Almost on the meridian of Greenwich, and a few kilometers from the observatory where a century and a half ago all the world’s schedules were officially specified, the London stadium is erected. There, in a version of the venue where the 2012 Olympics were held, This Sevilla wants to stop time to try to take a step that until now has always become definitive. The six times they went to the quarterfinals, the Nervión team ended up lifting the Europa League (Follow today’s game live on As.com).
Some 60,000 West Ham fans will press to turn around the meager 1-0 first leg. The English team still does not have the electric Bowen, its most unbalanced footballer, and yesterday morning it was still The left-back Cresswell and the irrepressible striker Michael Antonio partially trained separately, injured on Sunday against Aston Villa. A duel that ended marked by the tears of Andriy Yarmolenko, the Ukrainian who sweetened his suffering from the war with one of the hammers’ winning goals. There are ballots that, given the casualties in attack, David Moyes resorts today from the beginning to the extreme veteran, which would also mean leaning on his emotional factor.
Sevilla will need a much less timid version at home, they have not won away since the beginning of the year. Lopetegui traveled without Ocampos, sanctioned, and saw how Marcos Acuña also entered a populated and luxurious infirmary (Diego Carlos, Papu Gómez, Suso, Lamela, Rekik…) from which Montiel and Fernando have managed to get out. It is possible that the versatile Argentine defender play this time on the left after the Swedish Augustinsson confirmed in Vallecas the doubts raised. Another Nordic, the Danish Delaney, did not play in the first leg due to suspension, but against Rayo he earned the right to form again from the beginning. It will also start except surprise Anthony Martial, happy under the sun in Seville and back in England, to a stadium where he was also very happy: he scored 8 goals against West Ham, his favorite victim. In the place where time divides: it’s time, Seville.