Sevilla goalkeeper Andres Palop expressed his delight after scoring the goal that gave his team a last-gasp lifeline before completing the comeback to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 and qualify to the UEFA Cup quarter finals. Unmarked Palop headed home a stoppage time strike that forced an extra-time after a 4-4 aggregate draw before Ernesto Chevanton scored later to secure the victory. The former Valencia guardian explained that watching his teammates' moves in training helped him score the dramatic goal. "I decided to go up and have a go," Palop was quoted as saying by Eurosport.
Ramos "Each defender had someone to mark and I was left a little bit on my own. I just copied the sort of movements I see my team mates do in training." "It was a fantastic corner and I thought to myself 'this has to be a goal, no one is jumping for it, I'm on my own'. It was incredible, so exciting. I was completely overwhelmed." Sevilla manager Juande Ramos commented on the goal that maintained his side's hopes of clinching a second successive UEFA Cup title. "It was a desperate tactic, something you normally do when you have nothing else left," he said. "We should have sorted out the tie before that, but Palop's goal was just the sort of stroke of luck we didn't get before."
