Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 5
By: Dan | May 17th, 2009The last UEFA Cup final is going to be an event that launches a thousand lists, so no points for originality here. There are five days until this year’s final, so I’d like to spend them counting down my top five UEFA Cup finals.
2006-2007 Sevilla 2 (3) – Espanyol 2 (1)
A stand out among the modern finals featuring attacking play of the highest caliber. Sevilla were the defending champions, the darlings of Europe and very much involved in the La Liga title race. Espanyol, a talented but inconsistent mid-table side, shone in the UEFA Cup, where they quietly advanced to the semi finals and demolished a favored Werder Bremen.
This game, “an instant classic,” really was a cliché writer’s dream. “Both teams really went for it.” “They just couldn’t be seperated.” “A brave Espanyol team deserved better.” And so on.
Penalties, for once, actually did heighten the drama instead of cutting it off at the knees. A true “celebration of football.”
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Definitely a classic, I get goosebumps every time I see the highlights. What a match!
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