UEFA Europa League draw: Manchester United to face Grenada in quarter-finals

Manchester United were paired with Spanish side Grenada in Friday’s draw for the quarter-finals of the Europa League, while Arsenal will take on Slavia Prague. Ole Gunnar Solskar’s United players, who defeated AC Milan in the final 16, are scheduled to play in the first leg on 8 April, but it remains to be seen where the match will take place. The Old Trafford club faced Spanish opponents in Real Sociedad in the last 32, but the first leg of that tie was moved to Turin in Italy due to a ban on travel from the UK to Spain.

Grenada are in Europe for the first time since La Liga finished seventh in the previous season. The Southern Spain team defeated PSV Eindhoven in the group stage and defeated Napoli in the final 32 before defeating Soljesar old club Molde of Norway in the round of 16.

Granada coach Diego Martinez has previously won the Europa League during his time as an assistant coach at Sevilla.

Meanwhile, Ajax will face Roma with the winners of the quarter-finals playing United or Grenada in the Final Four. United defeated Ajax in the 2017 Europa League final.

Arsenal are set to host Slavia in their quarter-final first leg and will be wary of the runaway Czech League leaders, who have edged out Leicester City and the Scottish champions Rangers in the last two rounds.

However if the Gunners could face their former coach Unai Emery in their semi-finals.

Emery’s Villarreal will take on final-16 winner Dinamo Zagreb of Tottenham Hotspur in the other quarter-finals.

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Emery took Arsenal to the Europa League final in 2019, when they lost to Chelsea in Baku.

The final of this season’s competition is to be played on 26 May in the Polish city of Gdaस्कsk.