What's interesting about the matches of these two teams is that both of them met in the Europa League after failing in the UCL.
The two teams met too soon, one between Barcelona and Manchester United will go home.That definitely reduces the excitement level in the Europa League. In terms of performance, I think the two teams are in different situations in each league
I never see manchester united played in UCL before it was playing in Europa league. I guess that if you are wrong about this as menchester united was not playing in champion league for this season. that's also the problem that was triggering ronaldo to leave from the united.
Barcelona was playing at UCL before but it's not for manchester united. Manchester united has been only qualified to play in the europa league. it's not UCL.
Manchester United are favorites for the Europa League, I never thought it would be. But it is true that Manchester United's performance at the start of the season was erratic and poor. But after changing the coach, their performance has also changed. Now their performance is somewhat stable if not strong enough. Manchester United is not favorite for the Europa League title. I think they will be eliminated from the Europa League with a defeat against Barcelona in the next round.
Talking about the favourite in this competition i have check it and the bookie provide Arsenal as the first favourite with odds @5 and secondly is Barcelona @5.5 and third team is Manchester United which has odds @9 and unfortunately Barcelona and Manchester United have to met early so one of them will be eliminate early and about their chances i think they have equal chances to qualified
But if we see from coach sides i think Manchester United is more good because they have Ten Hag which is more experience on european competitions than Xavi and i know Manchester United has poor records from Barcelona before and this could be good challenge for Ten Hag that can he improved these records or Manchester United still cannot beat Barcelona so very interesting to see the results of this match
Manchester United and Barcelona are two major rivals in the Europe with Barca haven had so much edge on winning against Manchester united of which I have so much doubt if Ten hag can change or make any difference to those previous results, as currently Barcelona under Xavi which you claim Ten hag has more European competition experience than it is his team that's sitting at the top in the laliga table which explains their current level of form. Another thing is that , you fail to understand that Xavi has toured European competitions as a great player and that alone is an experience he can use to add to what ever kind of European experience you're talking of at the coaching level.
The match between these two teams might not be an easy match but amongst the two Barcelona is the most favourite to winning the game, except for some surprises that comes with football.