprised» by the performance
levels of Celtic during the first
leg of the Europa League round of 32
tie.
The Welsh Premier League side had been trailing 2 - 1 from the first
leg, but Scott Ruscoe's side
levelled the
tie on aggregate at the Estadio Algarve after 37 minutes when defender Ivan Moya diverted a free - kick from Ryan Brobbell into his own net.
United go into the second -
leg of their last 16
tie level at 0 - 0, but they largely had De Gea to thank for keeping them in the game as he made a string of fine saves throughout the contest, including one from point blank range just before the break.
Unfortunately, when he came on in the second
leg of that
tie, he did not have the same
level of performance and even skied a sitter in extra time.
Juventus had wiped out Real Madrid's three - goal advantage from the first
leg with Mario Mandzukic scoring twice before Blaise Matuidi
levelled the
tie at 3 - 3 after an hour.