Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United are in Bilbao for tomorrow's Europa League.
A shiny trophy and a place in next season's Champions League are on the line for the two drastically underperforming Premier League heavyweights and we have several reporters on the ground in Spain.
We will be bringing you their thoughts as well of plenty of analysis, quotes, insight, and more ahead of a huge game in the Basque Country.
Essential Europa League final reading:
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Micky van de Ven: The centre-back of the future
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UEFA has been accused of “disproportionately excluding” disabled fans from Wednesday’s Europa League final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
Level Playing Field, a campaigning group for the rights of disabled football fans, has highlighted the number of wheelchair and easy access seating spaces made available at San Mames falls well below UEFA’s own guidelines.
Each club has been given just 26 wheelchair and 15 easy access spaces for the final, when they should have been provided with around double that. Proportionately, each club should have been given 58 wheelchair spaces and 28 easy access seats.
Read more via the link below.
I've just gone through airport security here at Manchester airport. I've got two packs of cards because I want to introduce Laurie Whitwell to a card game known as ‘Tommy Two Hands’.
I'm taking the circuitous route to Bilbao — I'm flying to Paris, then I'm going to Biarritz, and then i'm going to get a coach from there into San Sebastian in Spain. Then from there I will take a train into Bilbao.
So planes, trains and automobiles.
If you want a mildly funny story, when I went through airport security there were two gentlemen there looking giddy and holding a mobile phone. I thought they recognised me from the Talk of the Devils podcast as they asked me to take a picture.
Anyway, he handed his phone to me and spun around and there was Denis Irwin. That's fine, I always want to take a photo with Denis Irwin too.
Take care, up the Reds and glory, glory Man United!
Zirkzee, Yoro, and Dalot's returns are a huge boost to Amorim ahead of Wednesday's final, meaning Matthijs de Ligt is now the only doubt alongside long-term absentee and fellow centre-half Lisandro Martinez.
Zirkzee's return is the biggest surprise.
The 23-year-old's hamstring injury had threatened to rule him out for the rest of the season but he revealed last week — on Alphonso Davies' Twitch stream no less — that a return for the final was ‘difficult, but not impossible’.
Whether he is ready for minutes is a different question, though — one Amorim may be able to answer in his press conference later.
Dalot was hopeful of returning in time from a calf injury when speaking at United's pre-final media day last week, while Yoro's potential availability is a relief after coming off in worrying circumstances in the recent defeat against West Ham United.
They weren't the only new additions at open training — of sorts. Winger Alejandro Garnacho has a new peroxide blonde haircut for the big occasion.
Manchester United have an open training session this morning at their Carrington training ground and our man on the ground Mark Critchley has spotted the return of some familiar faces.
Joshua Zirkzee, Diogo Dalot, and Leny Yoro are all back in training, which will be a boost to Ruben Amorim if they are available tomorrow.
There is no Matthijs de Ligt, though.
We'll bring you full team news from press conferences throughout the day.
On the lookout for some unusual bets to liven up the final?
A 4-3 win for either team, as happened in the Carabao Cup quarter-final in December, is priced at 150/1, while an over-4.5-goals goal-fest is at 180/1, combined with 13-plus corners and nine or more cards.
Looking at aggressive United midfielders Manuel Ugarte and Casemiro, the former is 13/8 to register three-plus fouls and the latter 11/10 to register two-plus, while Alejandro Garnacho to hit 5-plus shots is 11/4.
*All odds courtesy of Betfair
We've reminded you of how Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United made it to this year's Europa League final... but what about the journey for some fans and journalists?
Well, our Spurs writer Jack Pitt-Brooke took the scenic route and boarded the ferry to Bilbao.
Here he is at the start of the journey — let's hope we get a game worthy of spending all day at sea!
As you might be able to tell from the clear skies over Bilbao when Spurs arrived in the Basque Country yesterday, the rain in Spain is largely on the theoretical plane.
Sunny intervals with a gentle breeze is what the meteorologists are telling us is on the cards for the next two days, with only an outside chance of a downpour come game time.
I have woken up nervous.
Deep down, I always knew that Tottenham would lose to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in 2019 and — as we all remember — the negativity set in pretty quickly after that game began in Madrid.
This time? They have a puncher’s chance and I’m not comfortable with that dash of hope.
I’m just not built for finals as a fan. Football Manager has hidden ratings out of 20 for how players deal with Big Occasions. I’d get a 2.
Tottenham’s night at home to Frankfurt started catastrophically, with Hugo Ekitike firing in a fine opener for the visitors, but Pedro Porro’s backheeled goal drew them level before the interval.
Spurs worked feverishly in the second period in search of a winner, but despite creating some fine chances, they could not find another breakthrough.
Advantage Frankfurt, or so it seemed. But in one of Europe’s most intimidating arenas, Spurs delivered the performance of their season.
Frankfurt’s Waldstadion was a seething swirl of noise for but Spurs kept their heads and eked out a 1-0 victory courtesy of Dominic Solanke’s first-half penalty.
Tottenham 1-1 Frankfurt (Porro)
Frankfurt 0-1 Tottenham (Solanke)