0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 5/18/2016
Sevilla holds onto their Europa League dominance with a 3-1 win over Liverpool in the UEFA Europa League Final. Amid being down 1-0 and being fortunate on multiple handball no-calls, Sevilla made the perfect adjustments during halftime to take the fifth Europa League title and a trip back to the UEFA Champions League. The first […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal
The road to Basel, Switzerland has been a long one, but finally two teams have emerged and will battle it out for the Europa League title. Liverpool from the English Premier League will take on back-to-back Europa League champions Sevilla representing La Liga at St. Jakob-Park for the Europa League final. Sevilla look for an unprecedented […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 5/17/2016
Sevilla is truly an enigma in the footballing world. Three years ago they qualified to the Europa League as a ninth place team because two teams ahead of Sevilla got hit with bans from UEFA, so they were thrust into the European spotlight. Who knew that Sevilla, a team who many thought had no business […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 5/5/2016
The Europa League is drawing closer to its conclusion and Basel is awaiting the finalists as the semifinals conclude this week. Liverpool and Villarreal will have the deciding fixture at Anfield, meanwhile Shakhtar and Sevilla will try and break their 2-2 deadlock in Seville. The Shakhtar and Sevilla matchup will be an interesting one as […]
0 comments by Randy Capps on 4/28/2016
Liverpool has been in the news this week for more somber reasons, as the inquest into the Hillsborough tragedy has dominated headlines. Tonight, in the first leg of the Europa League semifinal (3 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1), Liverpool visits Villarreal in an effort to shift the focus back to the pitch. With a nine-point […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 11/3/2015
Matching what happened in their first Champions League game against each other two weeks ago in Manchester, Sevilla and Manchester City fans fought again before their Champions League game today in Seville, Spain. Two weeks ago, Manchester City fans were possibly involved in a chair throwing fight outside of a Manchester restaurant before the Manchester […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 8/11/2015
This was supposed to be a simple blowout by Barcelona and a nice tune up to their La Liga title defense. What it turned out to be was a thrilling UEFA Super Cup game between the Champions League winners Barcelona and Europa Cup winners Sevilla. To borrow a quote from Alexi Lalas, the game started […]
0 comments by Jeff Snyder on 5/28/2015
With Sevilla FC winning the Europa League for the second time in as many years, and for the fourth time in a decade, it has become clear Sevilla FC aren’t simply just another “also ran” in La Liga. This largely comes down to how extremely well the club is run. While much of the credit […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 5/27/2015
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0 comments by Phillip Bupp
The matchup in today’s UEFA Europa League didn’t necessarily scream “close game.” The defending champions Sevilla faced Ukrainian team Dnipro and many expect Sevilla to simply walk right over Dnipro to win the Europa League once again. Dnipro has another idea and they took the lead 1-0 within seven minutes with this monstrous header of […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 4/24/2015
Early this morning, the UEFA Champions League and Europa League conducted their Semifinal draws and depending on what you wanted, you either left excited or disappointed. The Semifinal will not provide us with another edition of El Clasico but it leaves the possibility of an El Clasico Champions League Final. Each matchup, no matter how […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 3/19/2015
File this one under bizarre. Sevilla defender Fernando Navarro was warming up during his game against Elche last Sunday and got an urgent call from nature that he had to pick up. Navarro couldn’t risk being called on to enter the game or miss any exciting action while he was away relieving himself so he […]
