Europa League quarter-finals: Man Utd and Wolves to face semi-finals

The wolves will be in the quarter-finals against Sevilla on Tuesday on a mini tour called ”the last eight”’, all matches will be played at 4 venues in Germany.

The two Premier League groups will face off in the semi-finals in Cologne on 17 August if they are successful in their quarter-finals. The latter will take place in the same location on August 21.

The winners will secure a spot in the Champions League for next season, and after completing seventh place in the Premier League, the Wolves will have to win the tournament to be in Europe.

United finished third and is already at the 2020-12 Champions League organization level, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is desperate to claim his first trophy as boss.

In addition to England, Ukraine (Shakhtar Donetsk), Switzerland (Basilea), Denmark (FC Copenhagen), Italy (Inter Milan), Germany (Bayer Leverkusen) and Spain (Sevilla) are represented in the quarter-finals.

Teams from Spain and England have won the 8 Europa League finals: Atletico Madrid (2012, 2018), Chelsea (2013, 2019), Sevilla (2014, 2015, 2016) and Manchester United (2017).

It is Inter’s first European quarter-final since the 2010-11 Champions League, while Leverkusen has reached the eighth round of a European primary festival for the first time since the 2007–08 UEFA Cup.

FC Copenhagen is the first Danish team to have been in the European quarter-finals since Brondby in 1996-97.

Shakhtar reached their first European quarter-final since 2015-16 and this is the first European match in the Basel round of eighth round since the 2013-14 Europa League.

The 2019–2020 Europa League final will take place in Gdansk, Poland, on 27 May.

However, the festival was suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, before resuming on August 5, and the format of the finals was changed, with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals closed all in Germany. Doors.

Poland will now host the 2020-21 final instead.

In what is necessarily a knockout tournament, Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Gelsenkirchen will house quarter-finals.

Cologne will also host the first semi-final on 16 August between the winners of Wolves-Sevilla and Manchester United-FC Copenhagen, with Dusseldorf at the time of the semi-final on 17 August between Inter Milan-Bayer winner Leverkusen and Shakhtar Donetsk-Béle. .

Wolves’ quarter-final against five-time winners Sevilla takes place at the home of MSV Duisburg, who play in the third tier of football in Germany.

The four quarter-finals are matches. If the scores are equivalent after 90 minutes, there will be additional time and consequences if needed.

Teams will be able to make five substitutions but, to limit the number of stoppages, they will only be allowed to make these changes at three points in the game.

Additional replacement will be allowed during overtime.

If the Wolves, in their first European quarter-final in 48 years, win the Europa League, England will get 8 spots in Europe next season: in the Champions League (Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Wolves) and 3 in the Europa League (Leicester, Arsenal, Tottenham).

BT Sport will broadcast the four quarter-finals, while BBC Radio will comment live on the manchester United-FC Copenhagen match on Monday and the Wolves’ sevillaer match on Tuesday.

The BBC Sport online page will have a compilation, live text observation and reactions on both nights.

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