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Barcelona are not a club who plan or generally aspire to win the Europa League, but another disappointing Champions League campaign sees them drop into the competition for a second successive season. It does give them the chance to complete the traditional set of major European honours, though, so there should be a little extra […]
Barcelona head coach Xavi has conceded that his side have received the ‘most difficult opponent’ in their Europa League play-off after being drawn with Manchester United. For a second season running, Xavi has failed to guide Barça through the group stages of the Champions League and will return to Europe’s second-tier competition on the other […]
The Europa League play-off, which pits the group stage runners-up in the Europa League vs. the third place teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage, has been made and it’s thrown up an all-time great clash. The first fixture drawn was, amazingly, Barcelona vs Manchester United – teams with eight European Cup crowns between […]
Last season’s introduction of the Europa Conference League has undeniably been beneficial for the lower echelons of European football. The 2022/23 campaign’s competition (including qualifying rounds) has featured clubs from a whopping 54 associations and, while we can’t claim to have followed Lithuanian outfit Valmiera’s 5-2 aggregate defeat to Macedonian side Shkendija in the second […]
Manchester United will compete in the knockout play-off round of the Europa League despite winning at Real Sociedad on Thursday night. Chasing a two-goal win to usurp the La Liga side at the top of Group E, Alejandro Garnacho gave the Red Devils the quick start they needed and his first ever senior club goal […]
