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Getafe and Espanyol will measure, respectively, the Ajax and the English Wolves of the Mexican Raúl Jiménez, two of the bones of the round of 16 of the Europa League that could correspond to them, while Sevilla had more fortune to have to be measured with a less flattered Romanian Cluj , in some crosses where duels like Bayer Leverkusen-Porto and Olympiacos-Arsenal also stand out.

Getafe-Ajax, Wolves-RCD Espanyol and Cluj-Sevilla are also new in a European tie. Now they will live on the 20th (round) and on February 27th (round) of 2020, dates of the round of 16.

Undoubtedly, the team of José Bordalás corresponds to the 'fat man' of the draw: an Ajax that arrives from the Champions League, where he fell in the last home game against Valencia, and who was semifinalist of the last edition of the maximum competition continental. Two styles, in addition, contraposed: more buttoned and waiting for the getafense, much more cheerful and colorful the Dutch. Their soccer schools are in the antipodes of that of the rival.

Ajax is true that it lost its bellows this summer with the millionaire marches of Frenkie de Jong (Barcelona) and Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus Turin), but it still has the base of the team that marveled at the 2018-19 Champions, including the desired one Donny van de Beek, who lately has been given in Madrid's sights. Of course, Ajax does not go through a good time, because this Sunday he added his third consecutive defeat (two in the national league, one in the Champions League), being matched in the lead by AZ Alkmaar. But until February, when the sixteenths are played, much remains.

The Wolves of Vallejo, Traoré and Raúl Jiménez

Wolverhampton Wanderers, rival of Espanyol and eighth in the current Premier, is a solid block, well armed and with the Mexican Raúl Jiménez as his great star on the pitch. It is a team well built by the Portuguese coach Nuno Espirito Santo . The club reached its highest European level in the 1971-72 campaign, where it was runner-up of the then called UEFA Cup.

In the English box there are three Spanish players: the exmadridista Jesús Vallejo , the former player Jonny Castro and the ex-Barcelona player Adama Traoré . The first, many years captain of the sub'21; the last summoned for the last two games of the absolute, where he could not go due to injury.

The Seville of Julen Lopetegui, the 'king of the competition' with his five UEFA Cup / Europa League titles, was hit by a rival of those considered 'covered': the Cluj is apparently affordable, but it has 'surprise', it is a fight, With the Spanish goal Jesús Fernández and the Portuguese coach Toni Conceicao , he has five Romanian leagues under his belt and habitual in the last editions of the Champions League, where he fell in the group stage.

The draw also doubles 'Champions' duels, such as Bayer Leverkusen-Porto, Olympiacos-Arsenal or Club Brujas-Manchester United . All teams that the logical thing is to see them, at least, in the group stage of the Champions League, but now some of them go through being in the favorite group to win the Europa League. Other interesting duels are Roma-Gent, Ludogorts-Inter Milan , with net Italian favoritism in both cases.

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