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When Monchi chose Julen Lopetegui to direct his new project, some Sevilla fans snorted. Either they didn't see it or they didn't want to see it. In soccer, as in cities, there are many questions that are only answered on the outskirts. The team, Madrid, Porto . His designation was full of shadows. That the fans doubt and that the heart beats are two brother phenomena in this sport. Each one suffers their own. But this Seville , thanks to the stubbornness of its sports director, is built to dream.

The victory (2-0) against AS Roma is a gift of ninety minutes for those unbelievers, if there are any left. A peace, and then glory. A hand extended towards the future. Lopetegui has built a great team. Then come unexpected goals, heroics or exhaustion, the scoreboard or melancholy; but Sevilla FC has been a season that calls for hope. Play safely and patiently. It has solutions and nerve. Win with trade. A folkloric steps on the grass like the stage, with the same thunder. Banega wags his tail from left to right across the stage. His companions move in harmony. Navas does not wither. Fernando is impassable. The field opens and the opponent crumbles. Two goals in the first forty-five minutes. And not only that.

The Basque coach had a plan. He left Munir and De Jong , presumable starters, on the bench. Suso and En-Nesyri occupied their positions. With Fernando, Jordán and Banega in the middle, the block had an order to press and recover. Harassment and fierceness. Crush the three centrals, plug their creation in the center, disconnect the forwards. Turn them into castaways after the storm. Fonseca did not see the tidal wave coming. Zaniolo , in charge of pulling the giallorossi, dissolved like sugar in the central circle. Diego Carlos and Koundé who, like Pimpinela, appear as a couple but in reality are brothers, they did not give even one meter to the fantasizing Romanists. They did not pounce on their passes, but on their ideas.

Ocampos warned in the first minutes. A shot from the corner of the box was brilliantly answered by Pau López. In the 15th minute, it was Koundé who headed the crossbar after a corner kick. Rome was dwarfed, trembling, absent. Kolarov tried to encourage his own by drawing typhos on the ankles of the Sevilla fans. The goal, like mortgaging, seemed inevitable. And it came in the 21st minute, after an electrical play by Reguilón . He controlled, lowered the ball to the ground, lined the door, left opponents behind and threw hard and to the center. Pau ducked with the gracefulness of one of those AT-ATs on the snow in Star Wars. He could do more the goal of the Italians.

The goal angered, but did not improve, the Romans. Sevilla wanted more. The party crossed a wasteland. Red helplessness, white enthusiasm. Pressure, recovery and kickback. Like in the school. Tribal and tireless. Thus came the second goal. Ocampos led the attack, dodged the desperate entry of Ibañez, yielded to En-Nesyri and the Moroccan, in flight, finished on goal.

Fonseca put Carles Pérez and Pellegrini on the grass after the break. He wanted to conquer the bands and compete the midfielder against the insignificance of Zaniolo and Diawara . Julen kept the block, but relaxed the pressure, tucking his centrals, waiting for the rival tantrum. Rome started well, arriving without clarity, but stepping in the area of ​​Bono, showing itself in strange lands. First, Mkhitaryan tried a long shot, and later Dzeko, in an instinctive shot that narrowly missed. Sevilla answered with a goal annulled by Koundé in '72. It was no longer a monologue by Sevilla, but Roma still had little to say. Banega's free kick to the post was the luminous epitaph for a match to remember.

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