Nuno Espirito Santo’s appearance earned him a 1-0 win in Molineux thanks to Jiménez’s eight-minute shot on Thursday to sneak into the tournament’s exclusive format in Germany.
The wolf season lasted more than a year amid the coronavirus pandemic, however, Jimenez asked them to continue with the cutlery.
Raúl Jiménez (left) faces Olympiakos’ Lazar Randjelovic in the Europa League of 16 in Molineux.
He said: “It’s amazing to be in the quarterfi finals. We’ve had a long adventure to be here, but now we have to deal with that knowing it’s going to be hard, yet we’re betting on anything and we need that.
“It’s too big. After our first year in the Premier League, we learned a lot, we reached the Europa League, now this year we have scored more problems in the Premier League and now we are in the quarter-finals, yes. More.
“It’s a very long season. We started last year and now we’re here, with the same players, with the same pace, now we’re looking to accomplish wonderful things and we know we can do it.”
“Now we have to move on to Germany, focus on what’s going on and then think about the next game.”
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Jiménez scored his twenty-seventh goal of the season, after goalkeeper Bobby Allain knocked down Daniel Podence, to send the Wolves to the eighth round of a European festival for the first time since 1972.
“This purpose means everything. That’s been all over the season. From the beginning, we trained, we work hard,” he said.
“We arrived in the Europa League in the qualifying rounds and had a wonderful season, but we have to move on.”
15 times winner, Sevilla beat Roma 2-0 on Thursday and fourth in La Liga this season.
The wolves will have to win the Europa League to qualify for the Champions League or they will not face European football next season, but Jimenez is aware of the challenge they face on Tuesday in Duisburg.
He told the club’s official website: “We know it’s going to be difficult, it’s going to be difficult. We know they’re a smart team and they play well, but we play as a team, as a group, as a family.” , as if we were playing all season.
“They’re a very smart team, but I think we can do some really smart things and we have very smart players to deal with them.”