Sevilla find swell around Maribor success
Sevilla FC mounted one of a UEFA Champions League’s many conspicuous comebacks on matchday five, and that has put them within steer of a place in a turn of 16 as they interpretation their Group E debate during NK Maribor.
• The Spanish side came from 3 goals down during half-time to deliver a 3-3 pull during home to Liverpool FC on 21 November, and now have 8 points – one reduction than a English organisation though dual some-more than third-placed FC Spartak Moskva.
• Maribor, who have dual points and lost 3-0 in Spain on matchday two, will finish fourth.
Previous meetings
• These clubs were interconnected together in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 – a debate that would finish with Sevilla holding a prize aloft, a initial of their record 3 true triumphs in a competition.
• The first leg in Slovenia finished 2-2, Marcos Tavares giving a hosts a 33rd-minute lead. Kevin Gameiro (47) and Federico Fazio (72) incited things around though Maribor surrogate Dare VrÅ¡iÄ leveled 9 mins from time.
• The line-ups during the Stadion Ljudski vrt on 20 Feb 2014 were:
Maribor: Handanović, Filipović, Milec, Mezga (VrÅ¡iÄ 75), Tavares, Mendy (Fajić 86), DerviÅ¡ević (CvijanoviÄ 87), Bohar, Viler, RajÄević, Arghus.
Sevilla: Varas, Carriço, Fazio, Pareja (Iborra 59), Navarro, Diogo Figueiras, Cristóforo (Trochowski 84), Rakitić, Cheryshev (Marin 40), Vitolo, Gameiro.
• Back in Spain, goals possibly side of half-time from José Antonio Reyes (42) and Gameiro (59) took Sevilla through notwithstanding another late VrÅ¡iÄ strike (90+2).
Match background
Maribor
• The Slovenian champions have mislaid usually one of their 3 home games opposite Spanish opposition, pang a 3-0 better by Club Atlético de Madrid in a 1992/93 European Cup Winners’ Cup initial turn initial leg (1-9 aggregate). They hold Villarreal CF 1-1 in a UEFA Intertoto Cup third turn second leg in 2006 (2-3 aggregate).
• Maribor available their heaviest European detriment in their final home match, going down 7-0 opposite Liverpool on matchday three. They had non-stop Group E with a 1-1 pull opposite Spartak.
• That Liverpool annulment halted Maribor’s eight-game dominant home run in Europe (W5 D3). In fact, they have mislaid usually 4 of their final 16 European matches, home and divided (W6 D6).
• However, Maribor have not won any of their 8 home fixtures in a UEFA Champions League proper, organisation theatre to final (D3 L5).
• The Slovene outfit are in a organisation theatre for a third time, carrying formerly competed in 1999/2000 and 2014/15. In that latter organisation coming they drew 1-1 during home to both Sporting Clube de Portugal and Chelsea, and mislaid 1-0 to FC Schalke 04.
• Maribor competent for this season’s UEFA Champions League by winning a sixth Slovenian pretension in 7 seasons in 2016/17. They reached a organisation theatre by overcoming HÅ K Zrinjski of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-2 on total in a second subordinate turn (2-1 away, 1-1 home) and Iceland’s FH Hafnarfjördur in a subsequent turn (1-0 home, 1-0 away). In a play-offs they went down 2-1 during Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC in a initial leg though progressed on divided goals interjection to a 1-0 home success.
Sevilla
• The Spanish side are nonetheless to win divided in Group E, and endured their heaviest UEFA Champions League better in losing 5-1 during Spartak on matchday three. They picked adult a 2-2 pull during Liverpool in their initial game.
• Sevilla have mislaid usually dual of their final 10 divided matches in UEFA foe (W3 D5): at Spartak and a 2-0 retreat during Leicester City FC in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg, that finished a 3-2 total loss.
• Last term, Sevilla done it to a turn of 16 for a initial time given 2009/10 – though they have never left any serve in a UEFA Champions League era. This is their fifth organisation theatre campaign, and third in a row.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga. They kick 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.
• Those 2013/14 matches opposite Maribor were Sevilla’s usually knowledge of Slovenian opponents before this season.
Coach and actor links
• Striker Sunny Omoregie started his career in Spain, personification for CF Palencia in 2012/13 and Mérida AD a following deteriorate in a Tercera División.