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PIRAEUS, Greece: Manchester City won the UEFA Super Cup for the first time on Wednesday but needed penalties to beat Sevilla after a 1-1 draw in Athens. Youssef En-Nesyri’s towering first-half header gave the Spaniards the lead. European champions City were far from their slick best, but hit back to force the game to penalties through Cole Palmer’s header.
Sevilla midfielder Nemanja Gudelj believes his side would have found a winning third goal in last week’s 2-2 Europa League quarter-final first-leg draw with Manchester United if the match was played for an extra five minutes.
O ne morning in early March, a bunch of flowers were delivered to Sevilla’s Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium. Addressed to goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic, they had come from supporters at PSV Eindhoven, a card among the red and white carnations wishing him well and apologising on behalf of fans. “Dear Mister Dmitrovic,” it began, before closing with best wishes for the rest of the competition, which takes him to Old Trafford on Thursday night. “It’s a nice touch,” he says; it will also be different this time, he’s sure.
The 22-year-old Juventus forward has not played because of a groin injury since the 4-3 defeat to Benfica which knocked the Italians out of the Champions League at the end of last month, prompting speculation that he might be left out of the squd.
Erling Haaland scored another brace to take his Champions League tally to 25 goals as Manchester City went top of Group G with a comfortable 4-0 win over Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. The 22-year-old gave Pep Guardiola’s side the lead with just 20 minutes on the clock, as he latched onto a Kevin De Bruyne cut-back and scored an easy tap-in beyond Yassine Bounou to notch his seventh goal from inside the six-yard box this term.
Andriy Yarmolenko climbed off the bench to sink Sevilla as West Ham prolonged their European adventure with a dramatic extra-time win.
West Ham will be wary of a familiar foe when they travel to Sevilla in the last-16 of the Europa League.