Sevilla officially ended the season with the Europa League championship after a dramatic 3-2 upstream victory over Inter Milan in the final. This is the 6th time Sevilla has had the honor to step onto the highest podium in the tournament that is considered the second tier of European football.
This record of Sevilla will certainly take a long time to be broken when the teams behind them are three titles, including Inter Milan. In the final at RheinEnergieStadion, Inter Milan team had a good start with Romelu Lukaku’s 11m goal in the 5th minute.
However, the joy of Inter only existed for less than 10 minutes before they let their opponents equalize 1-1. In the 12th minute, Navas crossed the ball to Luuk de Jong to hit the head bravely to score for Sevilla. De Jong’s goal made the match even more attractive for the two teams and resulted in two more goals scored in the first half.
33 minutes, from a free-kick situation after Ahsley Young’s failed pass, Ever Banega created De Jong to head the ball into the far corner to help Sevilla lead a 2-1 reverse.
Less than 2 minutes later, Godin brought the match back to balance from a 2-2 header for Inter Milan. In the half, the match continued to take place with an open posture when both teams still actively played attacking. However, the final will only be decided after a moment few can think about.
Suddenly conceding a goal, Conte immediately made changes when he launched Sanchez, Eriksen and Mosses into the field, but could not change the situation. The final loss of 2-3, Inter Milan pity the opponent to step to the top of glory with a record of 6 times raising the Europa League trophy after 6 appearances.
In the 73th minutes from the hero with the opening goal, Lukaku accidentally helped Sevilla lead 3-2.