Europa League thoroughbreds Sevilla fought back to reach yet another final as substitute Erik Lamela scored with a fabulous header five minutes into extra time to earn a gritty 2-1 win over Juventus on Thursday, securing a 3-2 aggregate victory.
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Federico Gatti scored a 97th-minute equaliser to earn Juventus a draw against Sevilla in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final. Gatti headed in from two yards after Paul Pogba superbly kept the ball in as a Danilo header was set to drift wide the goal cancelled out Youssef En-Nesyri’s 26th-minute strike.
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Harry Maguire and David De Gea errors bookended an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at Sevilla as Manchester United’s Europa League dreams went up in smoke in Spain. A week on from blowing a comfortable two-goal lead in the first leg of this quarter-final, the Red Devils withered rather than rallied at the rocking Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.
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Manchester United have been drawn against FC Barcelona in the Europa League knockout play-off round. Another big club to drop out of the Champions League at the group stages Juventus will face Nantes while Ajax head across the boarded to take on Union Berlin.
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Sevilla have re-appointed Jorge Sampaoli as head coach of the club, less than 24 hours after relieving Julen Lopetegui of his duties. The 62 year old Argentine left Marseille in the summer after leading them to second in Ligue 1 and to the Europa Conference League semi-finals.
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