• Direct This was Sevilla-Juventus

Football has no explanation. It's irrational. What Sevilla has with the Europa League is an example of a connection that does not understand reasons. Dead for many months in the League and buried at Old Trafford, they resurrected shaking United and rising from all the blows that Juventus gave them. That team that wandered in March by the League opened last night the doors of the sky of Budapest where it will fight against Mourinho's Roma for its seventh Europa League. He left out the Vecchia Signora in extra time, with a header from Lamela for the history of Nervión. [Narration and statistics]

The boiler of the Sánchez Pizjuán was lit to help Sevilla lock up Juventus as a first gesture that they were going to suffer. Mendilibar did not want the party to go crazy, but neither did he bet on preserving the excess. With sanity, his team was growing against the Italian, who seemed to crouch as a survival tactic and trust his luck to efficiency. It was like this, with a corner kick, as he forced Bono to make the first great stop of the night saving a perfect header from Gatti who had imagined himself hero of the tie.

In the first half, that role was played by the goalkeepers in a give-and-take of saves that kept the tie. Czczesny responded to the Moroccan saving on the very goal line a header at point-blank range from Ocampos to the center of Navas. Bono went one-on-one with Di Maria, whom he had found between the lines Rabiot, forcing the Argentine, with the right, to mess with Vaseline. The answer in the other area was a hand from the Polish goalkeeper to save a great far shot from Acuña.

Within half an hour, the goalkeepers had prevented anyone from setting foot in Budapest. Kean ran away and scared again with a cross shot that, again Bono, grazed to send to the post. Sevilla, far from wrinkling, began to find more Rakitic and a committed Oliver multiplied in the core. Now hindering Juve's attempts to run, their best weapon, now leaking passes that Ocampos tried to take advantage of. The Sevillistas were greasing, putting more and more faith in their attacks, when Fagioli's injury caused a stoppage that numbed them.

Allegri was not bad for that plan, which he had already made clear with the substitution of Alex Sandro, who suffered in the idea, Miretti or the surprising Vlahovic. The Juventine coach was not in a hurry. He even saw how they were not hands a control with the two of Fagioli in the area and Locatelli mark in offside before the break, which ended up being delayed by the review of a possible penalty from Cuadrado to Oliver on the line of the area that the VAR did not see either.

It was immediately noticeable why when he returned from the locker room. Acuña tried first with a far shot nothing harmful and a double tame shot at the exit of a corner of Badé and En-Nesyri. Sevilla too tender to hurt an opponent that Rabiot, in a quick transition, could put in advantage with a whiplash that grazed Bono's post. Allegri looked at the clock. At the end the gunnery had to be taken out. A minute after stepping on the pitch, a mistake by Badé gave Vlahovic the goal.

Far from being knocked out, Sevilla continued to believe and Suso was the prophet who led them to the tie with a shot from the front that he placed for the squad. It was up to Juve to twist again to withstand the siege of Sevilla, which was close to the second in another direct foul by Suso and a header from En-Nesyri that saved Czczesny.


In the extension there was no help possible. In the middle of the zafarrancho, Juve found that Cuadrado escaped Bryan Gil who served the second goal to Lamela. With the loot in his pocket, it didn't hurt to expel Acuña at that time. That header guarantees Sevilla to be able to write another page of their magical idyll.

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