Uefa Europa League - 2019/20 Season Match Press Kits
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS MSV Arena - Duisburg Tuesday 11 August 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Wolverhampton Sevilla FC Wanderers FC Matchday 11 - Quarter-finals Last updated 11/08/2020 10:16CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Sevilla FC Tuesday 11 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit MSV Arena, Duisburg Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Calleri 16, 57 (P), RCD Espanyol - Wolverhampton 3-2 27/02/2020 R32 Barcelona 90+1; Traoré 22, Wanderers FC agg: 3-6 Doherty 79 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Diogo Jota 15, 67, 81, 20/02/2020 R32 4-0 Wolverhampton RCD Espanyol Rúben Neves 52 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Murray 35, Mason 78; Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 2-5 02/03/1960 QF Wolverhampton Kocsis 29, 44, 61, 74, FC Barcelona agg: 2-9 Villaverde 79 Villaverde 8, 80, FC Barcelona - Wolverhampton 10/02/1960 QF 4-0 Barcelona Kubala 16, Evaristo Wanderers FC 65 Sevilla FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - Sevilla 1-2 R. Lukaku 84; Ben 13/03/2018 R16 Manchester FC agg: 1-2 Yedder 74, 78 Sevilla FC - Manchester United 21/02/2018 R16 0-0 Seville FC Ben Yedder 51, 60 (P), Pizarro 90+3; 21/11/2017 GS Sevilla FC - Liverpool FC 3-3 Seville Firmino 2, 30, Mané 22 Firmino 21, Salah 37; 13/09/2017 GS Liverpool FC - Sevilla FC 2-2 Liverpool Ben Yedder 5, Correa 72 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Morgan 27, Albrighton 14/03/2017 R16 Leicester City FC - Sevilla FC Leicester agg: 3-2 54 Sarabia 25, Correa 22/02/2017 R16 Sevilla FC - Leicester City FC 2-1 Seville 62; Vardy 73 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sturridge 35; Gameiro 18/05/2016 F Liverpool FC - Sevilla FC 1-3 Basel 46, Coke 64, 70 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Sevilla FC Tuesday 11 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit MSV Arena, Duisburg UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Trémoulinas 25; Sterling 8, 03/11/2015 GS Sevilla FC - Manchester City FC 1-3 Seville Fernandinho 11, Bony 36 Rami 36 (og), De 21/10/2015 GS Manchester City FC - Sevilla FC 2-1 Manchester Bruyne 90+1; Konoplyanka 30 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Keita 24, Luís 27/11/2007 GS Sevilla FC - Arsenal FC 3-1 Seville Fabiano 34, Kanouté 89 (P); Eduardo 11 Fàbregas 27, Van 19/09/2007 GS Arsenal FC - Sevilla FC 3-0 London Persie 59, Eduardo 90+2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Defoe 65, Lennon 66; 2-2 12/04/2007 QF Tottenham Hotspur - Sevilla FC London Malbranque 3 (og), agg: 3-4 Kanouté 8 Kanouté 19 (P), A. 05/04/2007 QF Sevilla FC - Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Seville Kerzhakov 36; Keane 2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Luís Fabiano 27, 10/05/2006 F Middlesbrough FC - Sevilla FC 0-4 Eindhoven Maresca 78, 84, Kanouté 89 N'Gotty 66; Adriano 14/12/2005 GS Bolton Wanderers FC - Sevilla FC 1-1 Bolton 74 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 8 12 Sevilla FC 6 3 2 1 7 1 3 3 2 2 0 0 15 6 5 4 26 23 3 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Sevilla FC Tuesday 11 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit MSV Arena, Duisburg Match background Sevilla's quest for a record fourth UEFA Europa League triumph continues in the German city of Duisburg, venue for their round of 16 victory against Roma, as they vie with competition debutants Wolverhampton Wanderers for a place in the semi-finals. • Wolves, in their first European adventure for 39 years, finished runners-up to Braga in Group K, accumulating 13 points, and were comfortable winners over fellow UEFA Europa League first-timers Espanyol in the round of 32 (4-0 h, 2-3 a). They squeezed past Greek champions Olympiacos in the round of 16, Raúl Jiménez's penalty at Molineux proving sufficient to see them through after a 1-1 draw in Greece. • Sevilla coasted through Group A last autumn, winning their first five matches before signing off with a defeat at fellow qualifiers APOEL. They found the going tougher in the round of 32, needing the away goals rule to get past Romanian champions CFR Cluj (1-1 a, 0-0 h), but rediscovered their best form to beat Roma 2-0 in their single-leg round of 16 tie, first-half strikes from Sergio Reguilón and Youssef En-Nesyri at the MSV Arena carrying the club through to their fourth UEFA Europa League quarter-final. Previous meetings • This is the clubs' first meeting in UEFA competition. • Wolves have already overcome Spanish opposition this season, eliminating Espanyol in the round of 32. Their only other games against a Spanish club came back in the 1959/60 European Cup second round, when they were twice beaten heavily by Barcelona (0-4 a, 2-5 h). • English teams have been frequent adversaries for Sevilla in recent years, with results largely favouring the Andalusian side. Victorious against Liverpool in the 2016 UEFA Europa League final (3-1) – as they had been against Middlesbrough in the UEFA Cup equivalent a decade earlier (4-0) – they have lost just once in six games against Premier League opposition since then, 0-2 at Leicester City in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (2-3 aggregate). Twelve months later, however, they overcame Manchester United in the same round, drawing 0-0 in Seville and winning 2-1 at Old Trafford. Form guide Wolves • In their first season after promotion to the Premier League, Wolves finished seventh in 2018/19 to return to European competition for the first time since they lost in the first round of the 1980/81 UEFA Cup to PSV Eindhoven. • Wolves began this UEFA Europa League campaign in July 2019 and went on to win all six qualifying matches, knocking out Crusaders, Pyunik and, in the play-offs, Torino. They lost their opening group game, 0-1 at home to Braga, but took maximum points off Beşiktaş (1-0 a, 4-0 h) and Slovan Bratislava (2-1 a, 1-0 h) as well as drawing 3-3 in northern Portugal. • The West Midlanders' best European experience by some distance – and their only other post-Christmas participation in UEFA competition – came in the inaugural UEFA Cup of 1971/72, when they went all the way to the final before losing 3-2 on aggregate to English rivals Tottenham Hotspur. • Wolves' European record this season is W12 D2 L2 with 38 goals scored and 13 conceded. The only one of the 16 matches in which they failed to score was the Matchday 1 fixture at home to Braga. • Previous UEFA competition visits to Germany have brought one win and three defeats for Wolves. The club's very first European away fixture, in the 1958/59 European Cup first round, resulted in a 2-1 defeat by Schalke in Gelsenkirchen to complete a 4-3 aggregate loss. Sevilla • Sevilla played 16 UEFA Europa League matches last season, progressing from the second qualifying round to the round of 16, where they were dramatically eliminated by Slavia Praha after an extra-time defeat in the Czech capital. The Andalusian club re-qualified for this competition by finishing sixth in the 2018/19 Liga, which secured an automatic group stage berth. • The three-time UEFA Europa League winners have never failed to progress from their group, making it five qualifications out of five this term and doing so as group winners for the third time. They defeated both Qarabağ and Dudelange home and away and also won 1-0 at home to APOEL before ending the section with a defeat by the same scoreline in Cyprus. Their final tally of 15 points was the most achieved by any team in this season's group stage, although the two draws against CFR which followed meant that the victory against Roma ended a three-match winless streak. • Sevilla have won all three of their previous UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, overcoming Porto in 2013/14 (0-1 a, 4-1 h), Zenit in 2014/15 (2-1 h, 2-2 a) and Athletic Club in 2015/16 (2-1 a, 1-2 h, 5-4 on pens). In each of those 4 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Sevilla FC Tuesday 11 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit MSV Arena, Duisburg seasons they went on to lift the trophy. • Sevilla have a positive record on German soil in UEFA competition (W7 D1 L3), all of those matches bar the recent win in Duisburg against Roma having been played against German hosts. Links and trivia • Wolves have two Spanish players in their squad who have represented Liga clubs – Adama Traoré (Barcelona 2013–14) and Jonny (Celta Vigo 2012–18).