Sevilla steeled for Manchester United visit
Sevilla FC have never won a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 tie and could find improving on that record a high sequence opposite Manchester United FC.
• The Spanish side finished second in Group E and, with Vincenzo Montella carrying transposed Eduardo Berizzo as manager in December, will now demeanour to make it by to a quarter-finals during a fourth attempt.
• Manchester United, a Group A winners, are during this theatre for a initial time given 2013/14 though have copiousness of means for certainty carrying mislaid usually once in their final 8 visits to Spain.
Match background
Sevilla
• The Spanish side have mislaid all 3 of their prior turn of 16 ties. In 200708 they were beaten 3-2 on penalties by Fenerbahçe SK after a 5-5 total pull (2-3 away, 3-2 home); dual years after they mislaid 3-2 over dual legs opposite PFC CSKA Moskva (1-1 away, 1-2 home) and they mislaid 3-2 to Leicester City FC 12 months ago (2-1 home, 0-2 away).
• Sevilla picked adult 7 points during home in Group E. A Wissam Ben Yedder hat-trick cumulative a 3-0 feat over NK Maribor on matchday dual before FC Spartak Moskva were beaten 2-1. That record looked underneath hazard when Liverpool FC raced into a three-goal half-time lead on matchday five, though Sevilla staged a conspicuous fightback to snatch a 3-3 draw.
• The Spanish bar have won 6 of their final 9 European home matches, losing one and sketch a other two, opposite Liverpool and Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir in this season’s play-offs (2-2).
• Sevilla suffered their first, and only, 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 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 D1 L1.
• Sevilla’s record in two-legged knockout ties opposite Premier League sides is W1 L1. Aside from final season’s improved by Leicester, they kick Tottenham Hotspur FC 4-3 on total in a quarter-finals of their winning 2006/07 UEFA Cup debate (2-1 home, 2-2 away).
Manchester United
• This is a English club’s tenth turn of 16 tie (W6 L3), and their initial given confronting Olympiacos FC in 2013/14 (0-2 away, 3-0 home). Having mislaid their initial dual last-16 contests, United have won all though one of a many new seven.
• The Manchester outfit have won usually dual of their 9 divided games during this theatre (D4 L3).
• United’s record in two-legged ties opposite Spanish clubs is W6 L7.
• This is United’s eighth European compare this tenure and their second opposite Spanish opposition, their debate carrying started with a 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid CF in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August. That finished United’s 11-game dominant run (W8 D3) given a 2-1 annulment during Fenerbahçe SK on matchday 4 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. The improved in Istanbul had been their fifth in 9 European fixtures.
• The Red Devils won all though one of their 6 Group A games; divided from home they beat CSKA Moskva 4-1 on matchday dual before a 1-0 success during SL Benfica in a third turn of fixtures. The solitary cut was their 1-0 matchday 5 retreat during FC Basel 1893.
• Those waste to Madrid and Basel are United’s usually reverses in their final 18 European matches, home and divided (W13 D3). The Basel detriment finished a seven-game dominant European divided record (W5 D2) given that reversal during Fenerbahçe.
• José Mourinho’s side got a improved of Spanish antithesis in final season’s UEFA Europa League semi-finals, winning 1-0 during RC Celta de Vigo in a initial leg interjection to a Marcus Rashford free-kick. They went by 2-1 on total with a 1-1 home draw, Marouane Fellaini scoring for United.
• That UEFA Super Cup improved by Madrid means United have now won dual of their final 11 matches opposite Spanish clubs, with 4 draws and 5 defeats in that time. The Red Devils have also won 5 of their final 22 matches with Liga antithesis (D9 L8).
• United have played 50 times opposite Liga clubs, with a record W13 D20 L17. Away their record is W3 D10 L10.
• United have contested 3 finals with Spanish sides – all opposite FC Barcelona. They were 2-1 winners in a 1990/91 European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Rotterdam though mislaid 2-0 in 2008/09 in Rome and 3-1 in London in 2010/11, both in a UEFA Champions League.
• Mourinho’s charges finished a clean brush of European trophies for a club with feat in final season’s UEFA Europa League. The win opposite AFC Ajax in Stockholm combined to their European Cup triumphs in 1968, 1999 and 2008 and their 1991 European Cup Winners’ Cup success.
Coach and actor links
• Mourinho won 7 of his 8 fixtures opposite Sevilla while manager of Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013, losing a other. Madrid scored 23 goals in those 8 fixtures, surrender six.
• Have played in Spain:
David de Gea (Club Atlético de Madrid 2008–11)
Eric Bailly (RCD Espanyol 2013–15, Villarreal CF 2015–16)
Ander Herrera (Real Zaragoza 2008–11, Athletic Club 2011–14)
Juan Mata (Real Madrid Castilla 2006/07, Valencia CF 2007–11)
Zlatan Ibrahimović (FC Barcelona 2009/10)
• De Gea did not record a win in 4 fixtures opposite Sevilla while during Atlético (D1 L3).
• Bailly’s record opposite Sevilla with Villarreal was W1 L4; he was sent off in Sevilla’s 2-1 win in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 second leg (5-2 aggregate).
• Herrera faced Sevilla 9 times with Zaragoza and Athletic Club (W5 D1 L3), scoring once.
• Mata scored 3 goals in 9 matches opposite Sevilla while a Valencia actor (W3 D1 L5).
• Ibrahimović got dual goals in 4 games opposite Sevilla with Barcelona (W2 L2).
• Have played in England:
Steven N’Zonzi (Blackburn Rovers FC 2009–12, Stoke City FC 2012–15)
Jesús Navas (Manchester City FC 2013–17)
Nolito (Manchester City FC 2016/17)
Daniel Carriço (Reading FC 2013)
• N’Zonzi kick United once in 9 attempts with Blackburn and Stoke (D2 L6).
• Have played together:
Luis Muriel Sergio Romero (UC Sampdoria 2015)
• International team-mates:
Nolito, Sergio Rico Ander Herrera, David de Gea, Juan Mata (Spain)
Gabriel Mercado, Nico Pareja, Éver Banega, JoaquÃn Correa, Guido Pizarro Sergio Romero, Marcos Rojo (Argentina)
Sébastien Corchia, Steven N’Zonzi Paul Pogba (France)