Jose Mourinho: The Roma manager’s post-match comments should be interesting although he may retreat into “if I speak I am in in big trouble” mode. No doubt he’ll feel aggrieved but few neutrals will begrudge Sevilla their victory given the aggressive, in-your-face petulance of Roma’s players, their staff and their manager. Without wanting to go all “Won’t somebody think of the children?”, they disgraced themselves this evening and may well have won if they had put as much effort into playing football as they did badgering the referee, his assistants and the fourth official. That final penalty: Gonzalo Montiel hit the right upright with his spot-kick but in the VAR bunker, Stuart Attwell noticed that Roma goalkeeper Rui Patricio had encroached and ordered a re-take. Montiel made no mistake second time around and for the second time this season, secured a major trophy with a decisive spot-kick. Sevilla win the Europa League ... Sevilla’s players celebrate wildly as the players of Roma slump to the turf in despair. On the touchline, Jose Mourinho hugs his opposite number, Jose Luis Mendilibar, who has helped save Sevilla from relegation and steered them to victory in the Europa League. SEVILLA ARE CHAMPIONS!!! Montiel scores at the second time of asking and Sevilla are Europa League champions for the seventh time!!! Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 3-1 Roma Gonzalo Montiel scored the winner in the World Cup final shoot-out but misses here. He hits the right post .. but Patricio came off his line and it will be taken again!!!! Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 3-1 Roma Roger Ibanez hits the post and Roma are in big, big trouble. Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 3-1 Roma Rakitic scores into the bottom left-hand corner. Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 2-1 Roma Gianlucca Mancini misses, shooting down the middle to see his effort saved by the legs of Bono. Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 2-1 Roma Erik Lamela whips his into the bottom corner, evading the outstretched arm of Rui Patricio. Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 1-1 Roma Cristante smashes the ball past Bono, who went the right way. Penalty shoot-out: Sevilla 1-0 Roma Ocampos fires Sevilla ahead, rolling the ball down the centre as Patricio dives to his left. Penalty shoot-out: Goalkeepers Bono and Rui PAtricio get some late “advice” from Anthony Taylor and it looks like Sevilla will go first. Luis Ocampos has ball in hand. Full time: Sevilla 1-1 Roma (aet) Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! A scrappy, bad-tempered, often diabolical spectacle draws to a merciful close and will be settled by a penalty shoot-out. Who’s your money on? ET30+10: Roma have a fre-kick wide on the right, in line with the edge of the penalty area. Zelewski’s cross is headed out for a corner before Cristante can get his head to it. From the set-piece, Chris Smalling’s looping header hits the bar!!! ET30+9: A Roma free-kick is punched away by Bono and Ocampos gets booked for a foul on somebody-or-other. ET30+7: Sevilla double-substitution: Gudelj comes off and is replaced by the Brazilian, Marcao. Fernando is replaced byJordan, who has already been booked for misbehaving on the bench earlier in the game. ET30+5: Roma have an extremely half-hearted penalty appeal turned down and there’s another break in play as Sevilla defender Gudelj receives treatmewnt in his own penalty area. ET30+2: If ever there was an argument for scrapping extra time and going straight to penalties, this is it. To be honest, if ever there was an argument for scrapping football matches altogether and going straight to penalties, this final has been it. The pitch at the Puskas Arena currently looks like the set of John Wick, such is the number of bodies strewn around it. ET30: Roma substitution: Edoardo Bove replaces Matic. We’ll have six minutes of added time at the end of extra time. ET29: Matic goes to ground again as Jose Mourinho gets into a blazing row on the touchline with fourth official Michael Oliver and several Sevilla substitutes. The Roma manager finally gets booked. ET27: Matic dawdles towards the touchline before coming back on, while Anthony Taylor pointedly points towards his watch to signify that he’ll be adding on time. ET26: Roma midfielder Nemanja Matic goes to ground, lying on his back as a physio and Chris Smalling try to alleviate the symptoms of his cramp. ET24: Lamela drives forward through the centre but his shot is weak and blocked by Smalling. ET22: Following a lengthy break in play so Ibanez could receive treatment for a cut lip, the game resumes. Both teams seem to have settled for spot-kicks but as Sheffield Wednesday showed with their late, late winner in the closing seconds of extra time in Monday’s League One play-off, it ain’t over til it’s over. ET18: Lamela scurries forward but is penalised for illegal use of the elbow as he tried to shrug off Roger Ibanez, who seemed to to be the aggressor and clattered into him from behind. Lamela gets booked and feels very aggrieved. Second half: Sevilla 1-1 Roma ET16: Into the final 15 minutes of a game that seems destined to end in a penalty shoot-out we go. Can anyone find a winner? Sevilla win another corner and the ball finds its way to Nemanja Gudelj outside the Roma penalty area. He pulls his low, long-range effort wide of the left upright. Half-time in extra time: Sevilla 1-1 Roma Peep! Anthony Taylor signals for the turnaround and the players of both sides adjourn to the touchline for some drinks, a huddle and another pep talk. Jose Mourinho looks very animated indeed. ET14: Penalised for trying to pull the shirt off the back of Karim Rekik, who is on for Alex Telles, Nicola Zelewski becomes the sixth Roma player to be booked. At least two, if not three or four of their coaching staff have also had their names taken. ET12: THe players of both teams look shattered, each one desperate not to be the one who makes a mistake that costs their side the game. Ocampos sends a cross from the right touchline trying to pick out En-Nesyri but wildly overhits his delivery. ET9: Matic is dragged to the ground by Suso, who grabs a fistful of the front of the midfielder’s shirt to haul him down. Free-kick for Roma. ET7: Rakitic and Lamela combine through the centre for Sevilla but are forced to retreat after running into traffic. Lamela plays the ball wide to Telles and the Spanish side continue to press and probe. ET7: Rakitic slides in to put the ball out for a Roma corner, which is headed clear. ET5: Sevilla substitution: Gonzalo Montiel, who scored the winning spot-kick for Argentina in the World Cup final penalty shoot-out comes on for Jesus Navas. ET3: Sevilla defender Alex Telles leaps to head the ball clear of his own six-yard box and immediately goes to ground with cramp. ET2: Sevilla win a free-kick near the halfway line and Jose Mourinho emerges from his technical area to rant and rave at their striker Youssef En-Nesyri, who looks bemused, points repeatedly to one eye and shrugs his shoulders. Extra time: Sevilla 1-1 Roma ET1: Play resumes and Nicola Zelewski is on for Roma in place of right wing-back Zeki Celik. Full time: Sevilla 1-1 Roma Peep! Anthony Taylor draws proceedings to a close, almost certainly sorry he overturned that Sevilla penalty to give himself a bettere chance of getting an early night. He has had to go about his business tonight in the most trying circumstances, getting it in the neck from both teams. A tip of the hat, however, to the players and backroom staff of Roma, who have accumulated – I think – eight yellow cards between them while contesting every single decision that has gone against them. 90+5 min: A poor touch from Erik Lamela allows Chris Smalling to dispossess him with Sevilla on a promising attack. Sevilla regroup, fire off a couple of shots, one from Suso that is parried by Patricio and another that is blocked. On the third attempt, Fernando drags a low dasiy-cutter wide. We’ll have extra time. 90+3 min: Roma win a free-kick deep inside their own half. Rui Patricio gets the ball launched upfield and Sevilla clear their lines. 90+1 min: Another Navas cross from the right. Youssef En-Nesyri rises highest and makes firm contact but sends his header a couple of feet over the bar. 90 min: We’ll have six minutes of added time and here’s hoping we get a winner in that time so we don’t have to sit through another 30 minutes of this bad-tempered, petulant garbage.
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