Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season

The match was not boring, even at home to Juventus. Looking at the stats only makes you more convinced of that. Both teams had a lot of shots on goal, not all of them coming from outside the box, but at least it wasn't boring to watch. I don't agree about a comfortable draw, what's comfortable about it? The "away goal" rule has long been abolished, it literally solves nothing

But don't you think that Sevilla is ok with the result? I am not talking about Sevilla conceding that goal in the 97th minute, that was a bad pill they had to swallow in that moment. But if they had been told before the gamer that they could fly home with a 1-1 tie, I assume that they would have been ok with it. Sevilla likes when they are in a promising situation and can play the game at home. This is what they got now. A 0-1 would have been even better of course, but now knowing that they can win by winning normally and not by having to make up for 2 or 3 goals, they can look forward to a game with a yet open result and all the chances they'd like to have.

In essence, yes, they have made sure they can win if they don't make mistakes. But they must realise that the advantage they had throughout the match was just one goal, which proves that Juventus are far from an easy opponent and when they play at home things can change dramatically

That's correct, but I was trying to look at it from another angle. Of course retrospectively Sevilla is disappointed about the last minute equalizer. But if they look at it from their pre-game expectations, the 1-1 is a result they would thankfully have taken without playing the game. Sevilla isn't a team that takes control of the first game when they don't play at home and then try to win it at all cost. It has been their strategy for a long time to preserve a promising initial position for the second game. A win would have been a lot more than they were hoping for realistically, but now with the draw it is the game they love to play.