Sevilla will face Getafe in the final of Spain's knockout competition, the King's Cup, next month and are still in with a chance of finishing on top of La Liga.

And Ramos believes the penalty shoot-out win over Espanyol at Hampden Park on Wednesday means his players can attack both objectives without any fear of failure.

"We are at ease," he said after watching his side win the shoot-out 3-1 after Espanyol had scored a late extra-time equaliser to leave the two sides tied at 2-2, despite playing for almost an hour with ten men.

"Our season has already been successful thanks to this victory. We can tackle the league and the King's Cup in high spirits and we will see what happens."

Ruande added: "Having won it last season, we knew how tough it is to win this trophy and we have to enjoy it. For the rest, we will see."

Espanyol ensured it was a very close run thing and, before they had midfielder Moises Hurtado sent off with just over 20 minutes of regulation time remaining, looked the more likely winners.

But Ruande insisted his side had done enough to earn the trophy. "We were never behind and we had good chances, we just could not kill the match. Even with ten men, Espanyol were extremely tough and penalties are always a lottery.

"The tension is such anything can happen. But our players played a final last season, they have this experience and that helped us."

Ernesto Valverde described his side's defeat as "really cruel, especially when you think it has happened to this club before.

"There was a moment before the sending off when when I thought we were going to win. We had so many chances.

"But after that we had to take off (striker Raul) Tamudo and reorganise. It is very difficult to play against Sevilla, even eleven against eleven.

"We fought with a big heart and we walk away with our heads held high. To lose on penalties again is hard, but if I had to choose a way to lose, this would be the way to lose."