Europa League draw: Watch full replay Uefa group stage 2019 draw as Man Utd and Arsenal learnt fate
Watch a full replay of the 2019/20 Uefa Europa League group stage draw
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United face a couple of long-distance midweek trips after being drawn in a Europa League group with Astana of Kazakhstan, Partizan Belgrade and AZ Alkmaar.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team are set to play in Group L and their away clash with Astana will see United make a 6,000 mile round trip to Nur-Sultan.
Last season's finalists Arsenal have been drawn against Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege and Vitoria Guimaraes. Frankfurt reached the semi-finals last term before being knocked out by Chelsea.
Wolves have been put in a group with Besiktas, Braga and Slovan Bratislava.
Scottish Champions Celtic will play Lazio, Rennes and Cluj - the Romanian club who knocked them out of Champions League qualifying.
Rangers, meanwhile, were placed with Porto, Young Boys and Feyenoord.
When do the games take place?
- Matchday one: 19 September
- Matchday two: 3 October
- Matchday three: 24 October
- Matchday four: 7 November
- Matchday five: 28 November
- Matchday six: 12 December
Latest updates:
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"Very much Europe’s second-tier competition in terms of feeling as much as status, the Europa League is at this point pretty much what you make it, so it is quite the coincidence that the group stage draw conforms to how the British clubs see it.
For Manchester United, it seems an inconvenience, especially after winning it two years ago, and that’s certainly the way to describe a trip to Astana. For Arsenal, it still feels a trophy to be won and a route back into the Champions League for the first time in three seasons, and their group looks like a proper challenge in that regard. For Wolves, it’s a grand adventure, which is again exactly what trips to Braga, Besiktas and Slovan Bratislava represent. There’s a pleasing variety to that, too, going to very different football corners of Europe."
Miguel Delaney is in Monaco, and has some thoughts on today's Europa League draw:
Some good news from Uefa, who have confirmed a cap on away ticket prices in this season's European competitions
Steven Gerrard has reacted to Rangers' Europa League draw:
"It's a fantastic draw for us. There's some really tasty games in there and some nice countries to visit.
"But we're not in that group to make up the numbers. We want to give a good account of ourselves. We want to do our fans proud and surprise a few.
"We know we go in as the underdogs, but we'll give it our best shot and do everything we can to get out of the group.
"On paper it certainly looks difficult. But football doesn't always go to script. Football is there to shock people and that's what we'll try to do."
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