Sevilla reinforced their fourth place that would classify them again for the Champions League by winning this Wednesday against Elche (2-0) in their postponed match of the second day of LaLiga, which was decided by the Moroccan
Youssef En-Nesyri
, in vein of successes, and Argentine
Franco 'Mudo' Vázquez
, with a high heel goal at the end of a lackluster clash.
The first half was equalized and blurred, although Sevilla took oil out of their few arrivals with goal number 21 of the course -15 in the League- En-Nesyri, when he headed a great center from Suso two minutes before the break, and in the second the Sevilla fans generated opportunities to increase their income, which did not happen until 1989, with the goal of Mudo Vázquez, against an Elche who never gave up.
In a duel with disparate objectives, which was presented as a magnificent opportunity to secure their fourth place for the Andalusians and to move away from relegation for Alicante, Seville and Elche faced it with sensitive losses that were noted from the beginning.
At the premises,
Aleix Vidal
, the midfielder
Joan Jordán
and the Brazilian central
Diego Carlos Santos were
absent due to suspension, plus two other strongholds such as the Brazilian
Fernando Reges
, the anchor in the midfield, and the Argentine winger
Lucas Ocampos
, due to discomfort.
Eleven days after their 2-1 triumph against Sevilla, in a terrible match for the Sevillians, Elche also appeared in this new appointment without full-back
Alberto Barragán
, Argentine
Emiliano Rigoni
and veteran forward Nino due to physical problems, with what the Colombian
Helibelton Palacios
made his debut
on the right.
A boring first part
The first half was boring, very balanced, with hardly any clear chances, with Elche pressing very well and exhibiting claw to control a sleeping Sevilla and without ideas, which could cost them dearly in two ads from Argentines
Lucas Boyé
and
Guido Carrillo
.
However, the lack of clarity and verticality was common to both teams, intense, but not at all brilliant and more concerned with disrupting their rival's specific attempts in a bad match.
Suso Fernández
tried with a shot from the front at the edge of the first half hour that went slightly off track, as did Carrillo and Fidel Chaves from Huelva, also from afar, and they ran into a
very safe
Moroccan goal
Yassine Bono
.
However, the panorama changed two minutes before the break, when Suso took his quality and put a magnificent cross at the head of the Moroccan En-Nesyri, in a vein of successes, so that he scored 1-0 in one of the few clear arrivals of an erratic Seville.
In the resumption, the Lopetegui team, without any brilliance and with more pragmatism than other things, did come out with another verve, ready to sentence, but did not get it in the options available to
Óscar Rodríguez
, En-Nesyri or Rakitic, on a ball that hit
Edgar Badía
with his left
, due to the great success of the goal from Elche.
Elche, technically limited and who abused the centers to the area, stretched, but without success as it was conditioned both by its deficiencies in attack and by the reinforcement of the defensive framework made by Lopetegui with the first changes, although
Raúl Guti
, Lucas Boyé and the Argentine Pablo Piatti, who made his debut, tried in isolated actions.
Sevilla did not suffer, since Bono was always very safe, but, although Munir or En-Nesyri could score again, the relief did not reach the end, with Elche already overturned and leaving many spaces, when Mudo Vázquez, who ends his contract at the end of the season, rounded off the victory with a spur goal, with a subtle touch with his left foot, after one against
Óliver Torres
.
In the end, three points added by Sevilla to distance Real Sociedad to nine and Betis to 12, and to be three from the third, Real Madrid.
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