Real Betis are annoyed by cross city rivals Sevilla's public praise of Enzo Maresca, who led Chelsea to the UEFA Conference League title on Wednesday.

Sevilla have condemned the violent acts by "a gang of organised radicals" that led to their players and staff having to spend Saturday night at their training facility.

Fans gathered at training complex after defeat to CeltaClub condemn ‘aggression and vandalism’ in statement Sevilla players were forced to sleep at the club’s training ground following “extreme violence” from supporters after their 3-2 defeat by Celta Vigo. A club statement released on Sunday strongly condemned “organised vandalism” at the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios training complex. Footage on social media appeared to show fans with pyrotechnics gathering outside the training ground on Saturday, with an access gate being damaged. Continue reading...

Manuel Pellegrini’s team of misfits beat Sevilla in the league for the first time in seven years and celebrated in style This weekend, 46,731 people came to see Betis and Sevilla but the derby wasn’t until the following night – so 33 hours later they came back and did it all over again, even better. Saturday’s second-biggest attendance in Spain had watched the country’s most passionate rivals train. Sunday’s very biggest crowd saw them play, a record 58,538 fans still inside and still singing late into a night they’ll never forget. The Benito Villamarín was bouncing, smoke rising round the home fans as they belted out the club’s anthem – here we are, squashed together like cannon balls – as the players started a lap of honour. Somewhere in all the madness and the noise, Antony dos Santos, stripped to the waist and sitting on the goalkeeper Adrián San Miguel’s shoulders, heaved a giant flag through the air. “This is incredible,” he said, and it was. This was Antony’s first Seville derby and he’d not seen anything like it for years: never mind Ajax or Old Trafford, this took him back to Brazil. But it wasn’t just him, a debutant in a fixture that hits hard; nor had anyone else, the place going wild, something extra in the celebrations this time, Betis players still there half an hour after the end, parading round the pitch before bounding down corridors, singing and hammering at doors, cracking open the beers. You’d think they had won the Champions League. The one man there who has – five times – said that when it came to “feeling, vibrations, this is without doubt the most special game there is,” so Isco Alarcón and his teammates celebrated something that, right there in the moment, felt even better: they had beaten rivals Sevilla 2-1. Continue reading...

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Former Manchester City star Jesus Navas has broken records for Sevilla, but chronic pain forced him to hang up his boots just six montha after playing for Spain at Euro 2024

French striker scores and assists in 4-2 win over SevillaDybala scores twice in Roma’s 5-0 win against Parma Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé netted the opener and set up another goal as the hosts beat mid-table Sevilla 4-2 on Sunday to move up to second place in La Liga and close the gap on Atlético Madrid to one point going into the winter break. Mbappé scored with a thunderbolt from outside the box in the 10th minute before Federico Valverde put reigning champions Real two goals ahead from long-range 10 minutes later. Rodrygo fired home the third in the 34th from a cross by Lucas Vazquez. Continue reading...

On Sunday, aged 39, Sevilla’s Jesús Navas brings down the curtain on Spanish football’s most glittering career A little after 9am in Montequinto, Seville, and Jesús Navas walks past the Jesús Navas Stadium and up the little slope in the sunshine, gym to the left, training pitch to the right. The first to arrive and he’s moving OK this morning, which isn’t something he can say every day, but still he comes. Soon, too soon, he won’t. “It’s my life,” he says, “what I’ve always done, who I am.” The stand bearing his name wasn’t here when he first turned up, a quarter of a century ago. Most of this wasn’t; the trophies at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, three miles north, certainly weren’t. Everything changes, except him. “I’m the same as the first day,” he says. That day, Navas was 15, a small, skinny, shy boy from Los Palacios, 15 minutes south. It was 2000 and he has been coming almost every morning since, apart from four seasons in Manchester which he enjoyed more even than you might imagine. He is still small, slight: 5ft 7in and 67kg. Still quiet, too: warm company, but not a man with any desire for the spotlight, any delusions of grandeur. Only he is the grandest footballer of all here at Sevilla Fútbol Club. Continue reading...

Antoine Griezmann caps a 4-3 victory over Sevilla with a galvanising moment that has the faithful dreaming big When at last the battle was over, the Little Prince picked up his shield, their shield that they had fought for, and raised it to the dark night sky. If a picture tells a story, try this one from Denis Doyle late on Sunday night, something epic in it, football made film, a gift: Antoine Griezmann and the grand gesture. A cliche, sure, yet cinematic too, a poster for the premiere and possibly even planned, overblown the way it’s supposed to be. Taken from the final scene, The End and also a beginning, another saga starting. “We go together,” the Frenchman said. “This is the path towards dreaming something big.” With 93 minutes gone against Sevilla, a man falling at his feet, Griezmann turned and smashed a shot in off the bar, victory secured at the last with the 5,000th goal in the club’s history, From 3-1 down, Atlético were now 4-3 up, heading to victory while their opponents slipped to their knees. As the ball bounced back out the net, Alexander Sørloth sent it sailing over the bar and into the north stand and Griezmann ran west, throwing his shirt almost as high. It floated and fell, then he gathered it from the field. Now he stood in the wind, blond hair swept back, a little Legolas, red against a black sky, shield raised, sleeves like ribbons around it. Continue reading...

France attacker scores injury-time goal for 4-3 winNapoli miss chance to return to top with Lazio loss A second-half double from Antoine Griezmann earned Atlético Madrid a stunning 4-3 comeback home win over Sevilla in La Liga on Sunday, as the hosts claimed their ninth straight win in all competitions. Atlético made a dominant start at home, with Griezmann hitting the crossbar before Rodrigo De Paul opened the scoring in the 10th minute, hammering a rocket from the edge of the box and into the top corner. Dodi Lukebakio equalised just two minutes later with a powerful low strike following a corner before Isaac Romero put Sevilla ahead after a quick counterattack in the 32nd minute, shooting across Jan Oblak, who could only get a finger to the ball. Continue reading...

Real Madrid legend Sergio Ramos has been a free agent since departing Sevilla over the summer but the defender has now entered talks to join a new club on a different continent

West Ham's head coach Julen Lopetegui has taken charge of Sevilla against Betis and Real Madrid against Barcelona but he knows measuring aggression is vital if West Ham are to shock Tottenham

Athletic held while Aspas continues hot streak for CeltaPolitano and Kvaratskhelia give Napoli win over Monza While Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid played out a spicy 1-1 draw marred by crowd trouble, elsewhere in La Liga Giovani Lo Celso’s 85th-minute goal gave Real Betis a 1-0 home victory over Espanyol. Sevilla punished the goalkeeper Julen Agirrezabala’s sending off as Alex Padilla struck deep into second half added-time to secure a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao. Iago Aspas made it four goals and two assists in eight games for Celta Vigo as his late strike earned a share of the spoils with Girona in a 1-1 draw. Continue reading...

Thursday’s European games in men’s and women’s gameLive scoreboard | Email Taha with your thoughts Europa League: Of course José has a pic on Fenerbahce’s team sheet. They’ve got some serious Europa heritage thanks to Youssef En-Nesyri, signed from Sevilla – who usually run this show – in the summer. Women’s Champions League: England’s Mary Earps is in the PSG XI for their encounter against Juventus, her side having lost the first leg 3-1. Continue reading...