Defending champions Sevilla face Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk in the additional semi-final fatigued Friday.
Liverpool, who hit aback from 2-0 and 3-1 down to exhausted Borussia 4-3 and advance into the semis 5-4 on aggregate, accept never
played Villarreal before.
Sevilla ousted adolescent Spaniards Athletic Bilbao on penalties in Thursday’s quarter-final in their bid to win a third afterwards Europa League.
The final is set for Basel, Switzerland, on May 18. The winners will get a abode in next season’s Champions League accumulation stages.
Liverpool are the alone best ancillary larboard in the competition, and goals from centre-backs Mamadou Sakho and Dejan Lovren completed one of the abundant Anfield comebacks adjoin Dortmund.
The aboriginal leg will be played in Villareal on April 28, with The Yellow Submarine branch to Merseyside for the acknowledgment leg on May 5.
The Spanish outfit, currently fourth in La Liga, are searching to ability their beginning above European final, afterwards Europa League last-four defeats in 2004 and 2011 and a Champions League semi-final accident in 2006.
In abrupt contrast, Liverpool are attempting to win their ninth above continental trophy, and in the process, draw akin with Sevilla as the competition’s almanac four-time winners.
Villarreal accept not baffled English action in 10 matches, with six draws and four defeats, back assault Liverpool’s city-limits rivals Everton in condoning for the 2005-06 Champions League.
But they will be assured that they can see off the Reds afterwards an accomplished division so far, in which they accept baffled the brand of Real Madrid and Napoli, and fatigued with Barcelona.
“We’ll try and win the home leg, afterwards acceptance an abroad ambition to accomplish it easier. Then we apperceive it will be difficult away,” said club adumbrative and above midfielder Marcos Senna.
“We are blessed with the draw. We did not wish to accommodated Sevilla, we wish to accommodated them in the final.”
Sevilla’s quartet of titles accept all appear in the endure decade, with achievement adjoin Espanyol in 2007 authoritative them just the additional club afterwards Real Madrid to win the antagonism in alternating years.
They backed that achievement up by repeating the accomplishment 11 months ago adjoin Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, and now they accept addition Ukrainian accouterments in Shakhtar continuing in their way.
The achievement over Dnipro put Sevilla into this season’s Champions League, but they angled out in the accumulation stages.
Now alone a fifth Europa League acme would see them acknowledgment to Europe’s arch tournament, as Unai Emery’s men sit seventh in La Liga, 12 credibility abaft Villarreal.
The aboriginal leg will be played in Seville, afore 2009 champions Shakhtar host the additional bold in Lviv. The country’s civilian war has affected them to play abroad from their home city
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