The match this past Thursday Shakhtar Donetsk (first leg of the Europa League playoffs) was not just another game for the former Barcelona player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyangwho scored his team’s only goal, the Marseillesand make history by sharing a continental record.
Marseille and Shakhtar (playing at home in Hamburg) drew (2-2) and the tie will be decided on February 22 at the Vélodrome stadium. Aubameyang was the star: he scored the Marseille team’s first goal (64′) and assisted the second Iliman Ndiaye (90′). The goals of the Ukrainian team are the work of Mykola Matviyenko (68′) and Eguinaldo (92′).
In his aim, Aubameyang equalized with Radamel Falcao, currently in the range of Ray, as top scorer in Europa League history: 30. The Gabonese star has scored goals in this competition with Borussia Dortmund (8), Arsenal (14), Barcelona (2) and Marseille (6). The former Barça player wants to continue to progress in the tournament and establish a new single record.
Then Aubameyang and Falcaothose who achieved the most ‘targets’ in the said competition were Aritz Aduriz and Romelu Lukaku (with 26 each of them). Aduriz achieved them all by Athleticbecause, although he played 6 games in the Europa League with Valenciain these matches he could not score).
Goal number 26 Lukaku in the Europa League allowed the Rome on Thursday take an important 1-1 against Feyenoord also in Rotterdam in the first leg of the playoffs of the said competition, in search of a spot in the round of 16.
Source: La Verdad
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