After being knocked out of the Champions League in the final group game, Manchester United were sent doen to the Europa League and here's a look at the teams the Red Devils could face in the knockout stage. A total of 8 teams, all third placed teams from each CL group were demoted to ten Europa from the Champions League.
Here is how the round of 32 draw works. The 32 teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams. The seeded teams are the 12 group winners and the 4 best teams demoted from the CL while the unseeded teams are the 12 runners ups and 4 teams with the least points demoted from the Champions League.
Seeded teams
Rangers
Arsenal
Dinamo Zagreb
Hoffenheim
Roma
Villareal
Bayer Leverkusen
PSV
Napoli
Leicester City
AC Milan
Tottenham
Four best Champions League third-placed sides
Manchester United
Shakhtar Donetsk
Club Brugge
Ajax
Unseeded teams
Crvena zvezda
Young Boys
Molde
Slavia Prague
Benfica
Granada
Real Sociedad
Braga
Lille
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Royal Antwerp
Wolfsberger AC
Four Champions League third-placed sides
Salzburg
Olympiacos
Krasnodar
Dynamo Kyiv
Each of the teams in Group 1 will be drawn against a team in group 2 with those in group 1 playing the first leg away from home. However, teams from the same league can't play against each other but with no English dude in the unseeded pot, Man Utd can get any of the opponents in group 2.
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