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Your support makes all the difference.The Uefa Europa League draw takes place today with Manchester United, Wolves and Rangers set to discover their fates.
United cruised into the last-16 with a win 6-1 aggregate win over Club Brugge in the first knockout round. Odion Ighalo scored his first goal for the club at Old Trafford on Thursday evening while fellow January signing Bruno Fernandes again impressed with a goal from the penalty spot. Wolves joined them in the next round despite second-leg defeat in Spain to Espanyol. Rangers produced a fine performance to win in Portugal on Wednesday and scrape past Braga. Arsenal and Celtic weren’t so fortunate, however, both suffering surprise exits at the hands of Olympiacos and Copenhagen, respectively.
We’ll have all the latest from last-16 draw right here:
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Teams
Olympiacos
Basel
Bayer Leverkusen
Copenhagen
Eintracht Frankfurt/Salzburg
Getafe
Inter Milan
LASK
Manchester United
Rangers
Roma
Istanbul Basaksehir
Sevilla
Shakhtar Donetsk
Wolfsburg
Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo admits the European competition is 'massive' for his side.
"I'm very proud with the way the players have been working and dedicating themselves, and I think it has been massive," he said.
"It's massive for the club, massive for the city and we are happy, but we want to keep going.
"Keep going with the hard work, and this gel between players is amazing, but we need to keep on going."
Rangers will be looking to do better than the last time that they reached the knock-out stages back in 2011, when they went out to PSV in the last 16 stage.
Istanbul Basaksehir is a team with a host of former Premier League stars. Former Man City star Robinho, ex-Arsenal left-back Gael Clichy and Slovakian Martin Skrtel, who played a number of seasons with Liverpool all play all their football with the Turkish club.
The Turkish side finished 2nd in the league last season, and play host to Danish champions FC Copenhagen.
German club Wolfsburg have been drawn against Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk in the next round.
The first leg will be played at the Volkswagen arena, with the second leg being played in Kharkiv as Shakhtar are still not able to play their home matches in Donetsk, as the conflict in Ukraine continues.
Inter Milan V Getafe will no doubt be a great game for the neutral.
The Italians are pushing for the Serie A title, whilst Getafe are in 4th position in La Liga. The Spanish side are having a great season and are hoping to secure a Champions League spot for next season.
It is unclear whether this match will be played in front of the San Siro faithful, or behind closed doors at this stage. Remember Inter's home match last night against Ludogorets was played behind closed doors after the outbreak of Coronavirus in Northern Italy.
In the tie of the round, three times Europa League champions Sevilla will take on Roma.
Sevilla are challenging for a Champions League spot in La Liga, whilst Roma currently sit in 5th position, three points off of the Champions League places in Serie A.
Frankfurt/Salzburg will face Swiss giants Basel.
Basel's opponents will be decided in the re-arranged fixture which will be played in Salzburg today at 5pm GMT.
It looks like Frankfurt will be facing Basel after their 4-1 victory at home in the 1st leg.
Finally, LASK, a team from the Austrian city of Linz will play host to English giants Manchester United.
The Austrian side are the lowest ranked team left in the competition, and are participating in the Europa League knockout stages for the first time in their history.
However, the Austrian side are not to be underestimated, as they currently sit top of the Austrian Bundesliga, three points ahead of Red Bull Salzburg.
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