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Seville, Sep 25 (EFE) .- Sevilla, after losing the European Super Cup to Bayern Munich (2-1), has garnered praise for the claw and pride displayed in Budapest, for their resilience and fighting spirit to overcoming difficult moments, in this case without a successful ending by maintaining his 'curse' every time he has reached extra time in this tournament.
The team coached by Julen Lopetegui, after winning its sixth Europa League against Inter Milan (3-2) in August, another colossus, fell this Thursday at the Puskas Arena against a footballing behemoth like Bayern, but their courage, struggles and Bravery, his character to never give up, have aroused admiration in different areas of football.
“Honor to the rival. Honor to Sevilla FC. He has been a tough opponent! Good luck in the future!”, The Bavarian club, champion of this Super Cup, wrote on his Twitter account with a goal in extra time (minute 104) of the Spanish Javi Martínez, and a month before a Champions League in which, in the quarterfinals, he made an 8-2 to an entire Barcelona.
The Royal Spanish Football Federation also congratulated the Sevilla team, despite their defeat: “Spanish football is proud of your work and sacrifice, Sevilla FC. Thank you for the dedication and passion with which you play each ball! You have many historic nights to live! “, He said on his Twitter account.
Similar praise was given to him by ex-Sevilla fans such as former Franco-Albanian forward Frederic Kanouté, Andrés Palop, the Argentine Nico Pareja, Vicente Iborra or Sergio Reguilón, although in the end the men of Lopetegui, despite falling with pride and honor, were deprived, for the fifth consecutive time, of the title of the European Super Cup.
In Budapest, despite the good image given by the Nervión neighborhood as a whole, it was confirmed that this competition is not doing very well, unlike its fetish tournament, the Europa League, since Sevilla has played six finals of the Super Cup since 2006 and has only won one, precisely the first fourteen years ago against Barcelona in Monaco (0-3).
In addition, the sevillistas saw how the kind of 'curse' that seems to haunt them in overtime in the tournament that faces the champions of the 'Champions' and the 'Europa League' was expanded, since in their previous two finals they also fell in overtime.
In the first, against Barcelona (5-4) in 2015 in Tbilisi, the defeat came after a crazy match in which the Argentine Éver Banega advanced his team and then a double by Messi and two goals from Rafinha and Luis Suárez seemed give him the triumph culés.
However, the Andalusians, faithful to their motto of 'They say that they never give up', tied at four through the late José Antonio Reyes, the French Kevin Gameiro and the Ukrainian Yevhen Konoplyanka, until Pedro Rodríguez spoiled the party with him 5-4 in extra time.
Something similar happened to him a year later, in the 2016 European Super Cup in Trondheim (Norway), where, after overcoming Marco Asensio's 1-0, with goals from Argentine Mudo Vázquez and Konoplyanka, Real Madrid player Sergio Ramos forced the discount an extension later decided by Dani Carvajal (3-2).
Sevilla, winner of ten titles in the last 14 years (6 UEFA / Europa League Cups, one European Super Cup, one for Spain and two King's Cups), experienced another disappointment after reaching extra time in a final in the cup tournament in 2016, when they fell with two goals in overtime against Barça (2-0) at the Calderón.
Even so, and after having lost five of the twenty finals played so far this century in overtime, the Andalusian team also succeeded in two of them after reaching extra time, both in the UEFA / Europa League: in 2007 against Espanyol (2-2, 3-1 on penalties) in Glasgow and in 2014 against Benfica (0-0, 4-2 on penalties) in Turin. EFE