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UrbanFox

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We are going out on Monday from stansted to Malaga, 1 night there then train to sevilla for 2 nights. Then up to Madrid for a night where we fly back from on the Friday to stansted, 

 

no chance of getting in the ground so will fellow foxes without tickets be watching the game in the main centre of Seville? Just looking at where to get are hotels? 

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brucey

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11 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

All these Sevilla guys coming on here being dead friendly, polite and helpful - you know that somewhere on SevillaTalk we've got some knuckle dragger talking about how massive we are or some toss.

I actually had a look on their forums via google translate the other day, and their fans were more cautious/respectful of us than brugge/porto/copenhagen fans were on their forums combined

 

(this was after the man city game though lol)

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MC Prussian

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1 hour ago, Foxes1 said:

Bet the price of food and drinks are a lot cheaper than Copenhagen. Be interesting to see the price of match tickets

I can but suppose that ticket pricing is (at least in parts) down to the UEFA, not the club. And expect it to be expensive.

 

Even in Porto, about half of the stadium was empty because the home fans couldn't be bothered to pay such steep prices.

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Manwell Pablo

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3 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

I can but suppose that ticket pricing is (at least in parts) down to the UEFA, not the club. And expect it to be expensive.

 

Even in Porto, about half of the stadium was empty because the home fans couldn't be bothered to pay such steep prices.

 

Behave.

 

They could get tickets for Fifteen sodding Euros.

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Manwell Pablo

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8 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Yes, and they sold well. Rest of it was 25 and 30 per seat, though.

 

Economy's not doing too well over in Portugal.

 

Really? looked to me like it was mainly those seats there were empty to me.

 

They had 39,000 anyway which is about 7,0000 more than their average, if the point you make is UEFA enforce hiked prices, I don't for a second believe that is the case, Kiev still sell away tickets for about £4.

 

Any increase is the responsibility of the club involved.

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13 hours ago, UrbanFox said:

We are going out on Monday from stansted to Malaga, 1 night there then train to sevilla for 2 nights. Then up to Madrid for a night where we fly back from on the Friday to stansted, 

 

no chance of getting in the ground so will fellow foxes without tickets be watching the game in the main centre of Seville? Just looking at where to get are hotels? 

 

I hear hotel Abril is the place to stay in Sevilla. Cheap, central and €1 breakfast!

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Speaking of Emery, it’s the team he left behind that are threatening to turn Spain’s traditional two-horse race into a three-piece. Sevilla, now under the lively tutelage of former Chile boss Jorge Sampaoli, have taken Atletico’s place as La Liga’s surprise title contenders this season, and despite a tough draw in the Champions League – Los Rojilancos were paired with Juventus and Lyon in the group stage – they’re making a good fist of it in Europe, too.

Their opponents in the last 16? None other than last year’s runaway English champions Leicester, who despite a less than convincing title defence, have made an impressive start to life on the continent. They’ve won four of their first six games, comfortably topping a group including competition mainstays Porto (the team which did, admittedly, thrash a makeshift Foxes side in the final round – an aberration for which Ranieri’s men, having turned their attention to a relegation battle back home, can be forgiven).

 

This is definitely one tie that we haven’t seen before: Leicester are embarking on their maiden season in the Champions League, while Sevilla – who lifted the Europa League three years running – have finally made it to the knockout stages after coming up just short in seasons past.

It’s a game that doesn’t carry quite the same glamour as Arsenal’s date with Bayern Munich, neither PSG’s with Barcelona, but it does pit against each other two of the teams which have helped define recent football history.

Sevilla, like England’s Southampton but on a much larger scale, are habituated to losing their best players to rival teams nigh-on every transfer window. Ever Banega, Gregorz Krychowiak and Kevin Gameiro – who found new homes at Inter, PSG and Atletico respectively – were the latest to jump ship this summer (along with their manager of three-and-a-half years), and yet the Spanish team have found a way to reinvent themselves yet again.

Leicester have already lived the domestic fairy-tale Sevilla may be on the brink of, having flagrantly disregarded the Premier League’s established order to deliver the most unlikely title win in a generation.

 

Their philosophy – led by wily veteran Claudio Ranieri – is an ostensibly simple one that brings the best out of every player: the long, angled balls of Fuchs and Huth, the deft brilliance of Mahrez, the penetrating runs of Vardy (and until Chelsea came along and ruined everything, the tireless mopping up work of Kante).

Stylistically, this could be one of the competition’s most intriguing match-ups. It’s devastating counter-attacking that has got Leicester this far, and while the form of their primary goal source is looking patchy, they showed against City that they pose an enormous threat to teams with a high defensive line.


The Spanish side’s European pedigree means they are the bookies’ favourites, but the Foxes – who will contest the return leg in front of their own fans – play in a way that makes them very difficult to catch once they go in front. If Sampaoli’s men lose a goal at home, this tie becomes a truly fascinating one – and remember: Italian Ranieri is an expert in nothing if not closing out a nervy 1-0 win.Step forward Sevilla, whose coach Sampaoli – like his spiritual leader Marcelo Bielsa – favours a relentless pressing game, aimed at winning the ball in the opponent’s half and tiring them into submission. They might be without Gameiro but replacement Luciano Vietto knows where the goal is, while former Stoke man Steven N’Zonzi is proving a more than capable deputy for the departed Krychowiak in the centre of the park.

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On 15/12/2016 at 21:06, UrbanFox said:

We are going out on Monday from stansted to Malaga, 1 night there then train to sevilla for 2 nights. Then up to Madrid for a night where we fly back from on the Friday to stansted, 

 

no chance of getting in the ground so will fellow foxes without tickets be watching the game in the main centre of Seville? Just looking at where to get are hotels? 

7:30am flight the monday morning? If so see u on there 

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