José Luis Mendilibar caught Sevilla two points from the relegation places and has made them, as well as having saved them, the Europa League champion, the club’s seventh. All the literature that surrounds this objective fact comes to nothing with the most direct consequence of the new title that will shine in the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán showcases: Sevilla will play the next Champions League and will be one of the seeded teams in the group stage draw
The presence of those from Nervión in the maximum continental competition next season will be the fourth in a row. The three previous ones came with the classification through the League, in addition to the triumph of the Europa League in Cologne in the first one, and this one has come through another title. This means that Sevilla is one of the members of hype 1, a hype that is practically fully confirmed.
Manchester City, Bayern Munich, PSG, Benfica and Napoli, in addition to Barcelona, with whom they could not coincide in any way because they are from the same country, are the rivals that accompany Sevilla in pot 1 and are avoided. One position remains to be decided and it depends on the Champions League final. If Inter wins, the Italians cannot be Sevilla’s rivals either, while if City wins, the team that would enter pot 1 and avoid would be Feyenoord.
This, a priori, should lead to a more conducive group for Sevilla than the one they had this season, for example, when they were drawn alongside City and Dortmund, as well as Copenhagen. They could only be better than the Danes and that led to a third place with which they fell to the Europa League. The rest. it’s already history
