Barcelona and Juventus are two of Manchester United's eight potential opponents for their Europa League play-off next year.
Despite recording a 1-0 win away to Real Sociedad on Thursday - and as consequently failing to win their group - the Red Devils will now be forced play two extra fixtures in February, with a place in the last 16 of the Europa League up for grabs. But rather than face another side who also finished second at the group stage, the eight teams who were demoted from the Champions League will enter the competition and scrap it out against them.
Among those are Spanish heavyweights Barcelona and Italian giants Juventus, who each slumped to a third-place finish in Europe's elite competition. United can not only be drawn against the pair of European behemoths, though, as Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Red Bull Salzburg, Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk and Sporting Lisbon also make their way down from the Champions League.
