Unai emery will sit tomorrow for the second time on the visiting bench of the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán since he left the Sevilla in the summer of 2016 heading to PSG. In total, it will be the ninth time that the Basque coach has appeared in Nervión as a visitor, a stadium in which he lived the best stage of his professional career but in which his balance as a rival is quite low.
And is that Emery has only beaten Sevilla on the road in one of eight previous appearances. It was in the first of them, when as a technician of the Almeria sevillista stormed the fiefdom prevailing with a forceful 1-4. As a technician of the Valencia, between the League and the Copa del Rey, he achieved a draw and five defeats, while last season he also left empty in his debut in the Andalusian capital as coach of the Villarreal.
These data contrast with everything he achieved from the local bench. Three Europa Leagues, one final of the Copa del Rey, a record for league points that was broken last season … Emery made history in Nervión, where he touched heaven as a tenant but where he has lived the closest thing to hell as a foreigner.