The Spanish international has appeared confident ahead of Athletic Bilbao’s Europa League fixture against the Red Devils and has eulogized http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Llorente-c13671 expressed that he is excited to face one of the top clubs in Europe and stated that he is looking forward to the clash with great anticipation.
Athletic Bilbao are going to visit Old Trafford this coming Thursday in order to play out the first leg of the Europa League’s knock-out phase.
The forward conceded that Manchester United are favourites to emerge victorious from the two legged fixture; however, he was adamant that Bilbao have what it takes to pull an upset against the English giants.
This season has been a bumpy ride for Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson’s side. The current English Premier League champions are embroiled in a thrilling title race against their city rivals, Manchester City.
City are at the top of the Premier League’s standings and are two points clear at the top, hence creating problems for the Red Devils in retaining their English title.
Apart from having a very complicated time in keeping their title ambitions alive, the English side had a disappointing run in Europe this season.
The Red Devils were knocked out of the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, which was a major upset, considering the fact that United were last year’s finalists.
Although they lost the final at Wembley to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604, having qualified for the final thrice in four seasons has surely added to the reputation of the Red Devils as one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
After being eliminated from the Champions League, United now pursue the Europa League title and they are considered among the favourites.
While talking to EP, Llorente was quoted as saying:
"Manchester are obviously the favourites. They always play Champions League and compete with teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid. They are one of the big teams in Europe and we're novices.”
"I expect a very exciting game. We are really looking forward to the game, and will do our utmost to get a good result. We have been doing quite well and might cause an upset."
The highly anticipated fixture between Bilbao and United has attracted attention from fans all over the world as Bilbao might be one of the few teams who can prove to be a big hurdle between United and the Europa League title.
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