“No one from the club dedicated even a thousand seconds to the derby”

The vice president of Seville, Jose Maria del Nido Carrascoconsiders that the Sevilla team has an “appointment with history” in the second leg of the Europa League semifinals that will be played next Thursday at Sánchez Pizjuán against the Italian Juventus, where they have to win with a draw to one to go

The Sevilla vice-president reflected in the club’s media on the importance of this match in which the team is “very invested and aware” and the players “with blood in their eyes and very mentalized, like those fans” that will fill the stadium as in the quarterfinals of this competition against the English Manchester United.

“This year, playing relegation, everyone is talking about the Europa League as a problem. We did not give up fighting for it and, although you may think that this is not the year, we are in the semifinals. It feels fans. is theirs and everyone knows we can win it every year we play it. People feel they are ours”, he asserted.

In this sense, he recalled that when they lost 2-0 at Old Trafford and scored the first goal, “Manchester showed respect to Sevilla” because “people know what Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán and those magical night they live”, although he specified that “Thursday’s rival has a great specific weight: Juventus has won 71 titles in its history”, he recalled.

“We have nothing to save and we have to go for the game from the first minute, with the tension of having to win to enter the final. I know what our fans are and the hell that will be created here”, considered. del Nido, pointing out that the Italian team is “the favorite” and pointed out that “no one from the club is devoting even a thousandth of a second to the derby” in the league next Sunday against Betis and that “that will play on Friday”.

So much fun in Mendilibar

Regarding Sevilla coach José Luis Mendilíbar, he said that this is not the time to talk about the future although they are “very happy with him” because his “numbers are indisputable” after being fired the “Manchester United 5-2 and have a tie. tomorrow at ‘Juve'”.

“When we had to make the decision to fire (Jorge) Sampaoli, we sat down with José Luis and it was clear to all of us that we couldn’t think beyond June 4. That we had to go along our paths to fight for Europa League and get out of the situation so uncomfortable in which the team was in LaLiga”, explained the leader.