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Manchester United take the wrong player off for the right man in Juan Mata

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  Man United needed extra-time and another Bruno Fernandes penalty to beat Copenhagen in their Europa League quarter-final but Juan Mata made the difference. Manchester United cannot fully concentrate on Jadon Sancho just yet in this neverending season. Their exhausting defeat of Copenhagen was so long it almost ticked over to the date that their season started and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Reds will go marching on beyond a 60th game. This was a nervier night than even the Copenhagen coach Stale Solbakken envisaged and  United  suffered some ominous harbingers. A penalty was overruled, the Video Assistant Referee denied them, Mason Greenwood and Bruno Fernandes pinged both uprights, Anthony Martial was ostentatiously denied by the goalkeeper and there was extra-time. Harry Maguire was piqued by the French official, Scott McTominay smacked his seat in anger and the United players and staff raised their hands in disbelief at an errant Fernandes pass. If anything summarised the...