Sevilla FC, the six-time winner and most successful club in the UEFA Europa League, will face England’s West Ham in this season’s round of 16, while their neighbor Real Betis will face Germany’s Frankfurt and FC Barcelona will host Turkish Galatasaray.
There was not much luck for the two teams from Seville, a city that will host the final of this Europa League at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. For their part, the sevillistas will face the sole representative of the Premier League, with a return to the London Olympic Stadium.
For its part, Real Betis will face a Frankfurt that is tenth in the Bundesliga in a tie in which, in principle, the Betis start as favorites due to their great form in LaLiga Santander, third.
And the third representative of LaLiga, the FC Barcelona, He is the luckiest player in the draw held this Friday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland). Xavi Hernández’s men will recall duels from the past against a Galatasaray who will try to give the bell against a Barça that has just eliminated Napoli with great football.
