Sevilla went down to Espanyol from the cloud. The great performances signed so far in the preseason, especially in Europe, remained in the pipeline before a serious and orderly set. Julen Lopetegui's team wanted to send in the game, he did it well and took advantage of a very good Reguilón performance and Nolito's nose for a more than deserved victory (0-2).

The good feelings accumulated in the previous Europa League were soon parked before a Sevilla that was planted in Cornellà-El Prat with great desire to be a protagonist. The whole of Lopetegui dominated the game widely in the first 45 minutes of the crash, arrived insistently in the vicinity of the Diego López area and ended up finding the goal prize when the first part died. Reguilón, very active in the left side of the Sevilla team, took advantage of a muddled play in which there was a double shot by De Jong and a stop by the blue and white goalkeeper to send the duel to rest with an advantage for his own.

The goal, to a large extent, did justice to the merits accumulated by the visitors, although the Espanyol, once surpassed the initial sevillista arreón, managed to try to pay him with the same currency. Those of David Gallego perhaps lacked a little more pause when organizing their attacks, much as Marc Roca, Melendo and Vargas left again and again details that could invite the optimism of the premises. The best option for the Blue and Whites, precisely, was born in the boots of the Argentine: a hard shot that Vaclik, not without effort, managed to finally send to corner.

The picture did not change after the break. The best option for Espanyol was a penalty initially pointed out by Martínez Munuera who, after the VAR mediated and the colleague himself consulted the television images, stayed at nothing. The Blue and Whites barely disturbed Vaclik and Sevilla had the occasion to increase their lead on the scoreboard. Above all, through a Nolito who ended up sending the ball well above the crossbar.

The blue and white coach tried to find a revulsive betting on playing with three centrals in the final stretch. But, at the same time, he sent the bank to his two initial references in attack, Wu Lei and Ferreyra , leaving the young Victor Campuzano and a Darder pointed out, who apparently did not quite convince him too much. A variation that, far from complicating the life of Seville, ended up making things easier for Nolito, four minutes after the regulatory time was fulfilled, to definitively kill the 0-2 match.

It helped him, and much, the little forcefulness of a defense that made water throughout the duel. The defeat, the first one with Gallego on the bench, is a serious blur for the image rather than herd that the parakeets had transmitted so far. Reconciling with her, with a view to next Thursday, is vital. The dream of returning definitively to Europe is now too close to let him escape before the Ukrainian Zorya Lugansk.

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