Europa League: After goals from Di María and Dybala, the draw for the round of 16 leaves a cross between Argentines and big games

He Betis will have to play the pass for the quarter-finals of the Europa League against Manchester Utdthe least desired rival who excluded Barcelona from the competition this Thursday, according to the round of 16 draw, which equaled the Royal society with the Rometo the Seville with the fenerbahçe Already Turkish Juventus with the Freiburg from Germany.

Classed as the top seed, after finishing first in the group stage, the team where the world champion plays Guido Rodríguez, directed by the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini will meet the “cuckoo” of the teams that had to pass the previous qualifying round. He did it with a comeback against Barça at Old Trafford (2-1), with De Gea, Varane and Casemiro in the starting eleven.

Third in the Premier League, now 5 points behind leaders Arsenal, are Erik Ten Hag’s men, with Lisandro Martínez AND Alexander Garnachothey puffed out their chests after defeating La Liga leaders Barcelona, ​​who, as their coach recalled, lead Real Madrid by 8 points, “in a magnificent night”.

Betis will have the home return in their favor, the same as Real Sociedad, who will visit José Mourinho’s Roma in the first leg and Paul Dybalaclassified in the round of 16 after defeating Salzburg at the Olimpico yesterday evening, with a brace from the Argentine champion.

Mourinho’s men are also third in Italy, 18 points behind Napoli, and are chasing a new European title this season after lifting the Conference League by beating Feyenoord in the competition’s first-ever final last year.

The third Spanish team present at today’s draw in Nyon (Switzerland), the Seville of Papu Gómez, Gonzalo Montiel, Marcos Acuña and Lucas Ocampos, among other Argentines, their future in Europe will be played against fenerbahçe Turkish in a competition that reigns with six titles, against the three won by Liverpool, Juventus, Inter Milan and Atlético Madrid.

Despite their 2-0 defeat at PSV, Jorge Sampaoli’s men continue to lead thanks to a 3-0 first-leg lead and will now meet an opponent who has already left them out of Europe on one occasion and who progress to the round of 16 as leaders and as runners-up in the Turkish league.

The draw, in which former Hungarian player Zoltán Gera collaborated, given that the final will be played on May 31 at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, also equaled the Juventus From little angel of mary AND Leandro Paredes with the Freiburg German, who reaches this stage of the competition for the first time, just like the trade union berlin and the Saint Gilloise Union Belgian, who will face each other.

He Bayer Leverkusen by Xabi Alonso, who left out on penalties Monkwas paired with the Ferencvaros Hungarian; He Arsenal by Mikel Arteta, two-time finalist, with the Sporty Lisbon and will break the tie in his court, and the Shakhtar Donetsk Ukrainian, with the feyenoord Dutch.

Shakhtar, who “represent much more than a club”, according to the assistant general secretary and sporting director of the UefaGiorgio Marchetti, in the draw beat the French Rennes on penalties (3-3/4-5) to enter today’s draw, when we celebrate the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The first legs are scheduled for 9 March and the return matches a week later, on 16 March.