Europa League: Monaco surprise Bayer Leverkusen in playoff, Roma suffer late defeat at RB Salzburg

Monaco beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 in the first leg of their Europa League playoff thanks to a 92nd-minute winner, while Juventus were held by Nantes and Roma lost at RB Salzburg.

Xabi Alonso saw his Leverkusen side go behind to an early Lukas Hradecky own goal, before two second-half strikes from Moussa Diaby and then Florian Wirtz appeared to set the hosts up for a comeback victory.

However, a late goal from Krepin Diatta was followed by an injury-time winner from Axel Disasi to give the Ligue 1 outfit their own successful comeback.

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Sevilla scored three goals in quick succession without response to defeat Dutch opponents PSV Eindhoven in Spain.

Youssef En-Nesyri scored in first-half injury-time, then Lucas Ocampos scored the second five minutes into the second half, and on 55 minutes, Nemanja Gudelj made it 3-0.

Sporting Lisbon equalised in the 94th minute through Sebastian Coates to cancel out Emam Ashour’s opener for Danish side FC Midtjylland, as the game finished 1-1 in Portugal.

RB Salzburg pulled off a late win against in-form Roma as Nicolas Capaldo popped up with an 88th-minute winner against Jose Mourinho’s side, for their first-leg tie in Austria.

Manchester United played out a thrilling 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou against Barcelona in a frenetic encounter that might well have been the tie of the round.

Erik ten Hag’s former side Ajax continued their indifferent form this season as they drew 0-0 at home to Bundesliga side Union Berlin.

The Polish Army Stadium hosted Shakhtar Donetsk’s tie against Rennes, with the Ukrainian side coming away with a 2-1 victory ahead of next week’s return leg.

In the Europa Conference League, another Ukrainian side, Dnipro-1, travelled to Cyprus to take on AEK Larnaca, with Angel Garcia scoring the winner late on for the Cypriot league leaders.

Lazio had veteran goalscorer Ciro Immobile to thank for his winner scored late in the first half to defeat Romanian side Cluj, with Patric sent off for the Italians after just 15 minutes.

Partizan scored at the end of the first half as they travelled to Sheriff, with Ricardo Jorge Pieres Gomes hitting the winner five minutes before Igor Vujacic saw red on 50 minutes.

Gent travelled to Azeri side Qarabag as the home team won 1-0.

In Portugal, Fiorentina made light work of Braga who had Vitor Tormena sent off just before the hour mark, as Luka Jovic and Arthur Cabral both bagged a brace.

Turkey’s Trabzonspor had a Jens Stryger Larsen strike to thank for a 1-0 win over Switzerland’s Basel.

Sweden’s Bodo/Glimt hosted Polish side Lech Poznan, and remain in with a chance of progression to the next round after securing a 0-0 draw,

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