Jose Mourinho faces Europa League agony in tense final with Sevilla

Serial winners Sevilla face consistent champion Jose Mourinho and his Roma side in a complex battle for Champions League football in Budapest.

The Spaniards are seeking to win their seventh European trophy while Mourinho bids to lift a sixth piece of Uefa silverware.

Both sides head into the Europa League final in a shaky position in their domestic leagues, so sealing a place in the top tier of European football next term is a massive incentive.

Sevilla won the first Europa League title in 2006 when a 20-year-old kid called Jesus Navas was instrumental in their victory over Middlesbrough in the final.

He was later to spend four successful seasons with Manchester City but returned to Andalusia in 2017 and is captain of his hometown club.

His influence helped Sevilla past Manchester United and Juventus en route to the final and now the question is whether or not they can defeat the Romans, who won the Europa Conference League last season under Mourinho’s command.

Roma beat Dutch champions Feyenoord in the quarter-finals before a defensive masterclass edged them past Bayer Leverkusen in the semis and this looks like being a contest between two contrasting styles of football.

Sevilla will be very much on the front foot, pushing and probing the opposition’s defence while Mourinho’s men are likely to sit back, soak up the pressure and seek to score on the break or from a free-kick or corner.

Just as the three English play-off finals were forced to go to extra-time, this could also be all square after 90 minutes and the draw is worth taking at 2/1 with Coral while 1-1 is 5/1 with Betfred.

Former Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham is 16/5 with William Hill to score at any time for Roma while Youssef En-Nesyri, who hit the net three times for Morocco in last winter’s World Cup, is 9/4 with the same firm to celebrate his 20th club goal of the campaign.

Who will lift the trophy at the Puskas Arena? Sevilla are 10/11 with bet365.

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