Paul Scholes has mixed feelings on whether he wants Manchester United to face Barcelona in their Europa League play-off next February.
The Old Trafford legend initially salivated at the prospect of watching his beloved Red Devils clash with the La Liga giants, only to go back on his word and claim that Erik ten Hag's side should hope to avoid them. As United failed to top their Europa League group on Thursday by only beating Real Sociedad by one goal rather than two, Ten Hag and Co. will be forced to play a two-legged tie in four months' time to decide whether they'll make it through to the last 16.
Those matches will be against a team demoted from the Champions League, such as Barcelona, who slumped to a third-place finish at the group stage and subsequently dropped down to Europe's second-rate competition.
