Manchester United celebrated their return to the Champions League with a thrashing of Sabah

In the match of the opening round of the main stage of the Champions League, Manchester United defeated Azerbaijan Sabah with a score of 4:0. The score in the match was opened in the 27th minute, when Patrick Dorgu received the ball on the left flank and immediately shot to the goal line, from where Mateus Cunha crossed the ball into the goal. Then, in the 42nd minute, Bruno Fernandes shot the goal after a great combination of the "red devils" and an assist from Yuri Tielemans. Three minutes later, Brian Mbemo brought Benjamin Sesko face to face and the Slovenian beat the goalkeeper and scored the third goal into the opponent's goal. In the middle of the second half, the final point in the match was put by Lisandro Martinez, who in the 71st minute finished the ball into the goal net after drawing a standard. It should be noted that for Manchester United this was the first match in the Champions League since the 2023/24 season. For Sabah, this is the debut season in the main European Cup. Manchester United — Sabah 4:0 Goals: Cunha, 27, Fernandes, 42, Sesko, 45, Martinez, 68. Manchester United: Lammens — Mazraoui, Yoro, Martinez, Dorgu (Amass, 72) — Thielemans (Mount, 46), Mainu (Santos, 64) — Mbemo (Lacey, 72), Fernandes, Cunha — Sesko (Zierkze, 64). Sabah: Pokatilov - Zedadka (Almeida, 75), Dashdamirov, McCarthy, Pukhach - Rakhmonaliev (Khaibulayev, 71), Lepinyitsa - Perris (Isaev, 63), Simych (Keiros, 75), Nvachukwu (Mbina, 46) - Mikels. Warning: Dorgu — Lepiñica.