Sevilla, with pride and pedigree, meets with the Europa League in its seventh final

football has no explanation. it's irrational. What Sevilla has with the Europa League is an example of a connection that does not understand the reasons. Dead for many months in the League and buried at Old Trafford, they were resurrected by shaking off United and rising from all the blows Juventus dealt them.. The gates of heaven in Budapest were opened last night to that team that wandered through the League in March, where they will fight against Mourinho's Roma for their seventh Europa League. He left La Vecchia Signora out in extra time, with a header from Lamela for the story of Nervión. [Narration and statistics]

The Sánchez Pizjuán boiler was turned on to help Sevilla lock up Juventus as the first gesture that they were going to suffer. Mendilibar did not want the game to go crazy, but neither did he opt to keep the excess. With sanity, his team grew against the Italian, who seemed to crouch as a survival tactic and trust his luck to efficiency. It was thus, with a corner kick, that he forced Bono to make the first great save of the night, saving a perfect header from Gatti who had imagined himself the hero of the tie.

In the first part, that role was played by the goalkeepers in a give and take of saves that kept the tie. Czczesny responded to the Moroccan saving on the very goal line a point-blank header from Ocampos to Navas' center. Bono was huge in a one-on-one with Di María, whom Rabiot had found between the lines, forcing the Argentine, with his right, to botch the Vaseline. The response in the other area was a hand from the Polish goalkeeper to save a great long shot from Acuña.

In half an hour, the doormen had prevented anyone from setting foot in Budapest. Kean escaped in the race and scared again with a cross shot that, again Bono, grazed to send to the post. Sevilla, far from wrinkling, began to find Rakitic more and a committed Oliver multiplied in the midfield. Now getting in the way of Juve's attempts to run, their best weapon, now filtering passes that Ocampos was trying to take advantage of. The Sevilla players were lubricating themselves, putting more and more faith in their attacks, when Fagioli's injury caused a break that put them to sleep.

That plan was not going badly for Allegri, which he had already made clear with the substitution of Alex Sandro, who suffered in the idea, Miretti or the surprising Vlahovic. The Juventine coach was in no hurry. He even saw how they were not hands a control with the two of Fagioli in the area and Locatelli marked offside before the break, which ended up being delayed due to the review of a possible penalty from Cuadrado to Oliver on the line of the area that the VAR did not either saw.

It was immediately obvious why, upon returning from the locker room. Acuña tried first with a harmless long shot and a meek double shot after a corner from Badé and En-Nesyri. Sevilla was too tender to hurt a rival whom Rabiot, in a quick transition, was able to put ahead with a whiplash that grazed Bono's post. Allegri looked at the clock. Half an hour from the end we had to take out the artillery. A minute after stepping onto the pitch, a mistake by Badé gave Vlahovic the goal.

Far from being knocked out, Sevilla continued to believe and Suso was the prophet who led them to a tie with a shot from the edge that he placed through the squad. It was Juve's turn to twist again to withstand the Sevilla siege, which was close to the second in another direct free kick by Suso and a header from En-Nesyri that Czczesny saved.

In the extension there was no help possible. In the middle of the mess, Juve found that Cuadrado missed Bryan Gil who served Lamela's second goal. With the loot in his pocket, the expulsion of Acuña did not hurt at that time. That header guarantees Sevilla to be able to write another page of their magical idyll.