{"id":514659,"date":"2019-08-30T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=514659"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:26:15","slug":"manchester-united-and-arsenal-find-out-who-they-will-face-in-uefa-europa-league-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/08\/30\/manchester-united-and-arsenal-find-out-who-they-will-face-in-uefa-europa-league-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United and Arsenal Find Out Who They Will Face In UEFA Europa League Group Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League sides <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/feeds\/arsenalfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a> have found out who they will be facing in the 2019\/20 UEFA Europa League Group Stage. They will battle it out alongside 46 other teams for a place in the final in May.<\/p>\n<h2>UEFA Europa League Group Stage Draw<\/h2>\n<h3>Manchester United<\/h3>\n<p>Manchester United were the last side out of Pot One and were dealt a long trip to Kazakhstan to face FC Astana. It will be the first time in their history that they face Astana when the two sides meet.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the Kazakhstan side, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s side will face trips to Serbia and Holland to face Partizan Belgrade and AZ Alkmaar retrospectively.<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal were dealt a kind draw travel wise as they face trips to Germany, Belgium and Portugal. They face last seasons quarter finalist&#8217;s Eintracht Frankfurt in Group F, as well as Standard Liege and Portuguese side Vitoria.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners will be hoping to go one better this season, as they finished runners-up in the competition last season.<\/p>\n<h3>Wolverhampton Wanders<\/h3>\n<p>After negotiating the qualifying rounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> earned their place in the group stage thanks to goals from<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b561db50\/Raul-Jimenez\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Raul Jimenez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/5a7301ae\/Leander-Dendoncker\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leander Dendoncker<\/a>. They will face Besiktas, Braga and Slovakian champions Slovan Bratislava.<\/p>\n<h3>Europa League Group Stage Draw In Full<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Group A &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Sevilla, Apoel, Qarabag FK, Dundelange<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Dynamo Kiev, FC Copenhagen, Malmo, FC Lugano<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>FC Basel, FC Krasnodar, Getafe, Trabzonspor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group D &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Sporting Lisbon, PSV, Rosenborg, LASK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group E &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Lazio, Celtic, Stade Rennes, CFR Cluj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group F &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Arsenal, Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege, Vitoria SC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group G &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>FC Porto, BSC Young Boys, Feyenoord, Rangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group H &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>CSKA Moscow, Ludogorets, Espanyol, Ferencvarosi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group I &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Wolfsburg, Gent, ASSE St Etienne, FC Olexandriya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group J &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>AS Roma, Borussia Monchengladbach, Istanbul Basakehir, Wolfsberger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group K &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Besiktas, Braga, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Slovan Bratislava<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group L &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Manchester United, FC Astana, Partizan Belgrade, AZ Alkmaar<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1164774951\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1164774951?et=BTRQpWY4QylVY6ULxBdANg&amp;tld=co.uk&amp;sig=jqcMUolvfRtx_YJSq3EexGGPfYfjoW_JWG4rWyn0yEg=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United, Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers have found out who they will be facing in the UEFA Europa League group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":514752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,2,1828,18,2510],"tags":[32738,92,4167,36,833,136],"class_list":["post-514659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-featured","category-fixtures","category-manchester-united","category-wolves","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-europa-league","tag-fc-astana","tag-manchester-united","tag-wolverhampton-wanderers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}