Angel di Maria scored a hat-trick as Juventus reached the Europa
League last 16 on Thursday with a 3-0 play-off second leg win over
Nantes, Trend
reports citing Bein Sports.
The result allowed the Italian giants to progress 4-1 on
aggregate.
Argentine World Cup winner Di Maria opened the scoring after
five minutes and then added a 20th-minute penalty.
Di Maria completed his hat-trick in the 78th minute, in a game
where the French side had been reduced to 10 men after just a
quarter of an hour when Nicolas Pallois was red-carded for
handball.
Six-time champions Sevilla went down to a 2-0 defeat to PSV
Eindhoven in the Netherlands but progressed 3-2 on aggregate.
Luuk de Jong and Fabio Silva hit late goals for the Dutch team
who had Mauro Junior sent off in stoppage time.
Sporting Lisbon were also amongst the early winners, a 4-0
victory at Midtjylland in Denmark sealing a 5-1 victory.
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