Official UEFA Europa League 2013/2014

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lah enak dong kalo ada pemutihan pas mau ke final dari semifinal
kalo udah unggul tinggal main tekel sana sini, professional foul, pemaen cadangan ngerusuh masuk pas mau gol, dll
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Brych to referee UEFA Europa League final

Felix Brych will referee the 2014 UEFA Europa League final between Sevilla FC and SL Benfica, assisted by his fellow Germans Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp.



The UEFA Referees Committee today announced the referee for the 2014 UEFA Europa League final between Sevilla FC and SL Benfica at Turin's Juventus Stadium next Wednesday at 20.45CET.

The match will be handled by 38-year-old German referee Felix Brych, a FIFA badge holder since 2007 with 50 matches in UEFA competition to his name. He was a fourth official for last season's UEFA Europa League showpiece in Amsterdam and has officiated at six UEFA Champions League games this term, including the quarter-final first leg between FC Barcelona and Club Atlético de Madrid.

A financial lawyer in his home city of Munich, Brych began refereeing in Germany's amateur leagues in 1999, stepping up to the 2. Bundesliga two years later and reaching the top flight in 2004. He was given his first assignments in UEFA club competition in 2007/08, and his group stage debut as a UEFA Champions League referee the following season. He oversaw two matches at the 2012 Olympic Games in London having taken charge of the Cypriot Cup final that May.

Brych will be assisted by his fellow countrymen Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp. The fourth official is Milorad Mažić from Serbia and the two additional assistant referees, Tobias Welz and Bastian Dankert, are both from Germany. A German reserve assistant referee – Thorsten Schiffner – completes the refereeing team lineup.

Last year's final referee, Dutchman Björn Kuipers, has been handed the whistle for the UEFA Champions League final on 24 May.

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Udah ah.. 3 hari yang lalu

 

24 jam menuju final

Final 2014: Turin, Italia​

Juventus Stadium, yang dibuka pada September 2011, akan menggelar final Liga Europa 2013/2014 pada hari Kamis, 15 Mei 2014, pkl. 1.45 WIB dini hari.

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Stadion yang berkapasitas 41.000 itu dibangun di lokasi stadion lama Juventus yaitu Stadio Delle Alpi, yang pernah digunakan untuk menyelenggarakan Piala Dunia FIFA 1990. Juventus membeli stadion tersebut dari pemerintah setempat untuk membangun rumah baru mereka dan menjadi klub Italia pertama yang memiliki stadion sendiri.

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Turin belum pernah menyaksikan final tunggal di salah satu kompetisi klub top Eropa. Delapan final sebelumnya - semua di Piala Eropa - terjadi di kota lain di Italia: 4 di Stadio Olimpico Roma, 3 di San Siro Milan, dan 1 di Stadio San Nicola Bari. Namun Turin pernah menyaksikan Juventus meraih 3 Piala UEFA ketika masih menggunakan format Home-Away: 2 kali mereka melihatnya di Stadio Comunale, dan yang terakhir pada 1992/93 di Stadio Delle Alpi.

 

Finalist profile: Benfica​

SL Benfica's sorrow was acute after last season's final defeat by Chelsea FC, but Jorge Jesus has impressively galvanised his team to reach their second consecutive showpiece.

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SL Benfica's sorrow was acute after last season's final defeat by Chelsea FC, but Jorge Jesus has impressively galvanised his charges by leading them to the brink of glory once more. The Eagles have swept all before them since dropping out of the UEFA Champions League, exhibition grit, determination and finesse to become the first side to reach the UEFA Europa League decider unbeaten.

Story of the season
Benfica underlined their credentials in the round of 32, strolling to a 4-0 aggregate win over PAOK FC. Tottenham Hotspur FC were expected to provide sterner opposition in the last-16, but Jesus' side produced a swashbuckling display at White Hart Lane, running out 3-1 winners before a 2-2 Lisbon stalemate.

They subsequently made light work of quarter-final opponents AZ Alkmaar, sending three unanswered goals past the Eredivisie team over two legs. With Juventus standing between Benfica and a place in the final, strikes from Ezequiel Garay and Lima either side of Carlos Tévez's leveller laid the foundations for a heroic goalless draw in Turin.

Final pedigree
P2 W0 L2
Last 2012/13 v Chelsea FC (Amsterdam ArenA)

Record against final opponents
Benfica and Sevilla FC were both new to UEFA competition when they met for the first time in the 1957/58 European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round. Vicente Pahuet opened the scoring in the first leg, but Francisco Palmeiro equalised. Antonio Iborra restored the hosts' advantage and Pepillo sealed a two-goal advantage late on.

Sevilla goalkeeper José María Busto was in inspired form in the Lisbon return, ensuring the Spanish side's progress. The Eagles, though, already played two finals against Spanish opposition, and won both – against FC Barcelona (European Champion Clubs' Cup, 1960,61) and Real Madrid CF (European Champion Clubs' Cup, 1961/62).

Key moment
Lima's ruthless 84th-minute winner against Juventus earned a vital 2-1 first-leg lead, yet it would have counted for nothing had captain Luisão not blunted the Bianconeri in the 0-0 return. The centre back's sheer will to win was epitomised on the stroke of half-time at the Juventus stadium, when he headed Arturo Vidal's looping header off the line with keeper Jan Oblak stranded.

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"In five years we have got to two Europa League finals and one semi-final: it is a record that nobody can take away from us. We are in the final on merit and we deserve everything that is happening to us." Benfica coach Jorge Jesus

Top scorer
Despite being handed a starting berth just twice in eight UEFA Europa League outings, Brazilian striker Lima has registered four times. Averaging a goal every 70 minutes in this competition, the 30-year-old will be eager to get his hands on a trophy that has so far eluded him at SC Braga and Benfica.

Unsung hero
Back at the club after a two-year long loan at Braga, Rúben Amorim has stepped up to the mark in the wake of Nemanja Matić's departure to Chelsea FC. A pivotal presence in central midfield, Amorim caught the eye at Tottenham with a judiciously weighted through ball for Rodrigo to open the scoring.

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Finalist profile: Sevilla​

Displaying their usual penchant for the dramatic in this season's UEFA Europa League, Sevilla FC – UEFA Cup champions in 2006 and 2007 – are looking for a third triumph.

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En route to winning back-to-back UEFA Cups in 2006 and 2007, Sevilla FC enjoyed two tournament defining moments, while this season's path to the UEFA Europa League final has proved just as incident-filled for the Andalusian side.

A semi-final goal in extra-time against FC Schalke 04 by fallen hero Antonio Puerta secured Sevilla's passage through to the 2005/06 showpiece while goalkeeper Andrés Palop's header in the fourth minute of injury time away to FC Shakhtar Donetsk proved crucial in taking the holders into the quarter-finals the following season. This time around, Stéphane Mbia will be remembered as the man who supplied the magic moment in Sevilla's final run after the 27-year-old loanee from Queens Park Rangers FC headed his team through in the last seconds against Valencia CF at the Mestalla.

Story of the season
Exactly nine months passed between Sevilla's first game in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League and the night on which they achieved qualification for the final away to Valencia. Having come through 18 games - which began with a third qualifying round win against FK Mladost Podgorica - coach Unai Emery will now look to continue the legacy of Juande Ramos, who oversaw the club's two previous UEFA Cup triumphs.

After accounting for WKS Śląsk Wrocław in a play-off last August, Sevilla went on to emerge unbeaten and on top of a section that included FC Slovan Liberec, SC Freiburg and Estoril Praia. A round of 32 triumph against NK Maribor set up a last 16 meeting with city rivals Real Betis Balompié. With Los Verdiblancos inflicting a first defeat in the tournament on Emery's charges, a response was required in the return, which Sevilla supplied, before advancing on penalties. FC Porto were subsequently vanquished at the quarter-final stage before another all-Liga encounter against Valencia transpired. Leading the tie 3-2 in the closing stages of the second leg, Valencia would eventually succumb Mbia's injury time heroics.

Final pedigree
P2 W2 L0
Last, 2006/07: RCD Espanyol 2-2 Sevilla FC (Sevilla win 3-1 on penalties, Hampden Park, Glasgow)

Record against final opponents
Sevilla finished the 1956/57 Liga campaign in second place behind Real Madrid CF. However, thanks to the league champions' European Cup triumph that season, the southern Spanish side were invited to compete for the continent's greatest club prize along with the tournament holders. It was in their inaugural European Cup campaign that Sevilla met Benfica for the first - and to date only - time. Sevilla won the first leg of the preliminary round encounter by 3-1 before earning a scoreless draw in Lisbon to advance. Their tournament would eventually end at the hands of Madrid in the quarter-finals.

Key moment
Trailing 3-0 to a Valencia side that looked to have produced another memorable comeback in this season's UEFA Europa League, Sevilla's cause looked lost after they squandered a 2-0 first leg lead. With the clock heading towards the 94th minute, a long throw-in from Coke was flicked on by Federico Fazio for Cameroon international Mbia to change the destiny of the semi-final with his headed goal.

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"There are almost no words to explain this night, to explain this game. Thank god things ended this way, in our favour."
Sevilla captain Ivan Rakitić after his side's dramatic progress to this season's final.

Top scorer
Coach Unai Emery has found an admirable balance between Colombian forward Carlos Bacca - who has four goals in this season's tournament - and his attacking team-mate Kevin Gameiro. It is the French international with five goals - four in the group stage and one against FC Porto in the quarter-finals - who leads the way in the Sevilla scoring stakes, however.

Unsung hero
Up against it against rivals Betis in the round of 16, Sevilla achieved a 2-0 away win to send the tie into extra time. Full-back Alberto Moreno played a starring role in the second leg at the Benito Villamarín, providing goal assists for José Antonio Reyes and Bacca, before Emery's team advanced on penalties.

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Facts: Sevilla v Benfica
(Final hurdle facing Sevilla and Benfica)​

The quest for the UEFA Europa League trophy ends at Turin's Juventus Stadium, with two-time winners Sevilla FC taking on double European champions SL Benfica.

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Sevilla FC are looking to add victory in the UEFA Europa League to their two recent UEFA Cup successes, while SL Benfica aim to end a seven-game run of defeats in UEFA finals – including last year's disappointment – and a 14-match, 32-year winless run against Spanish opposition.

Previous meetings
• The sides' only previous UEFA meeting came in the preliminary round of the 1957/58 European Champion Clubs' Cup; in what was both teams' first tie in European competition, Satur Grech's Sevilla beat Otto Glória's Benfica 3-1 at home, progressing with a 0-0 draw in Lisbon.

• The teams in Seville on 19 September 1957 were:
Sevilla: Busto, Romero, Campanal, Valero, Ramoní, Herrera, Iborra, Arza, Pepillo, Pepin, Pahuet.
Benfica: José Bastos, Ângelo Martins, Calado, Pegado, Serra, Alfredo Abrantes, Palmeiro, Coluna, Águas, Caiado, Cavém.

• Vicente Pahuet, who scored the opener in the first leg, said: "When games finished then, the teams ate together. That day was great. I'm not a handsome man, but the club directors were all coming up to me saying, 'Oh, Pahuet, you are just gorgeous.'"

• For the return fixture on 26 September, in which Sevilla goalkeeper José Maria Busto put in a star performance, José Martins replaced Caiado in the Benfica lineup, while Sevilla fielded Manuel Ruiz Sosa, Arsenio Iglesias and Lorenzo Martínez in place of Ramoní, Arza and Pepillo.

• Sevilla beat AGF Aarhus in the first round but lost to Real Madrid CF in the quarter-finals, going down 8-0 in the Spanish capital before a 2-2 home draw.

• Since they met Benfica in their debut European campaign, a tile bearing the Eagles' crest features in the façade of Sevilla's Ramon Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium.

• Sevilla have played 16 UEFA games against Portuguese sides, including four this season; they won 2-1 away and drew 1-1 at home against Estoril Praia in the group stage, then eliminated FC Porto in the quarter-finals, losing 1-0 away before triumphing 4-1 in Spain. In total, their record in those 16 games reads W8 D3 L5.

• Benfica have played 22 games against Spanish sides in Europe with the record W5 D7 L10. They have not won in their last 14 games against Spanish opponents (D6 L8) since a 2-1 victory at Sevilla's city rivals Real Betis Balompié on 29 September 1982 – although their only two European final victories have come against Spanish sides.

• This is Sevilla's first competitive game in Turin, but Benfica have played Juventus at all three of their successive homes; they won 1-0 at the Stadio Olimpico in the 1967/68 European Cup semi-finals, lost 3-0 in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup quarter-finals at the Stadio Delle Alpi, then eliminated this season's final hosts with a 0-0 draw at Juventus Stadium in the 2013/14 semi-finals.

Final pedigree
• In terms of European trophies, the sides are equal with two apiece; however, Benfica have suffered seven final defeats since winning their second European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1962, while Sevilla boast a 100% record in UEFA finals to date.

• Benfica's previous UEFA finals ended as follows:
1-2 v Chelsea FC, 2012/13 UEFA Europa League
0-1 v AC Milan, 1989/90 European Cup
0-0 aet (5-6 on penalties) v PSV Eindhoven, 1987/88 European Cup
1-2 (agg) v RSC Anderlecht, 1982/83 UEFA Cup
1-4 (aet) v Manchester United FC, 1967/68 European Cup
0-1 v FC Internazionale Milano, 1964/65 European Cup
1-2 v AC Milan, 1962/63 European Cup
5-3 v Real Madrid CF, 1961/62 European Cup
3-2 v FC Barcelona, 1960/61 European Cup

• Sevilla's only previous UEFA finals were:
2-2 aet (3-1 on penalties) v RCD Espanyol, 2006/07 UEFA Cup
4-0 v Middlesbrough FC, 2005/06 UEFA Cup

• Benfica have never won the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League, but have been losing finalists in both incarnations of the competition – to RSC Anderlecht in the two-legged 1982/83 final, and to Chelsea FC in last season's Amsterdam decider.

• The Eagles reached the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2009/10, the semi-finals in 2010/11 and – after a one-season absence from the competition – the 2012/13 final.

• Benfica's two European Cup final victories are the only previous occasions when Spanish and Portuguese clubs have met in major UEFA finals.

• Benfica also reached the inaugural UEFA Youth League final this season, but lost out to FC Barcelona in Nyon.

Turin finals
• The new Juventus Stadium is staging its first major UEFA final. It is the sixth time that a UEFA final – or at least part of one – has been staged in Turin, with Juventus and neighbours Torino FC both playing the home legs of UEFA Cup finals in the city, while the 1984 UEFA Super Cup was settled by a single meeting in Turin.

• The previous Turin finals were as follows:
1992/93 UEFA Cup (second leg): Juventus 3-0 Borussia Dortmund (agg: 6-1)
1991/92 UEFA Cup (first leg): Torino FC 2-2 AFC Ajax (agg: 2-2, Ajax win on away goals)
1989/90 UEFA Cup (first leg): Juventus 3-1 ACF Fiorentina (agg: 3-1)
1984 UEFA Super Cup: Juventus 2-0 Liverpool FC
1976/77 UEFA Cup (first leg): Juventus 1-0 Athletic Club (agg: 2-2, Juventus win on away goals)

Team facts
• Lisbon is around 310km away from Seville. Sevilla's journey to Turin is around 1400km, with Benfica's voyage slightly longer: around 1550km.

• Benfica are the first side to reach a UEFA Europa League final without losing a game. Since transferring from the UEFA Champions League group stage, they have won six and drawn two of their eight fixtures.

• Sevilla have made it all the way from the third qualifying round to the final, which will be their 19th game in this season's competition. They are the third side to follow this path, following 2009/10 runners-up Fulham FC and 2011/12 winners Club Atlético de Madrid.

• Benfica are bidding to become the third UEFA Europa League winners out of five to have crossed over mid-season from the UEFA Champions League, after Atlético (2009/10) and Chelsea FC (2012/13).

• Sevilla are on a quest to win the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League for the third time. Only three other sides have reached that mark before – Juventus (1976/77, 1989/90, 1992/93), FC Internazionale Milano (1990/91, 1993/94, 1997/98) and Liverpool (1972/73, 1975/76, 2000/01).

• Sevilla qualified for the final exactly nine months after their first game in the tournament this season, a third qualifying round win against FK Mladost Podgorica.

• The Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica could briefly house both the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League trophies if Benfica are triumphant, with the UEFA Champions League final to be held there on 24 May.

• Benfica are the highest-scoring team in the history of the UEFA Europa League with 68 goals in 37 games.

• Benfica claimed the Portuguese title on 20 April and on 7 May beat Rio Ave FC in the League Cup final; they will play the same opponents in the Portuguese Cup final on 18 May. Their success in reaching the finals of both Portugal's major cup competitions this season means they will end up playing 57 competitive games this season, their highest total ever.

• Benfica will be the fourth UEFA Europa League finalists from Portugal, and Sevilla the fourth from Spain. Only one other country, England, has been involved in the competition decider, with Fulham finishing runners-up in 2009/10 and Chelsea lifting the trophy in 2012/13.

Player facts
• With five goals, Kevin Gameiro is Sevilla's top European goalscorer this season; Lima has been Benfica's leading marksman with four in the UEFA Europa League, and one more in the UEFA Champions League group stage.

• Benfica's Óscar Cardozo has scored the most European goals of any player left in the UEFA Europa League: 33 in 75 appearances.

• Luisão and Lazar Marković – who is suspended for the final – are the only players to have featured in all eight of Benfica's UEFA Europa League games this season. With 107 UEFA club competition appearances, Brazilian defender Luisão has more European experience than any other player in the final squads.

• Ivan Rakitić has played the most games of any Sevilla player since the start of the UEFA Europa League group stage – 13, one more than Carlos Bacca and Vitolo.

• Nicolás Gaitán could make his 50th UEFA club competition appearance in the final.

• Lima was part of the SC Braga side that defeated Sevilla in a UEFA Champions League play-off in 2010, scoring a hat-trick in a 4-3 second-leg win. Benfica's Artur and Sílvio were both also part of that Braga squad: the goalkeeper was on the bench in both legs and the versatile defender played the two matches. Federico Fazio featured in both legs for Sevilla, while Javi Varas was an unused substitute in both games.

• Stéphane Mbia's goal in the semi-final second leg was his fourth in six games. It took the midfielder 120 games to score his previous four goals.

• Sevilla's on-loan German midfielder Marko Marin was a member of the Chelsea FC squad that reached the UEFA Europa League final last season, though he was not part of the squad that beat Benfica in the final in Amsterdam.

• Benfica's Lima and Artur have already been on the losing side in two UEFA Europa League finals: with SC Braga in 2010/11 and Benfica last season.

• Benfica's Eduardo Salvio, who is also suspended for the final, has made a record 40 UEFA Europa League appearances. He came on as a substitute in Atlético's 2010 and 2012 final victories, before finishing on the losing side in 2012/13. He could become the first player to win it for a third time.

• Salvio scored for Atlético against a Sevilla side featuring Rakitić, José Antonio Reyes and Fazio in a 1-1 Liga away draw in 2011/12.

• Five Benfica players have Spanish league experience: Salvio (Atlético 2010–12), Rodrigo (Madrid 2009/10), Ezequiel Garay (Real Racing Club 2005–08 and 2008/09, Madrid 2008–11), Guilherme Siqueira (Gránada CF 2010–13) and the injured Sílvio (Atlético 2010–13, RC Deportivo La Coruña 2013).

• Sevilla forward Reyes, who had a loan spell at Benfica in 2008/09, played alongside Salvio and Sílvio at Atlético.

• Garay scored Racing Club's goal in a 4-1 away defeat against Sevilla in the 2007/08 Liga season before being sent off for a second bookable offence.

• Sevilla have three players with Portuguese Liga experience: goalkeeper Beto (Sporting Clube de Portugal 2001–04, GD Chaves 2004/05, FC Marco 2005/06, Leixões SC 2006–09, Porto 2009–12, Braga 2012/13), and defenders Diogo Figueiras (Pinhalnovense FC 2010/11, FC Paços de Ferreira 2011–13, Moreirense FC 2012) and Daniel Carriço (Sporting 2007–12, SC Olhanense 2007).

• Figueiras came through Benfica's youth system but never made it to the first team, joining Pinhalnovense in 2010.

• Sevilla's Beto and Benfica's Lima and Rúben Amorim were Braga team-mates in 2012/13, though Lima left for Benfica early in the season.

• Benfica goalkeeper Jan Oblak could become the first Slovenian to appear in a UEFA Europa League final, and the first of his countrymen to feature in a UEFA final since Zlatko Zahovič was on the losing side with Valencia CF in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League. Srečko Katanec was the last Slovenian to win a UEFA club competition, lifting the European Cup Winners' Cup with UC Sampdoria in 1990.

• Benfica's Rodrigo and Sevilla's Alberto Moreno won the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship together with Spain.

The coaches
• Sevilla coach since January 2013, Unai Emery started out as a midfielder at Real Sociedad de Fútbol, but spent the bulk of his career in Spain's second division, switching from playing to coaching at Lorca Deportiva CF after a serious knee injury. Having led UD Almería to the top tier he coached Valencia from 2008 to 2012, with his side regular European contenders during that spell. More recently, he had a brief stint at FC Spartak Moskva.

• Emery led Valencia to back-to-back wins against another Portuguese side, CS Marítimo, in his first games as a coach in Europe, in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup.

• His Spartak side met Jorge Jesus's Benfica in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage; Spartak won 2-1 in Moscow but went down 2-0 in the return fixture in Lisbon. Lima scored for Benfica in the first game, while Óscar Cardozo registered twice in the return. Nicolas Pareja – now on loan at Sevilla from Spartak – featured in both matches.

• Benfica coach Jesus followed his father Jesus Virgolino by signing for Sporting Clube de Portugal as a youngster and was a journeyman midfielder before moving into coaching. He took charge of a number of Portuguese clubs and was given the Benfica job in June 2009 after leading Braga to the last 16 of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup. As well as guiding the Eagles to successive UEFA Europa League finals, Jesus won his second Liga title with Benfica this term and his fourth league cup in five attempts.

• The final will be Jesus's 50th game as a coach in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League.

• Jesus is the only Benfica coach – apart from Béla Guttmann in the 1960/61 and 1961/62 European Cup campaigns – to have led the club to European finals in successive seasons.

Extra-time and penalties
• Sevilla's record in four UEFA club competition penalty shoot-outs is W3 L1:
4-3 (away) v Real Betis Balompié, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16
2-3 (home) v Fenerbahçe SK, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16
3-1 (neutral) v RCD Espanyol. 2006/07 UEFA Cup final
4-3 (away) v PAOK FC, 1990/91 UEFA Cup first round

• Benfica's record in UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L1:
4-1 (home) v PAOK, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup second round
5-6 (neutral) v PSV Eindhoven, 1987/88 European Champion Clubs' Cup final

• Only once has more than one goal been scored in extra time in nine UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League finals, with both Sevilla and RCD Espanyol registering in the additional period during the 2006/07 decider.

• Five UEFA Cup finals were settled on penalties, while none have gone all the way since the advent of the UEFA Europa League:
1983/84: Tottenham Hotspur FC 2-2 RSC Anderlecht (agg; Spurs win 4-3 on pens in London)
1987/88: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3-3 RCD Espanyol (agg; Leverkusen win 3-2 on pens in Leverkusen)
1996/97: FC Internazionale Milano 1-1 FC Schalke 04 (agg; Schalke win 4-1 on pens in Milan)
1999/00: Galatasaray AŞ 0-0 Arsenal FC (Galatasaray win 4-1 on pens in Copenhagen)
2006/07: RCD Espanyol 2-2 Sevilla FC (Sevilla win 3-1 on pens in Glasgow)

• Four more were decided in extra time:
2000/01: Liverpool FC 5-4 Deportivo Alavés (in Dortmund, golden goal, 4-4 after 90 mins)
2002/03: Celtic FC 2-3 FC Porto (in Seville, 2-2 after 90 mins)
2008/09: FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 SV Werder Bremen (in Istanbul, 1-1 after 90 mins)
2009/10: Club Atlético de Madrid 2-1 Fulham FC (in Hamburg, 1-1 after 90 mins)

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Sevilla v Benfica preview
(Benfica and Sevilla set for Europa League final)​

SL Benfica are halfway towards a unique quadruple but they will have to overcome history-seeking Sevilla FC and a 52-year curse to earn UEFA Europa League glory.

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Jorge Jesus believes his SL Benfica side are ready to break their European final curse in Wednesday's UEFA Europa League final when they take on a Sevilla FC team seeking a record-equalling third triumph.

Since back-to-back European Cup successes at the start of the 1960s Benfica have lost all seven of their major UEFA showpieces – the Eagles landed, but have not quite managed to take off again since. Yet there is a sense that this could be their year. Twelve months ago, Benfica went into the final against Chelsea FC with their season already unravelling with the finish line in sight. Dreams of a treble evaporated over the space of 15 days. They ended up with nothing.

This time, they arrive in Turin with two trophies already under their belts, the championship and Portuguese League Cup – the fruits of a "five-year project". Jesus said: "Over the past year we've tried going down a similar route to last season, at least in getting to the final. Now, our know-how comes in. We've been here before and are stronger for the experience, we know what to expect. "In the past we've gone match by match but over the past year it's been taking things final by final"."

Indeed, with Sunday's Portuguese Cup decider in Oeiras to come, Benfica could end the campaign with a unique quadruple and unforgettable scenes at the Praça Marquês de Pombal, the traditional focus of club celebrations. The spectre of 12 months ago looms large, however, and Jesus is taking nothing for granted. He avoids the favourites' tag which Benfica's form, experience and last-four victory over Juventus has earned them like a poisoned chalice: "Sevilla have history in this competition."

Opposite number Unai Emery is only too aware of it, and though he was still making his way as a coach at UD Almería when the Spanish side won back-to-back titles under Juande Ramos in 2005/06 and 2006/07, he admits it fuelled a hunger. "I remember watching and wondering what it would be like to be in that situation one day," said the 42-year-old, gearing up for his first final. "And now I am here and eager to make the most of it. "Opportunities appear when you're there, and we're here"."

It has been some journey for the Andalusians, a 19-game campaign that began on 1 August in the third qualifying round. Sevilla's season was listing three months ago, threatening to sink without a trace, before a run of 13 wins in 16 outings breathed new life into their campaign. "The path to this final has been very long, but wonderful too," added Emery. "We have grown already and tomorrow we will grow more whatever happens. It would be wonderful to finish it with a trophy."

The Sevilla boss admits that suspensions to Benfica trio Enzo Pérez, Eduardo Salvio and Lazar Marković make this an even contest, although he will similarly be without Jairo Samperio while Kevin Gameiro and Vitolo are injury doubts. It is 50-50 all the way: apart, of course, from that 52-year wait for Benfica. "It's up to break the curse; the opportunity to lay that ghost to rest gives us greater strength," said Jesus. "It's going to be broken one day. Why not here in Turin?"

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juve blm layak berjaya di eropa . masih jago kandang

 

kapan layaknya
apa harus 6 scudetto berturut2 agar bisa jaya di eropa