Even the experienced Jose Mourinho could not stop the exclusive title of the Sevilla Cup

"History won't let you win the game."

Before this Europa League final, Mourinho gave an official interview to UEFA, and when reporters mentioned his 100% winning percentage in the European final, Mourinho turned Sevilla FC back.

After all, Roma's rival Sevilla has a richer heritage in this tournament.

A six-time winner, this aura has allowed Sevilla FC to stand on the final floor in this not very smooth season, but for Mourinho it is a brand new final, so history will not help.

But there's no denying that Jose Mourinho and Roma will have a confident opponent.

Of course, Mourinho is more experienced in this occasion than Mendiliba, who reached the final for the first time, and he knows exactly how to play in the final, such as releasing a smoke bomb before releasing the gun.

At the pre-match press conference, after reporters had asked questions about Sevilla and Mourinho himself, Dybala was finally mentioned, and Mourinho jokingly revealed:

'Dybala could probably play 20-30 minutes.'

However, after the starting list was released, Dybala's name appeared in the starting lineup. Obviously, this means that Dybala can't just play 20-30 minutes and then be substituted, he will play a bigger role on the pitch.

Especially under the cover and help of Abraham:

After the start of the game, Roma were clearly the more capable of attacking the team.

The center plays the role of fulcrum, the people around him play their skills in a large space, and the third person runs and attacks, but on Sevilla's side, the center N-Nesri is extremely restricted by the Roma central defender:

Looking back at Abraham and Dybala, he was relaxed when he received the ball:

This allows Abraham to even pull the big show technique on the wing, even if the show fails, it will not immediately become Sevilla's defensive attack:

What stands out here is that Baday, an incompetent centre-back, could not cope calmly in such a fateful final:

On the other hand, his partner Goodley is slightly better than Bardy, but he is inevitably not accurate enough in midfield:

So in the 11th minute of the game, Roma moved through a long pass, attacked from the right rib to the goal, and formed an inverted triangle position, but Spinazzola's shot was saved:

So while Roma can move forward steadily again and again, Sevilla have always struggled to find a way forward, and even if Ocampos can enter the box, this simple cross cannot threaten Roma's back:

In this case, as long as Roma's most important offensive and defensive ends remain online, the situation will be on their side, as in the 33rd minute, when central defender Gianluka Mancini broke the ball and directly helped the team to attack forward, completing a very efficient attacking and defensive switch:

One minute later, Roma scored:

As can be seen from the replay, at the moment when the ball may be converted, Baday has a clear misjudgment of the situation around him, and he focuses most of his attention on Abraham, and does not have enough caution against Dybala with Keylor on the side, which gives Dybala plenty of room for the first stop and subsequent shots:

After conceding the goal, Sevilla FC began to press and the attack became easier:

In the process, however, Rome revealed its problems.

In the formation, Mourinho has selected a large number of big players in the middle of the central midfield, three central defenders and two backs are more than 185cm tall, which is not his original in Rome, and he has had a similar style and trend since his career.

The advantage of such a formation, of course, is that it has more advantages in compressing space and physical confrontation, but the vastness of the court cannot be occupied by just physique, and big players can try their best to cover space when they have enough physical fitness, hard to pull out their flexibility, and once they reach the critical point, it is inevitable to expose the gap, like this:

Of course, Brian Hill and Oliver Torres are not up to par at this point, but the ability to get in and out of the big man already speaks to Roma's tactical problems.

What's more, two minutes later, Rakitic, who is capable of online, grabbed Roma's problem and hit the goal:

The difference between these two offensive performances allowed Mendiliba to see a way to improve his team's offensive performance, so after the break, he replaced Brian Hill and Oliver Torres with Lamela and Suso, which meant that Sevilla's ability to control the situation was at its highest.

Although they don't have the physical strength of young people, technique and awareness can make up for it, and Sevilla's advantage will only become more pronounced as Roma's big men lose their fitness under mobilization.

So as soon as they came back in the second half, with the increase in manpower, Sevilla's attack immediately went online, and it was no longer the inefficient appearance of the first half:

On the Roman side, such a formation, the shortcomings are very clear, there is no option to make up for it at the back level, and the only solution is to use the power of the offensive end to contain and cover.

To put it bluntly, it is to surround Wei and save Zhao.

If the attacking end can continue to play counter-attacks, even in front of the goal, Sevilla will be forced to go back and forth, so that Roma's own passive situation in the central midfield will naturally be alleviated.

This was promising, because compared to the pressure that Roma gave to the Sevilla striker, Sevilla did not put much pressure on the Roma striker, and the treatment of the two sides was very clear in this ball switch:

Baday didn't have the guts to step forward to put pressure on Abraham, but even in this case, Abraham didn't try to get the ball more, and every time the ball reached his feet, he always chose to pass it back to his teammates at the first time, thus failing to take full advantage of Sevilla's central defender's problems.

So in the 55th minute, Sevilla established an advantage on the perimeter, giving Keylor Keylor a one-on-one space with Spanazzola and sending in a key cross:

The focus of the Roman formation is on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and once the two ends are dropped, the situation will change immediately.

They are not like Sevilla, even if the backfield is tight, with Rakitic, Fernando and others, at least there will be no problems on the outside of the defensive line, once the Roma striker cannot play, the pressure begins to pour, and the problem of big players in the central midfield will appear, and it will become more serious over time.

At this time, Dybala could not hold on and was replaced by Wijnaldum, who never showed much, and Abraham's performance had degenerated into this:

So in the 70-minute period, Tammy Abraham was also replaced by Belotti, who cannot be said not to work hard, but his ability is really limited and he cannot move Sevilla's defense.

The striker line declined, and when it came to fighting for midfield and technique, the Spanish team would no longer be afraid of the physically superior Roma, so in the second half, Roma could only threaten from set-pieces:

Only in the first half of overtime was the offense not bad:

On the contrary, Seville not only besieged Rome in various forms such as crosses and long-range shots:

Ocampos is just a little away from hitting the penalty of the Roma centre-back:

So from this point of view, Roma can hold out until the penalty shootout in a bad situation, which is already a very resilient performance, but it is not realistic to expect them to play more on this basis.

From a technical point of view, although the penalty shootout is closely related to luck, whoever has more spare power will be able to make more shaking and fake movements on the penalty spot, and who will be able to ensure the quality of his shots as much as possible.

Thus, Seville reached its glory again.

Looking back, it was certainly a very glued game, but there were still divisions.

Roma's method of attacking opponents is to create pressure on Sevilla FC through instantaneous and continuous high-intensity, just like the goal round, Gianluca Mancini's upper tackle and Dybala's handling of the ball, they need to give 120% of their strength in an instant, and to maintain the advantage in the game, they need to always be one head higher than their opponents in intensity.

However, everyone is a person with two shoulders and a head, and always running, carrying and working harder than the opponent is something that the starter cannot do in a long 90 minutes, which requires the manager to maintain this intensity through substitution.

Rome lost precisely here.

Dybala had the ability and contribution, but could not play the whole game, however Wijnaldum, who replaced him, did not perform well; Abraham was incapable but could be a sapper , but his replacement Beloti did not perform well.

Badai did not perform well when he was physically fit, and there were already such mistakes in overtime:

Rome can't catch it, then naturally it is Rome's problem in the back hand.

If you can't maintain the strength with the back hand, then Mourinho's tendency to put on a big player in the midfield will show signs of backlash, which will be made even more deadly when it comes to the Spanish team.

In the league, Roma may collapse for 90 minutes, but in the final, the players are willing to burn themselves, which allows Roma to survive 90 minutes, 120 minutes until the penalty shootout.

But as we said, if you want to play a good penalty shootout, it is not all about luck, but also physical support.

From this point of view, Sevilla FC is indeed the more consistent side.

Although there were natural flaws in the back line, although they conceded a goal first, they used their technique and awareness to counter and equalise, putting themselves on the high ground after Roma's strength dropped.

So at the end of the game, on the contrary, Sevilla FC played better and better, closer and closer to the goal, and there were also many veterans, and when Roma could not hold on, Sevilla could still persevere.

It was this tiny difference that gave them a small advantage on penalties that ultimately determined the title of champion.

Sevilla Cup, you can't do it if you don't convince.