It doesn't go anymore. Athletic has before him an impossible mission for the next May 21 in the Europa League final to be held in San Mamés. The reigning illusion in Bilbao jumped a week ago because of the 0-3 of the first leg of this semifinal against Manchester United in San Mamés. In case the company in Old Trafford was already complicated enough, Valverde has fallen from the call the brothers Williams and Sancet for injury and lived by sanction.
The lions are still lost. On the contrary. The rojiblancos come to this appointment in England with the indisged intention of competing as best as possible to try to complete a feat of those that will be remembered all life. No one in the Bilbao costumes delivers the spoon beforehand, although no one hides that the company seems complicated not, the following.
The clash in the mythical Old Trafford is scheduled for 9 pm. The arbitration will be carried out by the German Daniel Siebert, who had never been pidered to Athletic, with his compatriot Christian Dingert in the VAR. It is estimated that around 4,000 rojiblancos fans will meet in the stands.
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Normality and abnormality
The tranquility prevails in the United costumes after the 0-3 of San Mamés. Both Ruben Amorim and his squad have assumed that the team's goal this season is none other than winning the Europa League to compete the next campaign in the Champions League. In the domestic tournament, curiously, Manchester team occupies the fifteenth place.
The Portuguese coach, aware of the situation, faced the last liguero with a good part of his substitutes, so everything indicates that today he will repeat against Athletic an eleven equal to or very similar to that of last week in San Mamés. If so; The United will form with Onana tonight; Lindelof, Maguire, Yoro; Mazraoui, Ugarte, Casemiro, Dorgu; Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes ,; and Hojlund. The Dutch of Ligt, who had a few minutes in San Mamés, causes low because of physical problems.
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Valverde will have much more complicated than Amorim to make his titular alignment. The rojiblanco coach has to form an eleven without the presence of the brothers Williams, Sancet and Vivian. Four of the most important lions on the squad while Unai Simon, the fifth, will stay on the bench. The Athletic, in any case, will go to the assault of Old Trafford with a team that should not vary much from the one formed by Agirrezabala; From Marcos or Gorosabel, Yeray, Paredes, Yuri; Galarreta, Jauregizar; Djaló, Unai Gómez, Berenguer; and Maroan.
