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Mourinho losing gives me a sense of jubilation that cannot truly be described. Losing his first ever European final playing in such a dour and negative way, against a manager who’d never won a top-flight honour before, makes it all the more sweeter.

Huge congratulations to Sevilla for a 7th Europa League triumph. Some teams just have an aura in certain competitions. They frequently seem to find a way to take this trophy home.
 
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BrunelGunner said:
Mourinho losing gives me a sense of jubilation that cannot truly be described. Losing his first ever European final playing in such a dour and negative way, against a manager who’d never won a top-flight honour before, makes it all the more sweeter.

Huge congratulations to Sevilla for a 7th Europa League triumph. Some teams just have an aura in certain competitions. They frequently seem to find a way to take this trophy home.
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That's strange, I thought that he won every final he was in charge of, judging by the discourse on here...
 
BrunelGunner said:
Mourinho losing gives me a sense of jubilation that cannot truly be described. Losing his first ever European final playing in such a dour and negative way, against a manager who’d never won a top-flight honour before, makes it all the more sweeter.

Huge congratulations to Sevilla for a 7th Europa League triumph. Some teams just have an aura in certain competitions. They frequently seem to find a way to take this trophy home.
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IMHO the reasons are due to La Liga. Specially the :

1. average technical competence of teams in that league
is quite high

2. EL participants are not usually involved in a title
fight, nor anything vaguely like the PL top 4 dogfight


so I contend that #1 means the team has what it takes
to deal with all but the very big fish in UEFA land
(who are rarely in the EL) , and #2 means your squad
is unlikely to have been under extreme physical stress
by the business end of the season.


Edit : I could include (courtesy of Roo) the Spurs "factor" . :)
 
The RDBD said:
IMHO the reasons are due to La Liga. Specially the :

1. average technical competence of teams in that league
is quite high

2. EL participants are not usually involved in a title
fight, nor anything vaguely like the PL top 4 dogfight


so I contend that #1 means the team has what it takes
to deal with all but the very big fish in UEFA land
(who are rarely in the EL) , and #2 means your squad
is unlikely to have been under extreme physical stress
by the business end of the season.


Edit : I could include (courtesy of Roo) the Spurs "factor" . :)
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It also does have to be said that Sevilla are having a pretty poor season, with them currently sitting in 11th, so they had to go all in on the EL if they wanted European football next season
 
It looks like Gundogan is leaving in the summer to be replaced by Kovacic from Chelsea.
Good player, but can he fill those boots? Scores some massive goals for them.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
It looks like Gundogan is leaving in the summer to be replaced by Kovacic from Chelsea.
Good player, but can he fill those boots? Scores some massive goals for them.
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Not a chance.

It’s a good player replacing a world class one.

It’d be similar to us replacing Kane with say Ollie Watkins, I’ve been a big fan of the latter for years but he’d have no chance replacing Kane outright.
 
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