Athletic will face This Thursday in San Mamés the first of the two games that will face Manchester United For a position in the final that will be played on May 21 in the Cathedral and for which in the other part of the box they will fight Bodo Glimt and Tottenham. The lions cross with a rival who does not know the defeat in the 12 games he has played in this edition of the Europa Leaguewhere it presents a balance of 28 goals in favor and 17 against. In the six outputs he has always obtained positive results: he won FCSB (exsteaua) and Viktoria Plzen and got equalized before Porto, Fenerbahce. Real Sociedad and Lyon.
Los Red Devils They can boast of being andThe only 108 team that have taken part in the final phase of the three European competitions that has not even lamented a defeat. Athletic is warned, although the good streak of this United campaign It clashes in front with their background in San Mamés: twice they played in the old stadium and the two were defeated. In the 56-57 course they lost 5-3 at the start of the quarterfinals of the European Cup (then won 3-0 in Manchester and lifted the tie) and in 2012 they gave 2-1 after having also lost by 2-3 in the first match of the Eighth Eighth of Europa League.
The bet of the Red Devils
El Manchester United It grabs the Europa League as a way of entrance to the Champions Olympus since in the Premier this course occupy one more than discreet fourteenth position. “With the template we have, you have to choose and prioritize a competition. And the Europa League is very important for the club,” said Rubén Amorim, Athletic's rival technician. In the historical balance Manchester United, regardless of its six continental titles, has Much more continental baggage than Athletic. This Thursday will play the Semifinal Decimoctava of UEFA Tournaments for the Third of the Lions.
With the workforce we have to choose and prioritize a competition. And the Europa League is very important for the club
Winning the Europa League offers a direct ticket for Champions League. While Athletic can even approach it through the league, the United for a long time that he only finds his focus on a good path in the Europa League. And on that tour he has hador surprising matches, like the one who won the Royal Society with a crazy arbitration In the round of 16. That they throw you out of Europe is never easy but more when it is in this way by how easy it was to whistle one thing in favor of one and how difficult it was to whist.
