This is Jose Mourinho's 226th European game (including qualifiers and Super Cups).

For Jose Luis Mendilibar, two years his senior at 62, it is his seventh (including the Intertoto Cup.

Mourinho said: "I have had more opportunities to play in European competitions, but Mendilibar is of the same generation as me, with the same white hair. We are on an equal footing."

Sevilla were in relegation trouble until they appointed Jose Luis Mendilibar in March.

The much-travelled 62-year-old has never won a major trophy - and before this season his only European experience had been in the Intertoto Cup with Athletic Bilbao in 2005.

“Mistakes are what you pay for in games like this and it’s about making the fewest mistakes possible," he said.

“We’ve eliminated big teams, but the most difficult one is ahead of us. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes will win.”

First time I've ever heard a player say they have prepared for a game like a cup final... when it is a cup final. Usually you hear it for, say, the 33rd game of a 38-game league season.

Roma defender Gianluca Mancini said: "We prepared for this like a final. Finals must be played at one's best, with head, heart and grit. It's a different game.

"The path has been long, we are aware that we deserve it. In front of us we have a great team, we are aware of what we have prepared to play in the best way."

Sevilla and Roma have only met once before, in the 2019-20 Europa League last 16. Sevilla won 2-0 in a one-off tie in Germany.

This game will be the 14th European final between a Spanish and Italian team. The Spanish teams have won nine of the past 13 - incuding the last three.

When you're preparing for a big European final there is always time for selfie or the odd hug.

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Roma and the city of Rome are in a complete trance before the Europa League final in Budapest. This is due to the almost mystical relationship Jose Mourinho has built with both players and fans.

Rome lives in a condition of mass hysteria since the 'Special One' landed in the Italian capital in July 2021.

That was a coup de theatre of the finest art - no-one expected such a high calibre manager and such a character to return to Italy after his successes and controversial moments at previous club Inter Milan, least of all depressed Roma fans.

Much has happened since then. Fourteen years after their last Coppa Italia title, Roma's captain Lorenzo Pellegrini lifted the Europa Conference League trophy to the Tirana sky last May, a first ever continental success for the club.

Two months later, in front of an ecstatic crowd, superstar Paulo Dybala was unveiled during an emotional night. Mourinho has been the driving catalyst behind the commendable turnaround.

Read more here.

Quiz

With three European trophies up for grabs over the next 10 days, the very best of the coaching world will battle it out to add their name to a list of great managers who have preceded them.

Of the six bosses in the finals, only Manchester City's Pep Guardiola and Roma's Jose Mourinho have tasted continental success before.

That leaves Inter's Simone Inzaghi, West Ham's David Moyes, Sevilla's Jose Luis Mendilibar and Fiorentina boss Vincenzo Italiano all looking for their first European silverware as managers.

But which coaches have won the most major European trophies in history?

Take the quiz here.

England striker Tammy Abraham is looking to become the first player to win the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League. And he'd be doing it in successive years.

He won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2020-21, even though he did not feature in the final against Manchester City.

This is Roma's fifth European final - after the 1961 Fairs Cup, 1984 European Cup, 1991 Uefa Cup and 2022 Europa Conference League.

They won the first and last ones, against Birmingham and Feyenoord respectively, and lost the other two.

Sevilla’s Jesus Navas, 37 years and 191 days old, is the oldest outfielder to start the final since David Weir, who was 38, for Rangers against Zenit in 2008.

Navas won Sevilla's first Uefa Cup in 2006 against Middlesbrough when he was 20 years and 170 days old.

Sevilla make seven changes to the side that lost 2-1 to Real Madrid in La Liga last weekend.

Argentina World Cup-winning defender Marcos Acuna is suspended and replaced by on-loan Manchester United defender Alex Telles at left-back.

Sevilla are captained by Jesus Navas, 37.

The six-time winners also bring Youssef En-Nesyr, Fernando and Lucas Ocampos back into their starting line-up.

Sevilla XI: Bounou, Navas, Gudelj, Bade, Telles, Fernando, Rakitic, Ocampos, Torres, Gil, En-Nesyri.

Subs: Dmitrovic, Montiel, Rekik, Suso, Jordan, Mir, Kouassi, Lamela, Marcao, Gomez, Flores, Bueno.

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Roma make 10 changes to the side that started their 2-1 defeat by Fiorentina in Serie A at the weekend. The big news is that Paulo Dybala, who boss Jose Mourinho said might only be available for 20 or 30 minutes, starts in attack alongside Tammy Abraham.

Italy full-back Leonardo Spinazzola is also included after a muscle strain, while Rui Patricio, Roger Ibanez, Bryan Cristante, captain Lorenzo Pellegrini and Nemanja Matic also start.

Roma XI: Patricio, Ibanez, Mancini, Smalling, Spinazzola, Cristante, Matic, Celik, Pellegrini, Dybala, Abraham.

Subs: Karsdorp, Belotti, Llorente, Camara, Wijnaldum, Bove, Zalewski, Volpato, Boer, Tahirovic, El Shaarawy, Svilar.

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Roma boss Jose Mourinho has been to five European finals before - and won every single one of them.

2003 Uefa Cup: Porto 3-2 Celtic (Seville)

2004 Champions League: Monaco 0-3 Porto (Gelsenkirchen)

2010 Champions League: Bayern Munich 0-2 Inter Milan (Madrid)

2017 Europa League: Ajax 0-2 Manchester United (Solna)

2022 Europa Conference League: Roma 1-0 Feyenoord (Tirana)

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This is Sevilla's seventh final in the Uefa Cup or Europa League, all in the last 17 years - and they have yet to lose one.

2006: Sevilla 4-0 Middlesbrough (Eindhoven)

2007: Sevilla 2-2 Espanyol - Sevilla won on penalties (Glasgow)

2014: Sevilla 0-0 Benfica - Sevilla won on penalties (Turin)

2015: Sevilla 3-2 Dnipro (Warsaw)

2016: Sevilla 3-1 Liverpool (Basel)

2020: Sevilla 3-2 Inter Milan (Cologne)

In one corner, you have a team who have never lost a final in this competition.

In the other corner, you have a manager who has never lost a European final.

One of these runs will end tonight.

Welcome to live text commentary of the Europa League final between Sevilla and Roma.

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