Europa League final with Seville to face Benfica in Turin.
Sevilla is coming to 3 on the Europa League final. The two previous was 2004 where he then won the Middlesbrough with 4-0 and 2005-2006 won Eindhoven in the penalty shootout and won the Cup. today wants to take it for 3 once and to tie Inter, Juventus and Liverpool to the conquests.
She arrived here as she initially through her championship where Malaga was punished for the finances and Vallecano did not get her leave so she entered the European Cups. He started in July from the qualifiers leaving Mladost Podgorica (Montenegro), Slask Wroclaw (Polonia) and went through the groups having for their opponents Freiburg (Germany), Estoril (Portugal), Slovan Liberec (Czech republic), Maribor (Slovenia).
In 16 he met Betis where he lost in with 2-0 but in the repeat in Betis after equalizing the score of the first fight he won in the penalty shootout.
Porto was expecting 8 where she could be defeated in 1-0 in Portugal, but she literally broke it in Spain with 4-1
Valencia was expecting the semifinals, which in the quarter-final made the overturning of the Basle. Sevilla has won with 2-0, but 3-0 lost 92-3 to 1 after running sideways and a head in the field made XNUMX-XNUMX and so he threw in the final.
In the championship, it has dropped gears for the final and in its last race lost to Getafe with 1-0 making too many changes.
Outside midfielder Jairo Samperio (35 games / 6 goals) is penalized while injured are midfielder Sebastian Cristoforo (21 games) and striker Denis Cheryshev (5 games). Doubtful are Vitolo Machin (44 games / 7 goals) and the important striker Kevin Gameiro'nun (47 games / 21 goals). The first will probably fight for the second I do not know
Possible Composition
Beto, Coke, Fazio, Pareja, Navarro, Mbia, Carrico, Reyes, Rakitic, Vitolo, Bacca.
Benfica that he lost last year took it back this year. Championship while he is close to picking up the League Cup after winning the first race with 2-0 and the repetitive is in 4 days. It seems that Eusebius is pushing her up and now he has reached another final as last year. Last year he had lost to Chelsea in the final with 3 minutes before the end.
Benfica came from the Champions League, where he had Olympiacos, Anderlecht, Paris Saint-Germain. He came third from the group and initially walked relatively easily to Pawk with 1-0 in Tumba and 3-0 in Portugal.
He then won Tottenham outside with 3-1 and 2-2 in Portugal
In the quarter-finals he passed Alkmaar and 1-0 in the Netherlands and 2-0 in Portugal
Finally in the semi-final he passed Juventus winning in Portugal with 2-1 and 0-0 in Italy.
In Portugal, 3 weeks ago are a champion and did not have any racing stress, and in winning the League Cup he won Rio Ave with 2-0 in the first fight while playing 4.
Looking at the statistics for the two teams now Sevilla in Europa has not lost 8 from 9 fights while Benfica has not defeated 8 matches in Europa.
In the races now for Benfica the Enzo Perez (45 races / 5 goals) Eduardo Salvio (21 games / 2 goals) and striker Lazar Markovic (46 games / 7 goals) are penalized while defender Silvio Pereira (18 games) and midfielder Ljubomir Fejsa'nın (27 games) are questionable. But Pereira will probably fight.
Possible Composition
Moraes, Pereira, Garay, Luisao, Siqueira, Djuricic, Amorim, Gomes, Gaitan, Rodrigo, Lima.
Inside all of this there is also the curse of Bella Gutman. You will tell me "Well, I believe in curses, what are they?" but history shows it. The story is taken from counter.gr as they wrote it
After last year's failure, the "eagles" now count seven consecutive failed attempts at a final European event, with its latest European cup dating back to 52 years (1962).
The then Benfica team, having its leader Eusebius, managed to overcome Real Stephano's Real and become the European champion for two consecutive years (1961 and 1962). The team's bench was seated by the singular Hungarian coach, Bela Gutman, who even set up the 4-2-4 system in the Portuguese team. However, after these successes, the streets of Gutman and Benfica broke in an awkward way.
The truth is that many claim that behind the ongoing European failures of Benfica from 1962 and then hiding Bella Gutman. But what do we mean by that? The story says that shortly after Benfica was crowned as the best team in Europe for the second consecutive time 1962 (defeated in the Real Madrid final with 5-3!), Gutman requested an increase in his salary from the club.
However, the Benfica leaders refused, with the coach resigning. However, the Hungarian did not let this club's refusal to pass a new contract and unleashed the following curse: "Do not get a European title and not win another Portuguese team of two consecutive cups of Europe in the next 100 years!".
So far, what is known as the "Curse of Bella Gutman" has not been broken. The Portuguese have managed to find seven more times at the European Final (Champions Cup and Cup Winners Cup) and all of them were defeated (1963 AC Milan 2-1, 1965 Inter 1-0, 1968 Man United 4-1 extension, 1983 Anderlecht 2-1, 1988 Eindhoven 6-5 Penalty, 1990 Milan 1-0, 2013 Chelsea 2-1).
Indeed, before the final of the 1990 Champions League in Vienna against AC Milan, Eusebio along with other Portuguese club leaders visited Gumman's tomb and begged to ... break this curse. Whatever they were asking, however, the curse did not break and Benfica was defeated by 1-0 from AC Milan, thanks to Frank Ricard's goal.
Benfica will be in 8's European final after Gumman's famous words and remains to see if he eventually succeeds in breaking up this mischief or giving Seville a chance to celebrate the third Europa League (the oldest UEFA Cup) in its history.
Two teams who do not put it down easily especially the Spaniards who also in 93 when he passed Valencia but also Betis who passed it into the penalty shootout. On the other hand, Benfica after the lost final last year wants to excite the "curse" this year, but to get the Cup that lost last year and fill in the frame. I expect to have a balanced final with the two teams doing identification moves and for that reason I will go with the draw in the first half and in the end let them do what they want. X in the first half so