Now it's about the final! This Sunday, Man United and Sevilla FC will determine the first finalist at the Europa League tournament in North Rhine-Westphalia. The United coach took visual lessons in matters of international football spectacle on television on Friday.
Cologne (dpa) - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer does not want to complain about an excessive load on his players, even after the unusually long season due to the corona virus.
"We had a couple of good days to train and to regenerate," said the Manchester United coach before the semi-finals in the Europa League this Sunday against Sevilla FC in Cologne, adding to the schedule, which is also tight in normal times the English football clubs and to the 1-0 in the quarter-finals against FC Copenhagen last Monday: "We don't often have six days between two games. We're ready."
Solskjaer and his team are happy about "what we have achieved so far, but we are not yet satisfied," said the Norwegian coach. "We want to take the next step." You have to be "clever and creative" against Seville, which has already won the Europa League three times and the previous UEFA Cup competition twice.
Solskjaer saw on TV on Friday evening how this could look almost perfect. The 8-2 gala between FC Bayern and FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Champions League made a big impression on the 47-year-old. "I have to say that Bayern Munich are currently setting the standard," he said on Saturday at the press conference before the Sevilla game. "You were absolutely brilliant."
Sevilla described Solskjaer as "a very well organized team with an aggressive style of play". For his part, Spaniard coach Julen Lopetegui spoke of the best "Manchester United in recent years". The Basque said before the game at 9pm (DAZN and Nitro): "They will force us to play a big game in order to keep up. We have to play our best game as a collective."
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