For more than a year, from March 2014 to May 2015, the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan had been unconquerable, a house of misery for its visitors. Inside its walls, 34 consecutive opponents had fought its inhabitants, Sevilla, in a 14-month stretch, and not a single one had left in triumph. Not one.
Among those frustrated in the Andalusian capital had been Barcelona and Atletico Madrid; among those dispatched had been Real Madrid and Valencia. Home to a team with flair and conviction, a home to an environment of intensity, the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan had become impenetrable.
But not anymore.