FC Sevilla was crowned UEFA Europa League champion on Friday after beating FC Inter with an exciting 3–2 final result.
Dutch striker Luuk de Jong, hero of two goals, as the Spaniards won the tournament for the sixth time record in a historic harvest of this European competition.
Conte’s men hesitate at the last hurdle after Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku gave Italian the lead in the after-a-case terms and Uruguayan defender Diego Godin tied for a headbutt in the first half.
An expired purpose of Brazilian defender Diego Carlos solved the latter in a bicycle kick, allowing Julen Lopetegui’s men to lift the trophy at the Stadion Koln in Cologne, Germany.
It is a well-deserved victory of the club in the League, the top football competition in Spain.
Their 2019/2020 season phenomenal: before the final, FC Sevilla was undefeated in 20 matches in all competitions, winning 8 of their last nine and getting fit at the right time.
Furthermore, their delight in this festival gives them an added advantage; they know how to do their homework because they are the team that has won the highest finals in the same European festival with one hundred percent victories (six out of six).
Antonio Conte’s team, on the other hand, performed creatively and looked as defensively forged as it turned out to be a striker in the game, with only one purpose granted in the last 7 games of the competition.
In fact, this is the first time Inter has conceded at least 3 goals at a European festival for a club final.
The Nerazzurri missed the opportunity to bring a European trophy back to Italy for the first time in 10 years, as no Italian club has won this festival since the UEFA Cup was convened, with Parma in 1999.
The former Chelsea manager, who as a player won the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League with Juventus, did not hide his sadness behind in the match.
“It’s a complicated and balanced game in which, in the middle of the moment, an incident can replace it. We had the opportunity, but instead there was an unfortunate deviation from Romelu, so it has inevitably become very complicated there,” he told Sky Sport Italia. .
Conte then continued, talking about his last match at FC Inter.
“Now we have to go back to Milan, we’ll take two or three days off, and then with a cold head we’ll meet. It’s general to analyze the total season, look at everything very calmly and take a look to plan the long term of Inter, either with me or without me. “
“It’s been complicated and we’ll sense things. It was glorious for me to be the coach of Inter, I thank the owners who allowed me to live this wonderful experience.
“There is no resentment on my part or the club. There are other people I’ve worked with before, so that’s not the problem. These are issues of view, conditions that I have faced this year and that I have not liked, with all due respect to all. I have a circle of relatives and I want to perceive whether football is the precedent or my circle of relatives. “
As Sky Italy reported a few weeks ago, Antonio Conte will leave FC Inter in the coming days.
He will meet with the club next week to discuss his future, but the shadow of former Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri pursues him.
With Allegri still unpainted and available for rent, he is considered the big favorite to upgrade the 50-year-old man.
In addition, Allegri already races in Juventus with Beppe Marotta, current managing director of FC Inter.
Allegri would be the 3rd coach in the history of coach Juve, Milan and Nerazzurri behind Giovanni Trapattoni and Alberto Zaccheroni.
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