The Europa League begins right now with the Playoff Phase, in which several clubs from the ‘Old Continent’ will play round-trip duels with the aim of getting a ticket to the round of 16.
Let us remember that teams like Bayer Leverkusen, Atalanta, West Ham, Brighton & Hove Albion, Liverpool, Villarreal, Slavia Prague, Rangers are already in the round of 16 and are waiting for their direct rivals.
Europa League playoff matches
12:45 | Feyenoord vs Roma | Feyenoord Stadium
12:45 | Young Boys vs Sporting CP | Stadion Wankdorf
12:45 | Galatasaray vs Sparta Praha | Rams Park
12:45 | Shakhtar Donetsk vs Olympique Marseille | Volksparkstadion
15:00 | Milan vs Rennes | San Siro
15:00 | Lens vs Freiburg | Estadio Bollaert-Delelis
15:00 | Benfica vs Toulouse | Luz Stadium
15:00 | Sporting Braga vs Karabakh | Estadio Municipal de Braga
The right back of Sporting de Portugal, Iván Fresneda, trained at Real Valladolid and one of the jewels of the Spanish under-19 team, will be able to reappear next Thursday in the Europa League against Young Boys after overcoming a shoulder injury that It has been in dry dock for three months.
The former Real Valladolid player until last summer, when he signed a contract with the Portuguese club until June 2028, injured his left shoulder in mid-November and underwent surgery to “correct instability” in the joint, as the Lisbon club revealed then. .
This Tuesday the club has already shown images of the Pucelano youth player with the rest of his teammates on the pitch.
Since joining the Portuguese team, the 19-year-old footballer from Madrid has played three games in the Europa League, jumped onto the pitch for 5 minutes on the first day of the Portuguese League against Braga and played half-time in the Copa de Portugal.