Europa League

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its back and we are in the second half of the first two-second leg ties.
FC Copenhagen are 3-0 up against Istanbul Basaksehir (3-1 on aggregate), while Shakhtar Donetsk are drawing 0-0 with Wolfsburg but lead 2-1 on aggregate.

The road to the Europa League final

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Uefa publish European protocols

Simon Stone
BBC Sport
To coincide with the restart of European competition, Uefa have published their protocols for the 'Final 8' tournaments in both the Europa League and Champions League.
A lot of it is what you would expect. Players and management will be tested either two or three days before the first game - and then again the day before each match - with the results delivered a minimum of six hours before kick-off.

However, there is strict guidance around what squads can do - and it doesn't sound like there will be much fun to be had in either Portugal or Germany.
"Team members (both players and technical staff) must not leave the hotel unless it is under previously agreed and organized conditions and does not involve coming into contact with anyone outside of their group."



Pogba, Rashford, Fernandes among United bench
Man Utd v LASK (20:00 BST)-10.00PM

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer names two changes to the side which defeated LASK 5-0 in the first leg.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Jesse Lingard start in place of Luke Shaw and Bruno Fernandes.
Fernades, Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood are among the names on the bench.

Man Utd XI: Romero, Fosu-Mensah, Bailly, Maguire, Williams, Mata, McTominay, Fred, Lingard, James, Ighalo
Bench: Grant, Pogba, Martial, Rashford, Pereira, Bruno Fernandes, Greenwood, Wan-Bissaka, Matic, Garner, Chong, Mengi
There are four changes for LASK from the first leg, as Andres Andrade, Philipp Wiesinger, Marko Raguz and Husein Balic come in.

LASK XI: Schlager, Andrade, Trauner, Wiesinger, Renner, Michorl, Holland, Ranftl, Balic, Raguz, Frieser
Bench: Lawal, Gebauer, Filipovic, Reiter, Ramsebner, Muller, Wostry, Haudum, Sabitzer, Celic


What happened in the first leg?
Man Utd v LASK (20:00 BST)
It was so long ago, you can be forgiven for forgetting what happened in the first leg...

But Manchester United have essentially booked their place in the quarter-finals after they thrashed LASK 5-0 in front of a crowd of 500 in Austria.
It was in a largely empty Linzer Stadion after the Austrian government had restricted the attendance in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Odion Ighalo's superb goal set United on their way, before Daniel James, Juan Mata, Mason Greenwood and Andreas Pereira completed the rout.

 

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Premier League clubs involved in the latter stages of European cup competitions will be given a delayed start to the 2020-21 season.

Precise details around the calendar for next season will not be decided until later this month.

But it has already been decided in principle that all clubs should be given a minimum amount of time off.

Manchester City and Chelsea are in the Champions League with Manchester United and Wolves in the Europa League.

A 30-day period has generally been accepted, which would mean any club involved in the 'Final Eight' stages of the Champions League or Europa League will not start their campaigns on 12 September when the new Premier League will begin.
 

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English or Spanish?
Man Utd v LASK (20:00 BST)
The last eight Europa Leagues have been won by English or Spanish teams. Only once in the 10 years since the Uefa Cup was rebranded have another country's team lifted the cup.

Sevilla - who won it three times in a row from 2014 to 2016 - and 2017 winners Manchester United are the only former Europa League winners in this year's last 16.

Atletico Madrid (2010, 2012, 2018), Chelsea (2013, 2019) and Porto (2011) are the only other teams to win it.
Among the other favourites to win the tournament are Inter Milan, Bayer Leverkusen and Sevilla.
 
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