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Sevilla and Roma face off today in the final of the Europa League in a bid to secure success in Budapest, where a resurgent Spanish side, at best after a dismal season in the league, will seek their seventh title in the tournament of which they are king against an Italian side who, once again led by José Mourinho, they hope to repeat the feat of last year, when they won the first League Conference.

The Sevillistas, after a disastrous campaign in Ligue 1, where they spent almost the entire course fighting to avoid relegation to the second division – something unprecedented in this century of success for the six-time UEFA Cup / Europa League champion – have been revived since the arrival two months ago of José Luis Mendilibar on their bench, and now they hope to repeat their success during the second continental competition, on the banks of the Danube, in the Hungarian capital.

He shares the record of being undefeated in the final, not counting the Super Cups; However, with the Sevilla side, which emerged victorious in all six UEFA Cup/Europa League matches they played: 2006, in Eindhoven; 2007, in Glasgow; 2014, in Torino; 2015, in Warsaw; 2016, in Basel, and in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, in Cologne.

Sevilla, eleventh in the championship after losing to Real Madrid (1-2) on Saturday in the home stretch of the championship where he took advantage of massive rotations to balance the efforts of the workforce for the final in Budapest, is a classic of their favorite competition and on this occasion they are chasing what would be their seventh title, which would imply qualification for the Champions League, something crucial for their sporting and economic future.