Getafe pulled off a surprise 2-0 home win over last year’s Champions League semi-finalist Ajax Amsterdam, while Manchester United was held 1-1 at Club Brugge. Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Diogo Jota scored a second successive hat-trick in the competition to lead his side to a 4-0 win over Espanyol.
Arsenal won 1-0 at Olympiakos Piraeus with a late Alexandre Lacazette goal. Inter was frustrated by its Bulgarian opponent until Danish playmaker Eriksen fired a low shot into the net from just outside the penalty area in the 71st minute. Substitute Romelu Lukaku sealed Inter’s win with a stoppage time penalty.
The Belgian struck his 22nd goal of the season after Anicet Andrianantenaina was judged to have handled following a VAR review. United was quickly in trouble in Belgium when Emmanuel Dennis lobbed the ball over Sergio Romero to give Brugge a 15th-minute lead.
But, Anthony Martial levelled in the 36th minute when he raced through to place a shot past Simon Mignolet. At Molineux, Jota opened his account in the first half for Wolves when he poked in from close range and fellow Portuguese Ruben Neves volleyed the second early in the second half.
Jota fired home the third from a Matt Doherty pass before completing his hat-trick with a strike from the edge of the box. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bukayo Saka combined to set up an easy finish for Frenchman Lacazette, who netted the winner for Arsenal in the 81st minute.
Brazilian pair Deyverson and Kenedy scored in each half for Getafe against Ajax. There was a remarkable comeback by Rangers, which scored three goals in the last half hour to beat Braga 3-2 after trailing 0-2 to the Portuguese visitor. Daichi Kamada scored a hat-trick to help Eintracht Frankfurt to a 4-1 win over RB Salzburg.
Viktor Kovalenko grabbed the winner as Shakhtar Donetsk beat Benfica 2-1 and Sporting defeated Istanbul Basaksehir 3-1. Youssef En-Nesyri equalised as Sevilla rescued a 1-1 draw at Cluj after Ciprian Deac put the Romanians ahead.
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