Manchester United failed in their bid to avoid the Europa League playoffs despite beating Real Sociedad 1-0 away on Thursday.
It was a poor display from Erik ten Hag’s side after Alejandro Garnacho opened the scoring. Garnacho finished well in the 17th minute to surpass George Best as United’s youngest ever non-English scorer in Europe at 18.
But the Red Devils were left to rue their defeat to the Spaniards at Old Trafford on matchday one as they missed out on topping the group on goal difference.
Now, they must play a home and away tie against teams that dropped out of the Champions League like Barcelona, Juventus and even Ronaldo’s former club Sporting.
The full line-up of teams who will be in the playoff draw on Monday is as follows:
Europa League runners-up: Roma, Manchester United, PSV Eindhoven, Midtjylland, Monaco, Nantes, Rennes, Union Berlin.
Champions League third-placed clubs: Ajax, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus, RB Salzburg, Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting.
Arsenal and Sociedad will be joined by Fenerbahce, Real Betis, Union Saint-Gilloise, Feyenoord, Freiburg and Ferencvaros in progressing directly to the last 16.