Villarreal vs Man United: Marcus Rashford Reveals Pre-Europa League final Plans

Manchester United forward, Marcus Rashford says he is relaxed ahead of tonight's Europa League final clash versus Villarreal in the Polish seaport of Gdańsk.

“I prepare the same for every game. I’m quite relaxed,” the Englishman told UEFA.com.

“I’ll probably be reading or maybe I’ll watch something.

“Just normal things that you do when you’re at home.

“Because you’re always travelling, you’re not really in your house much, you just find a way to make wherever you go home.

“Once I found out what was right for me in order to be in the right headspace for games, I’ve never changed it.

“I don’t think I’ll change it for the rest of my career.”

Ole Gunnar Solskjær's team competed in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) during the autumn, defeats in their final two Group H fixtures leaving them in third place on nine points behind Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig.

They have subsequently come through four Europa League ties, eliminating two Spanish clubs, Real Sociedad in the round of 32 (4-0 a, 0-0 h) and Granada in the quarter-finals (2-0 a, 2-0 h), as well as two from Italy – AC Milan in the round of 16 (1-1 h, 1-0 a) and Roma in the semi-finals (6-2 h, 2-3 a), the second-leg defeat in Rome ending their unbeaten run in this season's competition.

United have won only 16 of their 61 UEFA matches against Spanish opposition (D23 L22), though they are unbeaten in all four this spring (W3 D1), scoring eight goals and conceding none.

However, their last three European campaigns have all been terminated by Liga opposition – by Sevilla in both the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (0-0 a, 1-2 h) and last season's one-off UEFA Europa League semi-final in Cologne (1-2), and by Barcelona in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League quarter-final (0-1 h, 0-3 a).

United's record in UEFA knockout ties against Spanish clubs is W9 L12.

This includes a record in finals of W1 L3, with defeats in each of the last three – against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League deciders of 2009 and 2011 (1-3 at Wembley) and by Real Madrid in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup (1-2 in Skopje).

Their only victory came in the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup final against Barcelona in Rotterdam (2-1).

Kick-off time for Villarreal versus Manchester United is 8 pm Nigerian time.