The second act of Sevilla FC's first Champions League quarter-final in 60 years hands the side a close to impossible task: overturn a red-hot Bayern Munich who have won their last two home matches 6-0 and who just this weekend secured their 28th Bundesliga title. In the lap of the European elite, financially dwarfed by remaining survivors in the competition, Sevilla have already made history and will now need to prove that they can do it again. Taking a leaf out of the book of a heroic AS Roma side who overturned their Champions League tie last night, Sevilla will need to throw all caution to the wind, knowing they have nothing to lose. We did it in the Theatre of Dreams, why not again in Germany?
We shocked the world once in Manchester, we can do it again in the Allianz
With the spirit Sevilla has so often shown in huge European fixtures, Montella's men face a fixture that will go down in the Club's history regardless of the result. Two teams that, barring one result each, have scored in every one of their Champions League ties so far, now face very different objectives - in Bayern's case to shut up shop, in Sevilla's to come out all guns blazing. Unlucky in many departments in the first-leg, Sevilla will certainly need to cut out an unfortunate run of own goals - which has seen the side put three into their own net in two consecutive games - and will need to show lethal incision when facing either a returning Manuel Neuer or an ever-consistent Sven Ulreich.