There were few chances in the first half and the game was goalless at the interval, but Plzen scored just three minutes after play resumed after an awful mistake from Andre Onana.
Onana attempted to play a pass out from the back and it was intercepted. Matej Vydra found the back of the net with a simple finish to give his side a shock lead and Ruben Amorim reacted by replacing Marcus Rashford with Hojlund, which proved to be an inspired substitution.
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