Sevilla enters their comfort zone

There are few idylls as intense in the world of football as that of Sevilla with the Europa League. The love story between the club in the Sevillian neighborhood of Nervión and the second European competition began with that 2006 title in Eindhoven and now, 14 years later, the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán showcases, which now have five trophies, are looking forward to the arrival of the sixth. Lopetegui’s Sevilla have been planted in the quarterfinals of the competition and that are big words, because whenever they did, they ended up being the champion. Way of a sixth wound To add to his legend, the next obstacle is the Portuguese Nuno’s Wolverhampton, one of the sensations of the year in England that, yes, seems to have gone from more to less this season.

Back in Duisburg, the five-time champion is measured at ‘Wolves’, a team with Portuguese know-how that has returned the club to the privileged rounds of the Europa League almost half a century after that UEFA final in 1972 against Tottenham. The Andalusian team does it full of morale, after completing an almost perfect match against Roma in the second round and with all staff available from Lopetegui except for Gudelj, who did not travel to German lands due to his positive for Covid-19. In the absence of checking if the Basque coach opts again for Bono in goal or on the contrary decides to recover Tomas Vaclik as a starter after his injury, it is foreseeable that he will bet on continuity after the exhibition in the 2-0 at Roma of Fonseca.

For its part, Wolverhampton, which was Espanyol’s executioner in the sixteenth, before the stoppage due to the coronavirus, arrives after overcoming Olympiacos with difficulties and presents former Atlético Raúl Jiménez as a great threat. The Mexican scored the decisive goal against the Greeks and is walking steadily towards thirty goals this season, in which he has pulverized all the records of his career. It remains to be seen whether he will accompany him in the English attack. Adama traore, gray in the final stretch of the campaign, or the Portuguese Diogo Jota, but who surely will not be able to play is another Spaniard, Jony Otto, seriously injured in the ligaments of his right knee.