COLOGNE – Manchester United will have to be on their toes and find ways to break Sevilla's press if they are to beat the Spanish side in Sunday's Europa League semi-final, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said on Saturday.
Sevilla have made Europe's second-tier competition their own in recent years, winning the title three times in a row between 2014-2016, and they finished fourth in La Liga under Julen Lopetegui after two seasons without a top-four finish. Solskjaer said he hoped his team would be third time lucky this season after falling at the semi-final hurdle in the League Cup to Manchester City and in the FA Cup to Chelsea.
"We have to play our best game, play out of their press, be clever, be creative, step up in those big moments," Solskjaer told reporters."These games will be decided on a set-piece or a piece of individual brilliance. "It's time to step up for big players, big game moments. You have to have 100% focus. We have learnt it is very painful to lose a semi-final... We've been in them twice this season but we're not satisfied."Any moment can win or lose you the game and we’ve learnt that it’s very painful when you lose a semi-final."
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