Villarreal Vs Manchester United, Live Streaming: When And Where To Watch The Europa League Final- Likely XIs

For Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, winning the Europa League would mean more than avoiding another trophyless season. He's hoping Wednesday's final will be the start of something bigger. (More Football News)

Up against Spanish team Villarreal and its Europa League specialist coach Unai Emery, Solskjaer바카라�s team is bidding to avoid a fourth consecutive season without silverware. That would be the longest drought for United since the 1980s, in the early days of Alex Ferguson바카라�s otherwise trophy-filled reign.

"These are big nights for us. It might be the stepping stone for something better to come, a bright future because this team is a young team,바카라� Solskjaer said Tuesday.

"It바카라�s a team that we바카라�ve rebuilt over the last couple of years, so hopefully this is the start of something more."

Solskjaer conceded that United will likely have to do without captain and center back Harry Maguire, who made the trip to Poland for the game but didn바카라�t take part in pre-game training Tuesday with an ankle ligament injury. Striker Anthony Martial hasn바카라�t recovered from the knee injury which has kept him out for the past two months.

The final will be 22 years to the day since Solskjaer scored the winning goal for United to beat Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final. It was one of soccer바카라�s greatest-ever comebacks with both of United바카라�s goals scored in added time. Ferguson was the United manager that night and has traveled with the team to Poland for Wednesday바카라�s final.

"I'm sure the players, if they wonder about something, can ask him and he바카라�s always available for a chat because this is the club in his heart,바카라� Solskjaer said of Ferguson.

United hasn바카라�t won a trophy of any kind since Jose Mourinho바카라�s team comfortably beat Ajax 2-0 in the 2017 Europa League final. Under Solskjaer, the team reached the semifinals of the same competition last season before giving up a 1-0 lead in a 2-1 loss to eventual champion Sevilla.

Three runs to the latter stages of the Europa League in five seasons would count as success for many clubs, but for United it바카라�s also a reminder of the club바카라�s failure to challenge for the bigger prize in the Champions League.

This season, United ended up in the Europa League after a slumping to a 3-2 loss against Leipzig in the last game of the Champions League group stage.

Solskjaer바카라�s team rescued the season with a second-place Premier League finish, the best for United since 2018. For them, ideally Wednesday바카라�s game will be the club바카라�s last in the Europa League for some time to come.

Just being in the final is groundbreaking for Villarreal, which has never before played for a major European trophy. Coach Emery is heading into his fifth final in the competition after three consecutive wins with Sevilla from 2014 through 2016 and being runner-up with Arsenal in 2019.

Emery was fired by Arsenal in November 2019 and joined Villarreal the following July. To reach the final, Emery had to go back to Arsenal to wrap up a 2-1 win on aggregate in the semifinals against his former team.

"We have got answers from the team at some important moments of the season so we know now we have a very, very strong and robust team," Emery said Tuesday.

"Of course Manchester United can be (the) favorite, they are very good and if they play their best they can beat anyone, but we will try and find some responses against this big team.바카라�

A win for Villarreal would delight traveling Spanish fans 바카라� each club received 2,000 tickets 바카라� at the game in Poland. It is being played with a reduced attendance of 9,500, or 25% of stadium capacity, because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Villarreal victory would also stop an English sweep of European soccer바카라�s top competitions, with Chelsea playing Manchester City in the Champions League final in Porto on Saturday. Villarreal is the only finalist in either competition which wasn바카라�t part of the failed attempt to create a breakaway European Super League this season. ( With inputs from AP)  

Match Details

Match: Europa League Final Villarreal vs Manchester United

Date: 27-5-2021

Time: 12:30am onwards

Venue: Gdansk Stadium, Poland

Live streaming: Sony TEN 2 and Sony TEN 2 HD in India. and SonyLIV app.

Likely XI:
Manchester Utd : De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Tuanzebe, Lindelof, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; Greenwood, Fernandes, Pogba; Cavani

Villarreal: Rulli; Pedraza, Torres, Albiol, Gaspar; Capoue, Dani Parejo, Trigueros; Pino, Moreno, Bacca