Europa League

Sevilla 3 – Molde 0

Sevilla: David Soria; Coke, Carriço, Kolodziejczak, Escudero; N’Zonzi, Cristóforo (Iborra ‘); Vitolo, Banega, Krohn-Dehli (Konoplyanka 73‘); Llorente (Gameiro 57‘). 4-2-3-1.
Molde: Horvath; Toivio, Gabrielsen, Forren, Per Egil Flo; Daniel Hestad; Diouf, Moström, Aursnes (Svendsen 80’), Elyounoussi (Eirik Hestad 63‘); Gulbrandsen (Agnaldo 73’). 4-1-4-1.

Goals:
1-0. 35. Llorente. Fired shot past Horvath and in off post after Vitolo tackled.
2-0. 49. Llorente. Picked up Coke pass and held off marker to beat Horvath.
3-0. 72. Gameiro. Connected with Vitolo pass and struck low shot past keeper.

Defending champions Sevilla are looking good for a place in the next round of the Europa League after a 3-0 victory over Molde. Like Valencia, the Andalusians had dropped down from the Champions League after finishing third in their group, and they got off to a shaky start, Elyounoussi and Gulbrandsen going close, and Soria having to turn a shot from Gulbrandsen for a corner. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team hardly got near the local goal after that though, Banega firing a couple of shots wide before Fernando Llorente opened the scoring with ten minutes to go to the break. The ex Bilbao and Juventus striker headed just past the post soon afterwards, and some four minutes in to the second half he made it two with a shot on the turn after Coke put him through. Coke himself hit the bar minutes later, and with twenty minutes to go substitute Gameiro latched on to Vitolo’s pass to drill a shot under keeper Horvath for the third. Gameiro and N’Zonzi could have added to the lead after that, but Emery’s side had already done enough to take a comfortable lead to the second leg in Norway next week.