{"id":1027255,"date":"2022-03-20T01:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/20\/barcelona-face-frankfurt-in-europa-league-quarters\/"},"modified":"2022-03-20T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:47:41","slug":"barcelona-face-frankfurt-in-europa-league-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/20\/barcelona-face-frankfurt-in-europa-league-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona face Frankfurt in Europa League quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/barca-220317-celebrations-g-1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"barca-220317-celebrations-g-1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Barcelona were drawn to play Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarterfinals of this season\u2019s Europa League on Friday, while West Ham United will take on Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in Europe\u2019s second-tier club competition for the first time since 2004 following their exit from the Champions League in the group stage, Barcelona qualified for the quarterfinals by beating Galatasaray of Turkey 2-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Eintracht beat Real Betis in extra time on Thursday to go through and will be at home in the first leg on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham beat record six-time winners Sevilla, hosts of this season\u2019s final, in the last 16 and will be at home to Lyon before going to France for the return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the other ties, Rangers play Portuguese club Braga and RB Leipzig will face Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DRAW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinal 1:<\/strong>\u00a0RB Leipzig vs Atalanta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinal 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Eintracht Frankfurt vs Barcelona<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinal 3:<\/strong>\u00a0West Ham United vs Olympique Lyonnais<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinal 4:<\/strong>\u00a0SC Braga vs Rangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinal 1:<\/strong>\u00a0RB Leipzig\/Atalanta vs SC Braga\/Rangers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinal 2:<\/strong>\u00a0West Ham United\/Olympique Lyonnais vs Eintracht Frankfurt\/Barcelona<\/p>\n<p>* Team drawn first will play the first leg at home.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"q9KAaW1bB3g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adopt French as second language, minister charges Ghanaians \u2013 Adom TV News (18-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9KAaW1bB3g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona were drawn to play Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarterfinals of this season\u2019s Europa League on Friday, while West Ham United will take on Lyon. Appearing in Europe\u2019s second-tier club competition for the first time since 2004 following their exit from the Champions League in the group stage, Barcelona qualified for the quarterfinals by beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[656,5175,1497,6362,674,3401],"class_list":["post-1027255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-europa","tag-face","tag-frankfurt","tag-league","tag-quarters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}