Mourinho from Roma: “History makes Sevilla the favorite”

Club coach Rome, Jose Mourinho, dosigned before the final Europa League (European League) against Sevilla that “history makes the Spanish team the favourites”, the six-time champions of the competition, and that this “must be respected”, but he assured that “when the game starts”, his players will not “think about anything” and, although they are young, they are not “‘little angels'” will not even go outside and play like that” in Budapest.

The Rome and Seville play the final european league at 14:00 hours (Panama time).

He Portuguese technician said this Tuesday that his Argentine striker Paolo Dybala, star of The Rome and freshly recovered from the injury, “he was there for 20-30 minutes”, he made the statement laughing, when asked by the journalist, and when he had already stood up and walked a few meters to leave the room.

Given the fact that Sevilla’s players are a group that is more expert in the finals, he insisted that “history is not reflected on the field” and that his team “is in this final because it deserves it”, and evaluated the successful path of the Sevilla association, with an indication that he has “great respect” for his colleague Jose Luis “Mendilibar”.

“They have history and experience that we lack, for Sevilla it was almost normal to play in the final European leaguewhile for Rome and our fans is something extraordinary, magnificent and an unforgettable experience,” declared Mourinho, although he qualified that, from his journey in the tournament and from the work of the last few days, they know that “they are in a position to challenge it. trophy” and “Now it’s up to the players to try and make history.”

Come to Budapest, He recalled, they played “fourteen games” and it was “a very long journey and on a different path than that rival, who arrived after “Champions”and added: “It’s clear that we deserve to be here after everything we’ve been through and now the moment we’ve all been waiting for is coming.”

The Portuguese coach emphasized that they prepared well for this event, despite the fact that in the last two months they played “a lot of games” and suffered injuries and “didn’t have much time to train, it was more about surviving from one game to the next and doing the best possible,” but he doesn’t believe his players have suffered any “pressure” over the past two days.

Asked if the club Sevilla could be the favorite in history, and his because of his financial power, he said that “it is interesting because, with the high-level players that Sevilla have and if Roma’s budget is bigger”, it could happen that footballers of the stature that rival has “they’re not the best paid”, something he doesn’t believe is “so”.

“We have kids who played in the B team in the past and they have players like that Lamela, Montiel or En-Nesyri”, he showed Mourinho, who once again praised the coach of the Andalusian team and asserted that his “experience” in the finals is the fact that he “had more opportunities than Mendilibar to play in Europe, but both” are “of the same generation, with the same years of experience and the same old hairstyle”.

“The same thing happens with the players. You can see that they have more experience, years and finals, but mine do not come without anything, we work together for two years, 29 European matches in those two years and tomorrow will be number 30. We are not little angels that we will go out like this tomorrow” on the field, he stressed.

As for the comments of the Madrid press about the fact that it is an advantage Rome is to have him on the bench, the Portuguese emphasized that he “loves it Madrid and also his press, it was an experience,” and said that “imagine what” his “relationship with Real Madrid, with his fans and as a club, but the coach doesn’t go out on the field, he works a lot before, but not necessarily during the game”.

“Our work is already done, for the game we have to try to help as much as we can, but now it’s up to the players to try to make history. There are two great teams, 26 great players, they are all first-class professionals and I respect Seville. Their footballers have experience and a lot of quality, they have a lot of options, but they (alluding to those journalistic comments) don’t even know what my team is capable of doing as a group,” he asserted.