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Roma boss Jose Mourinho says \u201chistory doesn\u2019t win matches\u201d but something has to give in Wednesday\u2019s Europa League final against Sevilla.<\/p>\n
Sevilla, record six-time winners, have never lost a Europa League final, while Mourinho has won all five European finals he has ever been involved in.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at Sevilla and you say \u2018Sevilla wins every final\u2019,\u201d Mourinho told Uefa.com.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t like superstition. It\u2019s a new final. It\u2019s new history.\u201d<\/p>\n
The winners of the final at Budapest\u2019s Puskas Arena will play in next season\u2019s Champions League \u2013 their only hope of doing so. Neither team can finish in the top four of their league, while Sevilla \u2013 11th in La Liga \u2013 could miss out on Europe entirely.<\/p>\n
Sevilla, who won the 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020 finals, were in relegation trouble until they appointed Jose Luis Mendilibar in March.<\/p>\n
The much-travelled 62-year-old has never won a major trophy \u2013 while Mourinho, 60, has won the Champions League with Porto and Inter Milan, league titles and cups in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain, the Uefa Cup\/Europa League with Porto and Manchester United, and last season\u2019s Europa Conference League with Roma.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I know that I could become the first coach to win this competition with three teams? I really don\u2019t care,\u201d said Mourinho. \u201cI think of the happiness that we can give to these people [fans].<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be in this final is something that nobody would have expected at the beginning of the season when you see the incredible, incredible quality of the teams in the Europa League. Barcelona and Arsenal were in this competition and they were kicked out very, very early.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the fact that I am up against Sevilla when I won that first trophy [Porto\u2019s 2003 Uefa Cup win over Celtic] in Seville significant? No, I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019ve been in football for many years.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe people think I\u2019m older than I am. Maybe they look at my white hair and think I\u2019m really old, but not old [enough] to think about closing the circle. No, no, no. You are going to have me, still, for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mendilibar said: \u201cHe\u2019s always the main man and winning things, while I haven\u2019t won so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sevilla midfielder Nemanja Gudelj told UEFA: \u201cIf somebody had told us at the beginning of the season that this would be the case, we wouldn\u2019t really have believed them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMendilibar has to be thanked for that. We\u2019ve improved our overall style of play, we\u2019ve started getting better results and we\u2019ve started playing the way that Sevilla used to play a few years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roma full-back Leonardo Spinazzola is available again after a muscle strain, while forwards Stephan El Shaarawy and Paulo Dybala should be fit too.<\/p>\n
Sevilla forwards Suso and Papu Gomez, who missed the game against Elche, were back training this week.<\/p>\n
Referee Anthony Taylor leads a team of English officials for the game. Michael Oliver is the fourth official and Stuart Attwell is the video assistant referee.<\/p>\n
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