{"id":312774,"date":"2017-04-21T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312774"},"modified":"2017-04-21T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:50:28","slug":"europa-league-draw-man-utd-v-celta-vigo-ajax-v-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312774","title":{"rendered":"Europa League draw: Man Utd v Celta Vigo, Ajax v Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Manchester United will face Spanish side Celta Vigo in the semi-finals of the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League side have won the European Cup three times but have never triumphed in the continent&#8217;s secondary club competition.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch side Ajax, winners in 1992, come up against French club Lyon in the other last-four tie.<\/p>\n<p>The first legs will be played on 4 May with the second leg on 11 May, and the final in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 May.<\/p>\n<p>United manager Jose Mourinho won the competition with Porto in 2003 and comes up against La Liga club Celta, who have never won a major European competition.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax, who beat Schalke 4-3 on aggregate to reach the last four, are also experienced European campaigners. They have won the Champions League\/European Cup four times previously and the Europa League\/Uefa Cup once, beating Torino in the 1992 final.<\/p>\n<p>In the Champions League draw, holders Real Madrid play city rivals Atletico Madrid and French side Monaco take on Italian club Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>Zinedine Zidane&#8217;s side could become the first club to retain the trophy in the Champions League era in the final on 3 June in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>The first legs of those ties will be played on 2 and 3 May, with the return legs taking place the following week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer id=\"story-footer\" class=\"story-footer\">\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\">Source: BBC<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United will face Spanish side Celta Vigo in the semi-finals of the Europa League. The Premier League side have won the European Cup three times but have never triumphed in the continent&#8217;s secondary club competition. Dutch side Ajax, winners in 1992, come up against French club Lyon in the other last-four tie. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6407,6408,104],"class_list":["post-312774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-celta-vigo","tag-europa-league-draw","tag-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}