Evening all, and welcome to AS Roma v Manchester United!

GOAL! Roma 2-2 Manchester United (Cavani) agg 3-8 What a player and what a run of form! Fred darts a ball into the box and Greenwood turns on it, laying back to Fernandes just outside the box, left of it. He looks up and over on the far side, Cavani knows, dipping into the space and attacking behind the defenders, powering home a downward header when inevitably immaculate cross arrives. That, surely, clinches a belting tie.

OK, things have clamed a little so we can reflect on a frankly ludicrous passage of play ... NO WE CAN'T!

De Gea has made an absurd quantity of saves tonight. If he'd had a bad night, 6-2 would not have been enough.

Back come United - what a tie this has been, what a match this is - Fernandes spinning on the ball in the D to open up an angle, into which he slides Greenwood. This, surely, is the clincher ... but no! He lifts over the diving Milante and fractionally wide!

Solskjaer tries to staunch the flow, sending Matic on for Pogba.

Goodness me! Now Pellegrini crosses from the right and Dzeko, from maybe six yards, turns goalwards hard ... but again the ball catches De Gea's foot when he's looking elsewhere, and flies clear.

WHAT IS GOING ON! Roma have been good in the tie and looked dangerous all the way through; now that United have stopped playing, they look liable to score at any time, and now Pedro crosses low, the ball clips De Gea's inside heel, goes through his legs, and Shaw humps clear!

OH MY DAYS! De Gea makes two brilliant reaction saves that I barely saw because i was describing the goal, but United are rocking!

GOAL! Roma 2-1 Manchester United (Cristante) agg 3-7 Fred tries to flick his way out of trouble - he's the least Brazilian Brazilian but he's still Brazillian - and Pellegrini robs him because he's also still Fred, then Cristante smashes a brilliant first-time drive into the far side-netting. Now then.

Fred is almost posthumously late on Pedro, treading on his foot and wearing the booking.

GOAL! Roma 1-1 Manchester United (Dzeko) agg 3-7 Mkhitaryan, who's been good over the tie, dashes to the line and snaps over a low cross that Pedro arrives on the end of, shinning as slice into the middle where Dzeko, who loves scoring against United, turns in from a few yards. Some poor sap then feel obliged to dash into the net to retireve the ball.

Nice from United, Telles and Van de Beek combining down the left before the latter finds the former a second time and his first touch is loose.

Telles swings over a tasty-looking cross that looks bound for Cavani, but he doesn't quite get his feet right stepping away from it in order to head it. So the ball runs loose and Greenwood retrieves it, but he can't find the ball he needs.

This made me laugh.

Given the first-leg score, the pace of the game in the first half was really good, but the intensity isn't quite the same now. Both teams are trying, but both teams also know it's over.

On which point, the one Pogba conceded last week was very silly indeed. He slid in at pace, the ball hit his arm which necessarily went above his head - what was he meant to do? how was he

Cristante humps one towards the back post and Telles clears fresh air, so Pedro knocks it back in and Maguire tries to flick away by raising the outside of his right foot towards his elbow. The ball catches his hand and there are penalty appeals - earlier in the season it's a stonewaller - but they've amended the law since then, so this can come under the accidental banner. Good.

And here Telles is, driving forward and inside-left before flicking outside to Cavani. He tries to shimmy his way inside, but Cristante blocks him off and crowds him out.

United change both full-backs, Wan-Bissaka, who's been booked, replaced by Brandon Williams and Shaw, who's played loads, replaced by Alex Telles.