Europa League: First semi-finals in Italy for the… lead

A small… Champions League in his semi-finals Europa League! Because the couples in the foursome of Europe’s second-ranked tournament are terribly interesting and too ambiguous.

Juventus-Seville and Roma-Bayer Leverkusentherefore, the first two semi-finals, with the Italians looking for the result that will give them a lead in qualifying for the final, which may turn into… a civil war.

At the “Allianz Stadium” (22:00, Cosmote Sport), the promoted Juventus host Sevilla, who are not scary but in the Europa League they are especially to be reckoned with, since we are talking about the competition that has conquered more times than any other! Four of their previous meetings, all in the Champions League (seasons 2015-16 and 2016-17). At 2-1-1 in favor of Juventus the tradition and at 1-1-0 in Turin.

THE Juventus remain unbeaten at home in the Europa League with a record of 5-7-0, keeping a clean sheet in 6 of them. THE Seville it has 6 wins in its last as many games in the competition against Italian teams and all of them were in the knockout phase. At the same time, the Andalusians won the trophy the last four times they reached the semi-finals (2014, 2015, 2016, 2020).

De Cillio, Bremer are absent for Juventus, while Marcao, Jordan, Suso are absent for Sevilla.

Possible lineups:

Juventus (Max Allegri): Sezni – Danilo, Bonucci, Sandro – Cuadrado, Fazoli, Locatelli, Rabiot, Kostic – Di Maria, Vlahovic.

Seville (Jose Luis Mendilibar): Bono – Navas, Bande, Gudely, Acuña – Fernando, Rakitic – Ocampos, Oliver Torres, Hill – En Nesiri

ROME – LEVERCUZEN

In the “Olimpico” at the same time (22:00, Cosmote Sport), Roma, with its many injury problems, welcomes the excellent and difficult Leverkusen. These are two teams who put purpose into their play but have great quality through the middle and forward to find goals.

The two teams have met four times in European competition and there is absolute balance. From one win for Roma, Leverkusen and two draws, while 19 goals have been scored in these four matches! The coach of Roma, Jose Mourinho had a footballer in the three years 2010-13 at Real Madrid, the coach of Leverkusen, Xabi Alonso.

THE Leverkusen has just one win in the last 10 matches against Italian teams, having a record of 1-2-7. Overall he has a record of 5-5-13 against them, while in 14/15 most recently he conceded a goal! THE Roma won the Europa Conference League last season, while looking for the trophy again this year to participate in the Europa League next year.

Mourinho does not count on Karsdorp, Smalling, Llorente, Koumboula, El Saarawi, Solbakken, while Wijnaldum, Dybala are doubtful. For his part, Xabi Alonso does not have Bellarabi, Sinkhraffen, Schick, Lunev and Ebaba at his disposal.

Possible lineups:

Roma (Jose Mourinho): Rui Patricio – Mancini, Cristante, Ibanez – Zalevsky, Matic, Bove, Spinazola – Pellegrini – Belotti, Abraham.

Leverkusen (Xabi Alonso): Hratetski – Tapsoba, Ta, Hincapier – Fribong, Andrich, Palacios, Bakker – Diaby, Wirtz, Adli.