Sevilla beat Inter with De Jong brace to seal sixth Europa League trophy
The Spanish side have been phenomenal in the competition in the 21st century
They've done it again. For the fourth time in the last seven years, Sevilla won the Europa League on Friday as they beat Inter Milan 3-2.
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Sevilla
Bono; Jesús Navas, Koundé, Diego Carlos (Gudelj, 86'), Reguilón; Fernando, Joan Jordán; Suso (Vázquez, 78'), Banega, Ocampos (Munir, 69'); Luuk de Jong (En-Nesyri, 85').
Inter
Handanovic; Godín (Candreva, 90'), De Vrij, Bastoni; D'Ambrosio (Moses, 78'), Barella, Brozovic, Gagliardini (Eriksen, 78'), Young; Lautaro (Alexis, 78'), Lukaku.
Goles
0-1 M. 5 Lukaku, de penalti. 1-1 M. 12 Luuk de Jong. 2-1 M. 34 Luuk de Jong. 2-2 M. 36 Godín. 3-2 Lukaku, en propia puerta.
Árbitro
Danny Makkelie (Países Bajos). TA: Diego Carlos (4') y Banega (45') / Barella (41'), Bastoni (55') y Gagliardini (73').
Incidencias
Rhein Energie Stadion de Colonia (Alemania). A puerta cerrada.
Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring from the penalty spot after five minutes before a Luuk de Jong double turned the tide in the favour of the Spanish side.
Diego Godin leveled things up again to leave the score locked at 2-2 going into the break.
Lukaku missed a good chance to give the Italian side the lead before defender Diego Carlos struck the crucial goal in the 74th minute to seal the win for Sevilla.
Sevilla add to their 2014, 2015 and 2016 successes in the competition, while they also won it twice in its former guise, as the UEFA Cup in 2006 and 2007.
It caps a remarkable first season for Julen Lopetegui in charge of Sevilla.
They finished fourth in La Liga, level on points with third-place Atletico Madrid, so had already sealed their place in next season's Champions League.
Lopetegui will now look to build on that in his second season in Andalusia following disappointing endings with Spain and Real Madrid.
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