Sevilla’s En-Nesyri doubles up to send dismal Manchester United crashing out

History repeated itself: if the first leg was tragedy, the second was farce. Together, they ended Manchester United’s hopes of a European title. There were nine minutes left on a wild, noisy night in Seville when David de Gea, a long way from his line, stumbled and fell, leaving the ball at the feet of Youssef En-Nesyri and the goal and their fate at his mercy. From 30 yards the Moroccan rolled it in to finish this quarter-final, scoring the third here, Sevilla’s fifth over two legs.

Manchester United had scored two of those for them in the first leg and they “assisted” the rest here to go out 5-2 on aggregate. They gave the ball away for the first and the third, both scored by En-Nesyri; between those, a Loïc Badé effort off his shoulder looped slowly, easily over the keeper and in. At the end of a night – two nights in fact – that were an extraordinary act of self-destruction from United, it is Sevilla that will be in the semi-final, this stadium bouncing about.

United offered nothing to suggest they could continue. Heavily defeated, the mistakes could not disguise that they had been beaten by much the better team here, one that has spent much of this season fighting for survival.

If De Gea and Harry Maguire were the usual suspects, they were all guilty, Erik ten Hag admitting they lacked fight and character, calling that deficit “unacceptable”. He may, though, still reflect on the first leg, where his team did not take the chances that would have ended everything early; Lisandro Martínez and Raphaël Varane were forced out; and two bizarre own goals from Tyrell Malacia and Maguire in the 84th and 92nd minutes made this possible.

Perhaps it was even inevitable, the way it happened almost as absurd as at Old Trafford.