Sevilla vs Elche: A Microscopic Battle on the Edge of the Known Football Universe Sometime this weekend, while missiles arc over the Black Sea, supply chains whimper in the South China Sea, and the last adult on Earth tries to remember what “work-life balance” used to feel like, two modest football clubs will meet in…
Sevilla’s Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium, 21:00 local time, Tuesday. The floodlights slice through Andalusian night like surgical lamps over a patient that keeps insisting it’s perfectly healthy. Sevilla—perennial Europa League addicts and Champions League group-stage escape artists—host Elche, the modest club from Alicante whose greatest international achievement is probably being mispronounced by British commentators (“El-chee? Elsh?…
