Sevilla's love affair with the Europa League continued on Thursday night as they came from behind to beat Juventus after extra time and reach the final, where they'll face another Italian side in Roma and Jose Mourinho.
The LaLiga Santander side returned from Turin last week with the feeling that they might have taken a win back to Andalusia with them, but their 1-1 draw in Northern Italy meant they had work to do at a colourful and loud Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan for the second leg.
Juventus were hoping to keep things tight early on but the game was anything but. An end-to-end contest unfolded and it was breathless at times.
Impact
Despite not starting Dusan Vlahovic opened the scoring in the second half after being brought off the bench as he continues to look to be rediscovering some form. Within a minute of coming on, he found himself in space in the box and lifted an effort over Bono in the Sevilla goal.
But Sevilla had two super subs of their own. Erik Lamela and Suso came off the bench and combined to level things up, though the credit goes to the Spaniard as his curled effort was sublime and found the top corner. It only came about from Lamela's pressing though.
Lamela was then the extra-time hero, heading in a powerful effort to give Sevilla the edge.
From there, Juventus came forward with real intent but Federico Chiesa had something of a nightmare when he made it into the hosts' penalty area.
Marcos Acuna was sent off for a second yellow card for timewasting in the 115th minute.
Now Sevilla, although specialists themselves in the competition, will have to face a Roma side coached by Jose Mourinho in the final. He has made it to five European finals in his career, winning every single one of them to date.
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