The Royal Society will announce this next Monday the new venue where you will have to play the game first leg of the UEFA Europa League round of 32 against Manchester United, as the Diario AS has learned. The San Sebastian club has been working on this issue for days, studying the alternatives it has to be able to take the European game outside our country. The problem is that by the restrictions of the Government of Spain, in the same vein as other European countries, No flights or ships from the UK are allowed in over the risk of spreading the British strain of the coronavirus.
Is about a ban that ends on February 16, two days before the European match, but UEFA has a deadline to make a decision on the venue, which in this case, It ends this Monday, February 8. So the Royal Society must provide a solution before that date, moving the headquarters of the match against Manchester United to a country where flights from the United Kingdom are allowed. UEFA holds meetings to find different scenarios, and it could even be the case that the Executive lifts the restriction on February 16, but the scene of the match has already been modified. Because what the Royal Society cannot is to wait until that date to find out whether or not the Government extends the current regulations.
Monday next week there will be headquarters for the match against Manchester, and everything indicates that there will be a new scenario. One of the countries that can allow the 'Red Devils' to enter is one that is right next door, France; so it would not be ruled out that there was the new field for the European clash, con two cities like First class fields, like Bordeaux or Toulouse, very close to Donostia. Anyway, we will have to wait until Monday to see what the Real announces. Although if in the end the first leg You cannot play at Anoeta, the logical thing is that the return match cannot be played at Old Trafford either, because among other things, the Real cannot enter the United Kingdom either. So Manchester United will also have to provide solutions to UEFA for the new headquarters in that second match of the tie to be played on February 25.