Sevilla boss Julen Lopetegui labels Manchester United ‘biggest team in the WORLD’

Sevilla manager Julen Lopetegui has hailed Europa League semi-final opponents Manchester United as ‘the largest staff in the world’ forward of their showdown on Sunday.

An 88th-minute winner from Lucas Ocampos sneaked Sevilla over the line in opposition to Wolves in Tuesday’s quarter-final, with Raul Jimenez lacking a first-fifty percent penalty for the Premier League side.  

However, Sevilla – whose history in the Europa League is impressing, owning gained the levels of competition 3 instances in a row from 2014-2016 – will appear up in opposition to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side on Sunday in Cologne, and Lopetegui did not undervalue the scale and achieve of their English opponents. 

Sevilla boss Julen Lopetegui has hailed Manchester United as ‘the largest staff in the world’

Lucas Ocampos broke Wolves’ hearts as he secured Sevilla’s spot in Europa League semis

‘We are going to enjoy in opposition to Manchester United in the next match – they’re the largest staff in the world but we are going to be organized for them,’ Lopetegui advised reporters right after the match.  

‘We’re focused on the next match, in opposition to a prime, historic side, one of the very best in the history of the sport who are in great variety. 

‘We will give our very best as we constantly do. To enjoy in opposition to them will be actually hard, but we’ll go into it believing we can conquer them.’

Sevilla gained the levels of competition in 3 straight yrs from 2014 to 2016, with their last victory coming in opposition to Liverpool in the final four yrs back. 

The LaLiga side also conquer United in the last-sixteen of the Champions League in the 2017-18 period, successful 2-one at Outdated Trafford, so will not deficiency self confidence heading into the last-four clash. 

Sevilla will appear up in opposition to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side right after they conquer FC Copenhagen 

Sevilla surprised Manchester United in the Champions League last-sixteen at Outdated Trafford in 2018

On the late Wolves victory nevertheless, the Sevilla gaffer added: ‘I assume we deserved the earn today. The critical was to chip, chip, chip absent, have tolerance and wait around right up until the appropriate instant. 

‘I am very very pleased of my players simply because we had been in opposition to a very good staff. We desired to have the ball and not make problems simply because they have very quickly forwards.

‘We performed very properly in opposition to a good staff. We had to be very concentrated.’