Sevilla and Liverpool find wilful win
Sevilla FC and Liverpool FC both have a possibility to book their place in a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 when they accommodate in Spain on matchday five.
• Liverpool lead Group E on 8 points and will validate with a win, or with a pull if third-placed FC Spartak Moskva remove during home to bottom side NK Maribor.
• Sevilla, who warranted a 2-2 pull during Anfield on matchday one, are second with 7 points and will validate if they win.
Previous meetings
• Before this season, a clubs’ solitary past confront came in Basel in May 2016, when Sevilla came from a idea down to turn a initial organisation to win a UEFA Europa League – and a UEFA Cup foregoer – for a third unbroken season. Initially it looked like being Liverpool’s night as Daniel Sturridge dismissed them into a 35th-minute lead, though Kevin Gameiro leveled 17 seconds into a second duration and dual successive Coke goals (64, 70) gave Sevilla a fifth delight in a competition.
• The line-ups during St. Jakob-Park on 18 May 2016 were:
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Touré (Benteke 82), Lovren, Moreno, Milner, Can, Lallana (Allen 73), Coutinho, Firmino (Origi 69), Sturridge.
Sevilla: Soria, Rami (Kolodziejczak 78), Escudero, Ferreira, Carriço, Krychowiak, N’Zonzi, Banega (Cristóforo 90+3), Coke, Vitolo, Gameiro (Iborra 89).
Match background
Sevilla
• Sevilla have won both their home games so distant this season. A Wissam Ben Yedder hat-trick cumulative a 3-0 feat over NK Maribor on matchday dual before Spartak were beaten 2-1 in a many new turn of fixtures.
• The Spanish side have won 6 of their final 9 European home matches, losing dual and sketch a other.
• Sevilla suffered their initial home detriment to English visitors when succumbing 3-1 to Manchester City FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League organisation stage. They were 2-1 winners opposite Leicester City FC in final season’s turn of 16 initial leg, though bent out after going down 2-0 away.
• The Andalusian club’s record during home to English teams is W3 D0 L1.
• Last term, Sevilla done it to a turn of 16 for a initial time given 2009/10 – though they have never left serve in a UEFA Champions League era. This is their fifth organisation theatre debate and their third in a row.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga. They knocked out Turkey’s Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir in August’s play-offs, winning a divided initial leg 2-1 before a 2-2 pull in southern Spain.
Liverpool
• Liverpool have mislaid 1-0 on any of their final 3 visits to Spain, many recently going down 1-0 during Villarreal CF in their 2015/16 UEFA Europa League semi-final initial leg. The 3-0 home win in a return is Liverpool’s solitary feat in their final 6 matches opposite Liga opposition.
• The Reds still have a improved win ratio opposite Liga opponents on Spanish dirt than they do during Anfield. Their divided record opposite Spanish clubs is W7 D4 L5, compared with a home record of W5 D7 L5.
• Liverpool were 7-0 winners during Maribor on matchday three, equalling their club-record European divided victory. They have but won only 3 of their final 15 European divided games (D7 L5), carrying drawn 1-1 during Spartak in their initial Group E divided match. Before triumphing during TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in their play-off initial leg, a Merseysiders’ final divided success had been a 1-0 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre win during FC Rubin Kazan on 5 Nov 2015.
• Five-time European champions Liverpool did not take partial in UEFA foe in 2016/17, when they finished fourth in a Premier League. They are aiming to strech a UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for a initial time given 2008/09.
• The Reds warranted their place in a organisation stage – for a tenth time overall – with a 6-3 total play-off feat over Hoffenheim, winning 2-1 away and 4-2 during home.
Coach and actor links
• Alberto Moreno came by a ranks during home-town bar Sevilla, creation 62 first-team outings before fasten Liverpool in 2014.
• Daniel Carriço played in England with Reading FC in 2013; one of his 3 appearances came in a 0-0 home pull with Liverpool in Apr 2013.
• Steven N’Zonzi played in England from 2009 to 2015, with Blackburn Rovers FC and afterwards Stoke City FC. His record in 11 meetings with Liverpool was W2 D3 L6, nonetheless he scored in his many new encounter – a 6-1 home win for Stoke on 24 May 2015.
• Nolito bagged 4 goals in 19 Premier League games for Manchester City FC in 2016/17.
• Jesús Navas was a Manchester City actor between 2013 and 2017, with a record W2 D1 L4 opposite Liverpool. He played in a organisation that kick a Reds on penalties in a 2016 League Cup final.
• Philippe Coutinho had a loan spell with RCD Espanyol in 2012, scoring in a 1-1 pull with Sevilla in his final compare on 13 May 2012.