UEFA Europa League Final 2021 --------------------------------------- May 26, Gdansk Stadium, Gdansk, Poland Fifth meeting between teams, with each of previous four clashes ending in goalless stalemate Villarreal v English teams Won 5 Drawn 7 Lost 5 Man Utd v Spanish teams Won 16 Drawn 23 Lost 22 Villarreal will qualify for 2021-22 Champions League with victory. Manchester United have already qualified via league performance – their berth given to French Ligue 1 team --------------------------------------- VILLARREAL Coach Unai Emery Club captain Mario Gaspar Europa League record W73 D29 L24 European pedigree European Cup semi-final: 2006 Europa League semi-final 2004, 2011, 2016 Aiming to claim first major European trophy – coach Emery lifted three titles with Sevilla (2014-16) and guided Arsenal to final in 2019, losing to Chelsea --------------------------------------- MAN UTD Coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Club captain Harry Maguire Europa League record W37 D21 L16 European pedigree European Cup winner 1968, 1999, 2008 Europa League winner 2017 Playing in eighth European final, with Liverpool only English team to have reached more (14). Solskjaer looking to win first continental silverware --------------------------------------- ROUTE TO FINAL Round of 32 Europa League group I winners Third in Champions League group H Round of 16 Quarter-final Semi-final Salzburg 2-0 (a), 2-1 (h) Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 (a), 2-0 (h) Din. Zagreb 1-0 (a), 2-1 (h) Arsenal 2-1 (h), 0-0 (a) Sociedad 4-0 (a), 0-0 (h) Milan 1-1 (h), 1-0 (a) Granada 2-0 (a), 2-0 (h) Roma 6-2 (h), 2-3 (a) --------------------------------------- Gerard Moreno: Villarreal star striker has provided six goals and five assists in Europa League this season --------------------------------------- Bruno Fernandes: Scored most goals in all competitions by Premier League midfielder since Frank Lampard in 2010 --------------------------------------- EUROPEAN STATISTICS (14 matches) 27 Goals scored 33 8 Goals against 16 67 Shots on target 76 50 Shots wide 61 6044 Passes completed 6133 66 Corners 63 57% Average possession 52% --------------------------------------- PROBABLE LINE-UPS Referee Clément Turpin FRA Mario Albiol Coquelin Alcacer Pedraza Wan-Bissaka Bailly Van de Beek Fred Parejo Moreno Chukwueze Rashford Fernandes Pogba Cavani Torres Trigueros Lindelof Shaw Rulli De Gea --------------------------------------- Source: UEFA Pictures: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS