PSV Eindhoven vs Sevilla facts

UEFA Europa League specialists Sevilla have a 3-0 lead to protect as they visit Eindhoven, where PSV must become only the second team in the competition's history to overturn that deficit if they are to keep their European season alive.

PSV amassed 13 points in UEFA Europa League Group A during the autumn, finishing runners-up to Arsenal, while Sevilla reached this stage for the second successive season having once again finished third in their UEFA Champions League group, their five-point tally not enough to challenge Manchester City or Borussia Dortmund.

Previous meetings

The clubs met for the first time in a UEFA fixture on 16 February, and it was the Spanish side who emerged with a comprehensive victory, thereby reinforcing their outstanding UEFA Europa League record at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. Youssef En-Nesyri put Sevilla in front on the stroke of half-time before substitute Lucas Ocampos took centre stage with a superb goal and assist – for Nemanja Gudelj – as the Andalusians ran out 3-0 winners.

PSV have considerable experience against Spanish opposition in UEFA competition, but of their 35 previous encounters they have won just five, losing 17. Four of their victories have been on Dutch soil, but they have failed to win any of their last seven games against Spanish visitors in Eindhoven (D3 L4), losing three in a row before drawing 2-2 with Real Sociedad in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage.

PSV's record in two-legged knockout ties against Spanish opposition is W4 L5. They have lost the last four, most recently on penalties after two 0-0 draws against Atlético de Madrid in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16, having won the previous four, including semi-final wins against Barcelona in the 1977/78 UEFA Cup (3-0 h, 1-3 a) and Real Madrid in the 1987/88 European Cup (1-1 a, 0-0 h) en route to winning both competitions.

The first leg of this tie was just the fourth competitive match that Sevilla have played against Dutch opponents, the previous three having all come in triumphant European campaigns. They lost 1-2 at home to AZ Alkmaar in their final group game of the 2006/07 UEFA Cup and exchanged a pair of 2-0 home wins with Feyenoord in the group stage of the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League. In each case Sevilla went through as runners-up to their Dutch opponents.

Form guide

PSV

PSV finished two points behind Ajax in last season's Eredivisie, taking the runners-up spot for the second successive season, but beat the champions 2-1 in the Dutch Cup final to lift the trophy for the first time in a decade and tenth overall. Their 2021/22 European campaign lasted 18 matches, incorporating six in each of the three competitions, before they lost their UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-final to Leicester City (0-0 a, 1-2 h).

An extra-time victory over Monaco in this season's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (2-2 a, 3-2 h) took new head coach Ruud van Nistelrooy's side into the play-offs, where they were knocked out by Rangers (2-2 a, 0-1 h). PSV therefore moved into the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they competed for a record-equalling tenth time (level with Lazio). Two big wins against FC Zürich (5-1 a, 5-0 h) were supplemented by further successes at home to Arsenal (2-0) and away to Bodø/Glimt (2-1), though dropped points in the earlier fixtures against those two sides – 1-1 at home to Bodø/Glimt, 0-1 at Arsenal – left them behind the English side in second place.

PSV have now made further progress into the UEFA Europa League knockout phase six times, having missed out last season when they finished third behind Monaco and Real Sociedad with eight points. The Eindhoven club have not advanced to the round of 16 since 2011/12, their best performance in the competition having come a year earlier, when they reached the quarter-finals.

PSV's home record in Europe this season is W3 D2 L1. In the UEFA Europa League knockout phase it is W4 D3 L1, the only defeat 0-1 against Zenit in the first leg of the 2014/15 round of 32 (0-4 agg).

PSV have lost the first leg away from home on 31 occasions in UEFA competition and have come back to win the tie 12 times, though not in the last four instances, most recently losing against Benfica in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League play-offs (1-2 a, 0-0 h). They have never overturned a deficit of more than two goals, losing both of the previous two ties in which they were defeated 3-0, the last of them in the 1988 UEFA Super Cup against Mechelen (1-0 h).

Sevilla

Sevilla finished fourth in the Spanish Liga for the third season in a row in 2021/22. Third in their UEFA Champions League group, Julen Lopetegui's side moved across to the UEFA Europa League in mid-season and eliminated Dinamo Zagreb in the knockout play-offs (3-1 h, 0-1 a) before going out to West Ham (1-0 h, 0-2 aet) in the round of 16.

This season proved another struggle in the UEFA Champions League, with Lopetegui failing to survive the group stage and former boss Jorge Sampaoli returning to the club as they again finished third, a 3-0 home win against FC Copenhagen clinching that spot after they had fallen to earlier heavy defeats in Seville against Manchester City (0-4) and Dortmund (1-4). They drew in both Denmark (0-0) and Germany (1-1) before losing 3-1 in England on Matchday 6.

Sevilla are appearing in the knockout phase of the UEFA Europa League for the eighth time. They have lifted the trophy on four of their previous seven appearances – in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 with Unai Emery as head coach and in 2019/20 under Lopetegui – as well as winning the UEFA Cup back-to-back in 2005/06 and 2006/07, making them the competition's most successful club. They have lost just three of their 25 UEFA Europa League knockout phase ties – on away goals against Porto in the 2010/11 round of 32 (1-2 h, 1-0 a) and after extra time against both Slavia Praha in the 2018/19 round of 16 (2-2 h, 3-4 a) and West Ham last season.

Sevilla's record on the road in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase, including fixtures at neutral venues, is W13 D6 L6, but they have failed to win any of their last nine European away fixtures (D5 L4), two of the defeats having come last season in this competition at Dinamo Zagreb and West Ham.

Sevilla have won all but three of the 23 UEFA competition ties in which they claimed a home victory in the first leg, those exceptions in each case when they were unable to defend a one-goal advantage, including last season against West Ham. The three previous ties in which they won the home leg 3-0 all came in triumphant UEFA Europa League campaigns – against Mladost Podgorica in the 2013/14 third qualifying round (6-1 a), Fiorentina in the 2014/15 semi-finals (2-0 a) and Molde in the 2015/16 round of 32 (0-1 a).

UEFA Europa League squad changes

PSV

In: Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Dortmund, loan), Fábio Silva (Wolves, loan), Patrick van Aanholt (Galatasaray, loan)
Out: Jeremy Antonisse (Emmen, loan), Cody Gakpo (Liverpool), Jesse Giebels (FC Eindhoven), Ki-Jana Hoever (Wolves, end loan), Mees Kreekels (Helmond Sport), Noni Madueke (Chelsea), Philipp Max (Eintracht Frankfurt, loan), Fredrik Oppegård (Go Ahead Eagles, loan), Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse), Yorbe Vertessen (Union St-Gilloise, loan), Dennis Vos (Emmen)

Sevilla

In: Loïc Badé (Rennes, loan), Bryan Gil (Tottenham, loan), Lucas Ocampos (Ajax, end loan), Óliver Torres
Out: Isco (released), José Ángel Carmona (Elche, loan), Thomas Delaney (Hoffenheim, loan), Kasper Dolberg (Nice, end loan), Juanmi (Badajoz), Adnan Januzaj, Kike Salas (Tenerife, loan)

Links and trivia 

Luuk de Jong rejoined PSV from Sevilla last summer after a season on loan at Barcelona. He scored ten times in 69 Liga appearances for the Andalusian side and also found the net twice in the 2020 UEFA Europa League final against Inter Milan (3-2), earning the Man of the Match award.

Sevilla's Dutch defender Karim Rekik spent two seasons on loan at PSV between 2013 and 2015, making 69 appearances for the club in all competitions and scoring twice. He was a team-mate of De Jong in 2014/15 and played for the Netherlands with PSV's Anwar El Ghazi.

Sevilla midfielder Gudelj played in the Netherlands for NAC Breda (2009–13), AZ Alkmaar (2013–15) and Ajax (2015–17). He faced PSV ten times in total (W3 L7) and played alongside El Ghazi at Ajax.

Another Sevilla player, Jesús 'Tecatito' Corona, was an Eredivisie player with Twente from 2013 to 2015, scoring 11 goals in 46 league appearances for the Enschede club. Corona is a Mexico national team-mate of PSV's Erick Gutiérrez.

PSV's new loan signing Thorgan Hazard came off the bench in both of Borussia Dortmund's UEFA Champions League matches against Sevilla in the autumn – as he did for PSV in the first leg of this tie.

Ocampos spent the first half of this season on loan at Eredivisie champions Ajax. He was an unused substitute in a 1-2 home defeat by PSV on 6 November.

PSV coach Van Nistlerooy played in Spain for Real Madrid (2006–10) and Málaga (2011/12). He faced Sevilla five times (W1 L4), scoring twice in his only victory over the Andalusian side, 3-2 in Madrid on 6 May 2007.

PSV were the highest-scoring team in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage with 15 goals – two more than section winners Fenerbahçe, Feyenoord and Freiburg and seven more than the team that finished above them in Group A, Arsenal.

Sevilla are one of only two teams to have returned to the UEFA Europa League knockout play-offs for a second successive season, the other domestic rivals Barcelona.

There have been 44 previous occasions in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, when a team has won the first leg by three goals or more. Only once has the defeated side recovered to win the tie, Valencia overcoming Basel 5-0 at home after extra time following a 0-3 first-leg defeat in the 2013/14 quarter-finals.

Penalty shoot-outs

PSV's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L3:
6-5 v Benfica, 1987/88 European Cup final
6-7 v Nacional, 1988 European/South American Cup
4-5 v Feyenoord, 2001/02 UEFA Cup quarter-final
4-2 v Lyon, 2004/05 UEFA Champions League round of 16
6-5 v Tottenham, 2007/08 UEFA Europa League round of 16
7-8 v Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16

Sevilla's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1:
4-3 v PAOK, 1990/91 UEFA Cup first round
3-1 v Espanyol, 2006/07 UEFA Cup final
2-3 v Fenerbahçe, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16
4-3 v Real Betis, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16
4-2 v Benfica, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League final
5-4 v Athletic Club, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-final