The world champions Ángel Di María and Leandro Paredes (Juventus), Lisandro Martínez (Manchester United), Germán Pezzella and Guido Rodríguez (Betis), Gonzalo Montiel and Marcos Acuña (Sevilla), Paulo Dybala (Roma) and Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen ) will star today in the first legs of the round of 16 of the Europe League.
The day of the second most important competition in Europe will be divided into two shifts: at 2:45 p.m. Bayer Leverkusen (Palacios) will play once morest Ferencvaros, from Hungary; Roma (Dybala) once morest Real Sociedad; Sporting de Portugal-Arsenal; and Union Berlin-Union Saint-Gilloise.
From 5:00 p.m. the most attractive matches will be played since Manchester United, with “Licha” Martínez and Alejandro Garnacho, will receive Betis, from Pezzella and Guido Rodríguez, at Old Trafford, with the intention of leaving behind the 0-7 once morest Liverpool of the past Sunday.
In turn, Juventus, with Di María and Paredes plus the Argentine youth Matías Soulé and Enzo Barrenechea, will face Freiburg, from Germany.
Sevilla, led by Jorge Sampaoli and made up of Montiel, Acuña, Erik Lamela and Lucas Ocampos (Alejandro “Papu” Gómez is still recovering from an ankle injury) will open the series at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium once morest Fenerbahce, from Turkey.
Lastly, Feyenoord from the Netherlands, with Ezequiel Bullaude from Mendoza, will visit Shakhtar Donetsk, from Ukraine, who plays at home in Warsaw, Poland.
All the return matches will be played next Thursday with the locations reversed.
