Sevilla vs Juventus Europa League semi-final, LIVE: Coco Lamela blows up the Sánchez Pizjuán en route to the final

Five months before the conquest of the World Cup in Qatar, several of the Argentine champions may have another reason to celebrate this Thursday. Sevilla, with five Albicelestes players in the squad, and Juventus, with Angel Di María and Leandro Paredes, define this Wednesday the semifinal series of the Europa League in southern Spain, after the 1-1 obtained in the first leg. Another 1-1 draw took things to the stretch, where the hosts went ahead by Argentina's Erik 'Coco' Lamela.

Sevilla repeat the initial formation of that equality in Turin, with the Argentine winger Lucas Ocampos already recovered from his muscle problem and Marcos Acuña. Gonzalo Montiel, Alejandro Papu Gómez and Erik Lamela are waiting on the bench.

At Juventus, Massimiliano Allegri placed 'Fideo' Di Maria as a starter, and before the end of the first half he had to send Leandro Paredes to the field due to Nicolo Fagioli's injury.

That first half had Albiceleste prominence. It was first Fideo Di Maria who tried – once again – his typical definition of emboquillada, but did not hit the ball well in the face to face with the Moroccan Bono.

On the other side, the clearest was in the head of Ocampos, who pulled popcorn to connect a center to the first stick and motivated a spectacular save from the Polish Wojciech Szczesny.

The controversy was placed on the Sánchez Pizjuán at the close of the first half, when Oliver Torres chopped the ball on the edge of the area and seemed to have been clearly brought down by the Colombian Cuadrado. Referee Danny Makkelie was not called by VAR to review it, so he sent everyone to the break.

In the complement, Juventus was more spicy. First a header from Bremer kissed the right post and, in the 20th minute, the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, 120 seconds after entering the field, defined by stinging the ball over the Sevilla goalkeeper.

Sevilla's response was not long in coming and also from a player who came from the bench of substitutes. It was Suso who, after a recovery by Marcos Acuña, went to the side with pure amague and took a tremendous left-footed shot to the angle of the Juventus goal for the 1-1.

Inevitably, the definition was lengthened. And there, the Argentine protagonism did not stop. Erik 'Coco' Lamela, another who started as a substitute, hit a header into the race to blow up the fans at the Sánchez Pizjuán, turn the result around and set foot in the final in Budapest, Hungary, on June 3.

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