The Valencia vs Sevilla UEFA Europa League match is set for Thursday, May 1.
Kick-off time is 8:05 p.m. CET (2:05 p.m. ET) at Mestalla Stadium.
The game will be broadcast on MiTele and Cuatro in Spain.
The game will also air on Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Sports 2 USA, Directv, ESPN Deportes, and Fox Sports GO in the United States.
Live stream is available on Gol Stadium and Fox Soccer 2Go.
Here are two AP columns on the match.
SEVILLA FOCUS
Sevilla coach Unai Emery expects his team to pick itself up quickly after losing its chances of qualifying for the Champions League next season.
Sevilla’s 3-1 loss at Athletic Bilbao saw it slip six points behind the fourth-place Basque club, effectively ending its qualifying options with just three games remaining.
“Thursday will be the next step in improving what needs to be improved,” Emery said after Sunday’s defeat, which ended a five-game winning streak in all competitions. “We need to understand the loss, the team needs to do well the things it did badly (against Athletic).”
Sevilla reached the final in 2006 when it won its second straight UEFA Cup — the former incarnation of the competition.
“We have an advantage on the first result. No doubt of that,” Emery said. “But this is something to be continued.”
BOUNCE BACK KIDS
Valencia will have to just about emulate its Europa League quarterfinal triumph to advance to its first final since winning the UEFA Cup in 2004.
Valencia lost 3-0 at Basel before winning 5-0 at home in the return leg to reach the semifinals, a possibility Sevilla coach Unai Emery is looking to avoid.
“They are capable of reversing this result. They have done it before,” Emery said. “We know that they can because of experience. We need to go there to win.”
Valencia coach Juan Antonio Pizzi remains frustrated that his team is winless in the three games since its rout of Basel.
“(Sevilla) is a team that is very comfortable playing a certain way. We can’t fall into that trap,” said Pizzi, who does not expect to have forward Pablo Alcacer back despite appealing his mystifying red card to UEFA.
“The way UEFA acts, I don’t expect the appeal to succeed.”
