Fernandes brace leaves United in the driving seat for home leg

Bruno Fernandes scored twice, against a home team reduced to ten men after barely half an hour, and Casemiro started the rout, in a performance that should see United returning to this stadium for the Final - and, perhaps, a meeting with Tottenham - in three weeks.

BRACE: Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United scores his team's third goal. Pic: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Europa League semi-final first leg: Athletic Club 0 Manchester United 3 (Casemiro 30’, Fernandes 37’ (P), 45’)

RUBEN Amorim and Manchester United’s schizophrenic season of unpredictable and confounding inconsistency delivered them to Bilbao and the most impressive night of the manager’s short reign last night, via a win that leaves them with one foot in the Europa League Final.