He Seville He presented in Germany his championship works by getting into the Europa League quarterfinals in this express format of the final phase devised by UEFA. Absolute dominator of this competition, with five titles in a decade (from 2006 to 2016), the Andalusian team passed over Rome, the fittest team in the Italian league, and presented with solid credentials that they are ready to enter the Cologne final on the 21st.
Neither the coronavirus that sneaked into his locker room but could not stop the illusion of his players, nor be two weeks without competing, nor miss some training sessions because of the positive of Gudelj … it seems that they can stop the team of Julen Lopetegui, who exhibited over the grass of the MSV Arena Duisburg an overwhelming superiority over his rival, who was tactically and physically eaten in the first half in which he already made things very clear to his enemy: 2-0 at half-time.
He warned after six minutes with a shoe from Ocampos that Pau López repelled, he made more fear with a header from Koundé to the crossbar and dealt the first stab with an internship of a Reguilon on motorcycle against Bruno Peres. Sevilla found the holes easily with long balls from one side to the other and Banega found the player from Madrid so that the demarcation of the lateral player yielded by Real Madrid became 1-0 after beating Pau Lopez on his way out with the ball under the body.
From Rome there was no news. The work in defense of Koundé and Diego Carlos before the battle of Dzeko was impeccable and the first half hour was a monologue by those of Lopetegui, who before the break struck another ax in a gallop of Ocampos who put a golden ball to En-Nesyri, who pushed the ball almost with pleasure and with Pau López beaten.
All the work was almost done, so the second part was more about seeing them coming from the Andalusians. Roma was trying, but Sevilla's defensive system is a rock, that's why it has had 18 official games without losing, since February 9. And upstairs, he would still have time to show his teeth even more. Koundé would make the third, but was canceled for offside. And Banega, who is rushing his last games as a sevillista before embarking on an adventure in Saudi Arabia, crashed a foul in the wood wanting to round off the triumphant entry of the Nioneers in the quarterfinals and Koundé, who resisted leaving without scoring, finished off point-blank against Pau López about to score the third again.
Sevilla has arrived and has said here I am. Champion makes and has cast. Those of Lopetegui will face the winner of Olympiacos-Wolverhampton on Tuesday.
2 – Seville: Bono; Jesús Navas, Koundé, Diego Carlos, Reguilón; Fernando, Joan Jordán; Ocampos (Franco Vázquez, m.96), Éver Banega, Suso (Munir, m.67); and En-Nesyri (De Jong, m.93).
0 – Rome: Pau López; Mancini, Ibáñez, Kolarov (Gonzalo Villar, m.78); Bruno Peres, Cristante, Diawara (Carles Pérez, m.57), Spinazzola; Mhkitaryan, Zaniolo (Pellegrini, m.57) and Dzeko.
Goals: 1-0, M.22: Reguilón. 2-0, M.44: En-Nesyri.
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands). He sent a red card in the 97th minute to the Roma Mancini player (m.97), for elbowing an opponent. In addition, he admonished the Romanists Kolanov (m.48 +) and Pellegrini (m.86) and the sevillistas Diego Carlos (m.61) and Joan Jordán (m.92).
Incidents: Round of 16 knockout round of the Europa League played in a single game and behind closed doors at the MSV Arena in Duisburg (Germany). Before the meeting, a minute of silence was observed for the victims of the covid-19 pandemic.