A final with pedigree

Sevilla and Inter meet for the first time tonight in a European match (21.00, Movistar Champions League). The occasion will be special. The sixth final of the Europa League for a Sevilla that won in the previous five, and the first European final for the historic Inter in the last decade. A final with a pedigree that presents multiple nuances and that measures the extraordinary XXI century of Seville to the history of a member of the European nobility like Inter. A team resurrected by the hand of Antonio Conte, hard as a rock and with two huge forwards, Lautaro Martínez and Lukaku, who have sown terror in this particular final phase of the Europa League. Lukaku, for example, has scored 33 goals this season, more than all those scored by Sevilla's five forwards this year (Munir, De Jong, En-Nesyri, Chicharito and Dabbur have scored 30).

An Inter that spent 127 million on Lautaro, Lukaku and Eriksen to change a losing dynamic in the last decade. Since the great Inter by Jose Mourinho, who in 2010 lifted the Champions League, the League and the Club World Cup, the Italian giant does not know what it is to lift a title. “Only the winner remains in history. Not the ones who lost, ”says Conte, capable of making Inter second competitive in Italy, to a title match and also capable of not bowing to the wishes of President Steven Zhang. At just 28 years old, the leader runs an Inter owned by his family, who owns an electronics emporium. Conte has not been shy about criticizing the ownership of a club with three European Cups, three other UEFA Cups and 18 Italian leagues. Godín's Inter, very similar in style to the best Atlético de Madrid where the Uruguayan played, winner of two Europa League titles with the Madrid team.

"It is a team designed to win the Champions League," says Julen Lopetegui, close to winning what would be the greatest achievement in his coaching career. The Basque has found in Sevilla, backed by Monchi, his ideal place. His team has not been defeated in the last 20 games (11 wins and nine draws). It is the longest unbeaten streak in the history of a club that has competed in an exemplary manner in this Europa League. His six European titles (five UEFAS and one Super Cup) are the same in number as those of Inter, which emerges as a colossal challenge in their fight for the sixth title of their most beloved competition. "I feel that we are close to doing something big," said Monchi after defeating Roma (2-0) in the round of 16. Then came Wolves (0-1) and Manchester United (2-1), to place themselves on the threshold of glory. In the face of Italian power, the key may lie in the legend that presides under a huge club banner at the entrance to the team's concentration hotel in Düsseldorf: “We are Sevilla”.