2014 UEFA Europa League Final Live ITV4 / 3e

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Sevilla FC (ESP) V SL Benfica (POR)

Final is tonight at 7:45pm

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Their only previous meeting was preliminary round of the 1957/58 European Champion Clubs' Cup, with Sevilla winning the home leg 3-1 before drawing 0-0 in Lisbon.
Sevilla

Sevilla have won both previous European finals they have reached, beating Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup and fellow Spanish side Espanyol in the same competition a year later.
They have failed to win any of their last four matches, losing on three occasions.
Benfica

Benfica have lost their last seven major European finals; they have not won a European trophy since the 1961/62 European Cup.
Their previous European final wins have come in their only two previous finals against Spanish opposition (1961 and 1962 European Cups, v Barcelona and Real Madrid).
The Portuguese champions are winless in three matches - before which they had won 25 of a 28-game unbeaten run - and suffered just a second league defeat of the season when they were beaten 2-1 at Porto at the weekend.


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Dolph Starbeam

I have a feeling the Guttmann curse will finally be broken.

YayaBanana

YayaBanana wrote: »

I have a feeling the Guttmann curse will finally be broken.

Lost all 7 European finals since. Mad

mike65

Its not a curse, its just not being good enough on the night!

Anyway I think Benfica will be freaked out because these johnny foreigners types are easily swayed by suspicion though Sevilla record against Portuguese teams is terrible.

Skylinehead

mike65 wrote: »

Its not a curse, its just not being good enough on the night!

How do you know that's not part of the curse :pac:

Zebra3

Think it's actually TV3 and not 3E it's on.

Lawrence1895

I didn't even know, the match was on tonight :eek:

thelad95

I think it says a lot about the general attitude that the English have towards the Europa League that this game is on ITV 4.

Dolph Starbeam

Is Markovic suspended? I know Uefa we're making a late decision on his yellow card in the last game after the final whistle.

mike65

thelad95 wrote: »

I think it says a lot about the general attitude that the English have towards the Europa League that this game is on ITV 4.

If an English (or Scottish) club were in the final it would be on ITV of course.

klose

YayaBanana wrote: »

Is Markovic suspended? I know Uefa we're making a late decision on his yellow card in the last game after the final whistle.

Yeah he is even though the story was it was meant to be artur sent off instead of markovic but it hasn't been changed. Big loss!

Richard Hillman

thelad95 wrote: »

I think it says a lot about the general attitude that the English have towards the Europa League that this game is on ITV 4.

I think it says a lot about the general attitude that the Irish have towards the Europa League that this game is on TV3

ben.schlomo

Trevor 'wrong player' welch is doing my nut in on commentary.he managed to claim that garay was bombing up the wing a minute ago as opposed to almeida the right back,in spite of the replay after.ruining an otherwise ok game.pity it wasn't on 3e,at least Brian little and Dempsey know who's playing.

Too Tough To Die

The Europa League winners gain a CL spot from next season onwards, i'm right?

If the winners have already qualified through their domestic league, does the place go to the finalists? I wouldn't have thought so. I'm right?

tayto lover

Boring rubbish.
I'd have a EPL game over it any day.

thelad95

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

The Europa League winners gain a CL spot from next season onwards, i'm right?

If the winners have already qualified through their domestic league, does the place go to the finalists? I wouldn't have thought so. I'm right?

No it would go to fifth place in the league of the winning country.

Too Tough To Die

thelad95 wrote: »

No it would go to fifth place in the league of the winning country.

Jesus, 5 places would be a bit excessive. That's a quarter of the league!

thelad95

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Jesus, 5 places would be a bit excessive. That's a quarter of the league!

So 20% of the league vs 25% ? Not much difference really.

klose

Nothing happening in the final third for either team, lima and rodrigo have hardly been mentioned.

bmcc10

Poor game and poor commentary 2 minds weather to mute it or change it, Has Lima touched the ball?

Too Tough To Die

thelad95 wrote: »

So 20% of the league vs 25% ? Not much difference really.

Some would argue 20% is too much.

thelad95

tayto lover wrote: »

Boring rubbish.
I'd have a EPL game over it any day.

Standard isn't great tbh. Both sides lack a cutting edge. 0-0 written all over it . I hope I'm wrong.

ben.schlomo

bmcc10 wrote: »

Poor game and poor commentary 2 minds weather to mute it or change it, Has Lima touched the ball?

he has but Welch calls him Eusebio!!

bmcc10

Penalty? Benfica finally go at Sevilla and there defence is awful

klose

The only insight tv3 have is sayin x player is linked with y premier league club. So boring to listen to.

Vincent Vega

Hmm. I've seen them given....

ben.schlomo

bmcc10 wrote: »

Penalty? Benfica finally go at Sevilla and there defence is awful

theyve been trying to attack but Sevilla are v negative and constantly giving away niggly frees.looked a penalty too.

mike65

Terrible game, so bity.

LuckyLloyd

tayto lover wrote: »

Boring rubbish.
I'd have a EPL game over it any day.

Entertaining contest thus far imo

dirkmeister

With regards the penalty...the boys on ITV are all saying "in my opinion"


Is there any chance they might check to see what does the rule book say???

Or is that a massive grey area?

batistuta9

CURSED

SantryRed

It's typical of any cup final that doesn't get an early goal tbh.

Second half has started lively though, Benfica unlucky not be be one up, great last ditch defending.

tayto lover

The U.21 Final between Man Utd and Chelsea on SS1 is much more exciting.

Some awful officiating.

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

The U.21 Final between Man Utd and Chelsea on SS1 is much more exciting.

Good start to the EL 2nd half.

LuckyLloyd

Cracking contest, pulsating end to end football.

GLaDOS

2nd half has been very entertaining

tayto lover

ScienceNerd wrote: »

2nd half has been very entertaining

Might switch back. First half was very poor.

MonkeyTennis

Raketic sounds like a snare drum with a slight echo

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Both teams must be kicking themselves not to have taken one of their chances yet

brevity

Loving the tackles in this game.

kksaints

How have Benfica not scored yet?

eagle eye

Come on now Sevilla, bring on Gameiro. They need somebody for Rakitic to set up, Bacca has been poor tonight.

tayto lover

2 - 1 to Chelsea. Great game.
Back here now. No goals yet.

keith16

Missed the first 90 mins....was it any good?

eagle eye

tayto lover wrote: »

2 - 1 to Chelsea. Great game.
Back here now. No goals yet.

Who cares about an u-21 game. I actually think its terrible planning, even cheeky to put that on the same night as the Europa League Cup final.

kksaints

keith16 wrote: »

Missed the first 90 mins....was it any good?

1st half was poor, 2nd half was very good. Loads of chances most of them for Benfica. Benfica could have had around 3 penalties.

Johner

What a miss!

klose

Oh bad miss?

eagle eye

eagle eye wrote: »

Come on now Sevilla, bring on Gameiro. They need somebody for Rakitic to set up, Bacca has been poor tonight.

Johner wrote: »

What a miss!

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keith16

kksaints wrote: »

1st half was poor, 2nd half was very good. Loads of chances most of them for Benfica. Benfica could have had around 3 penalties.

Poor old Benfica. You get the feeling they are destined to lose this game.