andre greipel sprints to victory on stage five of the paris to nice race. after all that champions league excitement on wednesday, it's the turn of the europa league to take centre stage. and there was a 6 goal thriller in france as lyon came from behind to beat roma in the first leg of the last 16 tie. the home side had taken the lead after 8 minutes but mohamed salah drew the italians level on 20 minutes, before on—loan spurs defender federico fazio put roma ahead just after the half hour — at this point all one way traffic. the second half though belonging to lyon. they scored 3 unanswered goal, including a rocket from alexander lacazette in injury time to put themselves in the driving seat to reach the quarter finals. 4—2 final score. meanwhile manchester united grabbed a vital away goal as they drew 1—1 at russian side rostov. henrikh mkhitaryan‘s close—range finish after 35 minutes giving united the lead but despite showing very little going forward up to that point the hosts equalized through aleksandr bukharov. it leaves things finally poised for th