End in the kingdom of ice

Win in Salzburg and go to the eighth of the Champions League, perhaps as the first, or that Wolfsburg does not defeat Lille to retain at least third place and thus obtain the lowest prize of the sixteenth in the Europa League. Sevilla’s accounts are very clear. The panorama, not so much. Those of Lopetegui arrived in Austria yesterday with another important loss, that of the Argentine Acuña, who joins the Navas, En-Nesyri, Lamela and Suso. And the Gipuzkoan coach You can barely rotate over the ones who already beat themselves up on Saturday to beat Villarreal, a duel in which many leading footballers showed obvious fatigue (follow today’s game live on As.com).

Will play under the snow that has fallen and is also expected today on an icy Red Bull Arena on the grass and, this helps Sevilla more, also in the stands. Central Europe is dotted with worrying numbers, similar to those at the beginning of the pandemic, and that causes the game to be played behind closed doors. The circumstance, less environmental pressure, must play in favor of the visitor, who is sure It evokes the express final phase to lift the Sixth Europa League not too many kilometers away, in Germany. Just a year and a half ago and the happy echoes of those empty stadiums still palpitate in the hearts of Sevilla fans.

In the energy drink team there are also absences, although only that of the former Sevilla central defender Wöber can be considered crucial. Jaissle will not have relevant secondary players like Junuzovic, Vallici, Bernardo and Okoh either.. Yes, Adeyemi plays, that dazzling striker for whom several great Europeans fight, including Barça. Nothing less than The young man (19 years old) adds 15 goals this season between Bundesliga and Champions German international, though the accolades seem to have sat him so-so. He has not scored in three league games and two in the Champions League.

With the arrow up, Sevilla has Lucas Ocampos, who has returned to the level of his first season in Nervión and accumulates 5 goals in his last 7 appearances. Sweetly follow the security axis (Fernando-Koundé-Diego Carlos) and Jordan and Rakitic have raised their level. Julen is entrusted to that spine and what Rafa Mir hunts above in another of those decisive matches, so many on the Continent for Sevilla in the last three decades.