When Tottenham are flying out to Bilbao for Europa League final vs Manchester United

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The Europa League final is almost upon us. Tottenham Hotspur are taking on Manchester United in the final of Europe's second tier competition in Bilbao on Wednesday night.

Six years on from their appearance in the Champions League final, Spurs are once again in the final of a European competition, hoping to go one better than they did on that fateful night in Madrid.

Once again they are in Spain and they will want to banish those memories of a 2-0 defeat in what was another all-English final against Liverpool.

As well as securing their first piece of silverware for 17 years and their first European title in 41 years, there is the carrot of Champions League football next season available to Spurs.

Spurs can now focus completely on the Europa League final having played their penultimate Premier League match of the campaign on Friday night against Aston Villa.

That match was originally scheduled for Sunday, but the Premier League agreed to reschedule to give Spurs the same amount of preparation time as Manchester United, whose game with Chelsea in the Premier League was scheduled for and took place on Friday night too.

Ange Postecoglou admitted after the semi-final with Bodo/Glimt that everything Spurs did between then and now was for the final, with the Premier League matches in between being used as aids to the final preparation.

So when are Spurs heading out to Bilbao?

There will be media duties on Tuesday, the day before the final, with a press conference and open training. The Tottenham squad will be heading out to Bilbao on Monday afternoon, having completed a day's training in London on Sunday.

Postecoglou explained: "Our programme at the moment, all things being equal, we do the Villa game, won't get back until late, Saturday will be a sort of rest day for the players, we'll train Sunday, a good session for us and then train here Monday morning and fly to Bilbao on Monday afternoon. Have a run on the pitch the night before and game Wednesday."