You cannot be counting Barcelona as favourites to win the Europa League when they have not overcome Manchester United that is a big challenge for them. If you want to count favourites, it will.be fine you mention both of them because anyone that won between Manchester United and Barcelona may likely get to the finals of the Europa League for this season. It is unfortunate that the two big teams met early
I have the same thought. Barcelona is indeed a big team that they are currently in first place in La Liga, but their performance in the European arena was not that great. We all know that they were knocked out of the Champions League, and it is not certain that they will also be able to qualify for the round of 16 in the European league. I think Man United also has the same big chance to qualify for the next round because they have the capability to beat Barcelona.
So far this is first meet from both of teams after changed coaches so there is no recent statistics as reference to predict who is the winner of this match but Manchester United in the last two season had good records while against Spanish teams that they only lose once from 4 matches so maybe this indicated Manchester United know how to beat Spanish teams including Barcelona but these records is not guaranteed will makes Manchester United will overcomes Barcelona because it depend on their situations when they playing and because playoff matches hasn't begin yet so i will assume Barcelona and Manchester United had equal chances to qualified to the next round