Man Utd mustn’t underestimate Sevilla – Navas

Manchester United need to light no longer underestimate Sevilla after they meet within the closing 16 of the Champions League, says Jesus Navas.

The two facets meet within the dear leg of their tie at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on Wednesday, with United the favourites to technique to the quarter-finals having received their neighborhood.

Sevilla face a combat for a high-four stop in LaLiga but contain already booked a suite within the Copa del Rey closing in opposition to Barcelona, which Navas believes deserves respect from Jose Mourinho’s side.

« For us, it is all about getting by means of to the next spherical, » the aged Manchester Metropolis winger suggested The Mirror.

« But I comprehend it’d be tremendous for about a of the mates I’ve obtained serve in Manchester if we did arrange to drag it off and knock out United.

« If of us underestimate us, they must light model at what we’re doing at the 2d, our performances, the truth we have got obtained to a closing already and we’re light in all of the competitions. We’re a huge side and we are capable of enact issues.

« United contain been continuously our big competitors when I became at Metropolis, and we played some in fact crucial games in opposition to them. But now this is a in fact crucial game for Sevilla, for the membership, for our followers, and it’d be big for us to execute it to the quarter-finals.

« We know we would possibly want to light be at our most stage and concentrated at some level of every and every games, on tale of at any 2d, a high crew like United can stop the tie.

« United contain additionally obtained some in fact crucial games coming up, beginning with us, but optimistically we’re going with a conception to face in their manner. »

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Navas became a Premier League champion in his first season at Metropolis and additionally claimed two EFL Cups. He has been impressed by how Pep Guardiola has obtained the crew playing to put a 16-level advantage over United within the tip flight.

« In my first 365 days I received the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned loads from my abilities in England and I have faith it became all obvious, » said Navas.

« I received titles virtually about yearly I became there and I played virtually yearly, rather then my closing season when I did no longer play as worthy.

« But I’m serve dwelling with Sevilla now, we’re within the closing of the Copa Del Rey, the closing 16 of the Champions League and going smartly in LaLiga, so I in fact feel like I’m in a soft set.

« I light talk with David Silva. Now we contain a non-public relationship and we discuss inside of most issues, but we have got no longer obtained into football that worthy.

« But Metropolis are playing some smartly-behaved football now. They continuously contain possession of the ball, which is what Guardiola likes his groups to attain, and they’re in fact palatable to survey. »