Spanish underdogs have belief against Man Utd

GRANADA have gone from the Spanish second tier to a first European quarter-final in just two years, with boss Diego Martinez calling on his players to write another remarkable chapter in their fairytale against Manchester United.

Having hosted semi-professional football as recently as 2010, the Estadio Municipal Nuevo Los Carmenes will welcome the 20-time English champions in the Europa League quarter-final first leg tonight.

Granada have already knocked out Serie A side Napoli and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s former club Molde during their first ever European campaign, which they qualified for by finishing seventh in LaLiga last term.

“We respect every team and we’re not going to find out right now what United is,” he said. “It’s a giant in Europe, it’s an amazing team. But if we are in the quarterfinals and we’re facing them it’s because we’ve done many good things.

“We’re going to play 180 minutes, plus injury-time, and we believe in our possibilities. Last year we were candidates, one, two or three to be back in the second division and we ended up in Europe.

“There’s a sentence in our dressing-room ‘they didn’t know it’s impossible so they did it’ so this is what we try to think of.”

Marcus Rashford is available for United’s clash against Granada.

The 23-year-old limped off in the second half against Brighton on Sunday and trained yesterday, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he is unlikely to be “a 90-minute man” in Spain.

Chelsea players congratulate Ben Chilwell after he made it 2-0.