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Sevilla claimed glory again by winning their seventh UEFA Cup/Europa League in their final against José Mourinho’s Roma on penalties (4-1), after the game and extra time ended 1-1, and thus expanded his legend in his favorite tournament. with a last shot scored by the Argentinian Gonzalo Montiel and with suspense, because, after having failed the first, he had to repeat it because the Portuguese Rui Patricio had advanced.

Montiel, who took the field at the end of the second half, thus imitated in Budapest the title of world champion he gave to Argentina during the recent World Cup, also converting the last shot, and in this case they also scored for the sevillistas the albicelestes Ocampos and Lamela, and the Croatian Ivan Rakitic, while Roma was not at all wise because Cristante only scored the first, then Mancini was saved by Bono and Ibáñez threw him to a post.

This new achievement for Sevilla, after a terrible season in the league, came after a titanic struggle between the two teams, in which Roma played their best tricks in the first half and went ahead in the 35th minute, by the Argentine’s Paulo Dybala, although an own goal from central defender Gianluca Mancini, at minute 55, led to Sevilla leveling in a second half in which they improved, until to overtime and a successful shootout for the Spanish team.

England centre-back Chris Smalling, however, scared the Spaniards off with a corner that hit the top of the crossbar in the 131st minute, but in the end it all ended in a penalty shootout.