Sevilla ramped up the attacking pressure (with loads of crosses) and forced a critical error 10 minutes after the restart. Roma looked to defend their lead as the second half began, without a shot attempted from minute 36 to minute 67. Dybala smashed a left-footed strike past Moroccan World Cup hero Yassine Bounou to put Roma on top. Bryan Cristante bodied Ivan Rakitic off the ball, which fell to Mancini, who played an immediate through ball that split the right side of Sevilla’s defense and sent Dybala in on goal. On the other side, for the first time in his legendary career Jose Mourinho has beaten in a UEFA final, having won two Champions League, a Europa League and a Europa Conference League trophy in his previous four final appearances.Īfter the sides combined for just two shots in the opening half-hour, Gianluca Mancini and Paulo Dybala provided a brief moment of quality and counter-attacking brilliance in the 35th minute. Despite the fact they will finish mid-table in La Liga this season, Sevilla also qualify for next season’s UEFA Champions League. It also makes five Europa League titles in 10 seasons for Sevilla, who have no won Europe’s “other” competition more than twice as many times as any other club (Liverpool, Inter Milan, Juventus and Atletico Madrid have all won it three times each). Sevilla kept their perfect Europa League final record alive, as they made it seven trophies in seven tries with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Jose Mourinho’s Roma in Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday. ![]() We still think Man City not finding a way to make it happen in August was the biggest mistake of the season. And with Lewandowski in the final year of his contract, a move will come sooner rather than later. Lewandowski is not signing another deal in Munich. Haaland is not going to Bayern while Lewandowski is still there. The Norwegian striker scores for fun and apart from Kylian Mbappe is perhaps the only center forward who could do as much for a side as Lewandowski (apologies to Lionel Messi, who isn’t exactly a center forward anyway). That’s about the only way, even including release clauses, that Bayern could make its latest Klassiker raid include Erling Haaland. So this seems extremely unlikely, especially as Lewandowski tries to go somewhere that amplifies his already-remarkable legacy. How does a team give Romelu Lukaku and Robert Lewandowski the best chances to hit their clinical-finishing best at the same time, as clearly neither player is prepared to be a second-choice center forward (nor should they even be considering it). The logistics of the actual player-for-player swap makes sense but not when system is added into the mix. He has not played outside Der Klassiker rivals Bayern and Borussia Dortmund - the next derby is this weekend - since leaving Lech Poznan in 2010. Lewandowski is 7.5 years older than Chelsea’s German star but is averaging more than a goal-per-game between the Champions League and Bundesliga this season. The prospect for Tuchel/Werner is appealing and is being discussed.” A move which could include Werner going to Bayern. “It is certainly the case that he (Pini Zahavi) has offered Lewandowski to Chelsea and Granovskaia. He scored 12 goals with 16 assists in his first season at Chelsea. ![]() Werner was moving toward the title of most complete playmaking forward when he left for Chelsea on the heels of a 34-goal, 22-assist season across all competitions with RB Leipzig in 2019-20. ![]() Lewandowski has also been linked with Real Madrid - for quite a while, actually - and the 33-year-old Polish striker is one of, if not the most prolific center forwards in the world. Arsenal transfer news, live! Latest reports, rumors, updates Robert Lewandowski to Chelsea, Timo Werner to Bayern Munich
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