Betis, with a neat but unappetizing game up front, succumbed to a more spirited Bayer Leverkusen (4-0).
Wirtz's
talent
served to cloister the Green Whites in their own area, turning their attack into an island and their midfield into an unbuilt lot.
Not even
Fekir
, with desire and lightning in his boots, could balance the scale.
The goals weighed more than his picturesque choreography.
You have to go to parties convinced for excess. Betis lacked enthusiasm and let themselves be booed by a team that asked the DJ for better songs than they did. And that
Pellegrini's men
started well
, very active at the top, with
Willian Carvalho
with a certain self-confidence, with that football of his so fainted and unpredictable, with Fekir very fresh, asking for them all, associating himself on every inch of grass, with
Borja Iglesias
falling to the band right, eternalizing Joaquín's careers. A safe Betis without fear of the court that, as the night progressed, was withdrawing, leaning on the bar, avoiding the strobe lights, blowing his bangs with his hands holding his chin.
Bayer, more graceful, saw the revelry and jumped on Rui Silva's goal after the initial score. Miranda, risky on her climbs, turned her back into a wasteland.
Electric
Diaby
, ubiquitous Wirtz and
unassailable
Andrich
. Those of Gerardo Seoane began to play in harmony.
Adli
was very close
to scoring in the 19
th
minute, his shot surpassed Rui Silva but found Bartra, who prevented the ball from passing the lime when the German stand was already shouting the goal. Four minutes later, a
Frimpong
goal
was just disallowed by referee Anthony Taylor for offside. The danger was constant and Pellegrini's team gave a feeling of weakness, of boredom.
Fekir answered after a recovery in the spinal cord.
The Frenchman managed to shoot despite the harassment of three rivals.
Hradecky
, after a short stretch, repelled harshly down.
When it seemed that Betis resumed the pulse of the game, that the ball did not unravel at his feet, Fekir exceeded the dribble and lost the ball in the outside area.
The counterattack brought Wirtz straight to Rui Silva's plot.
He breathed, looked up, and saw Diaby, entering only from the right.
He bit her sweetly and his partner, faced with such a gift, and despite volleying with his bad leg, beat the Portuguese goalkeeper for his stick.
An insurmountable mountain
The break shook the visiting locker room.
Canales
and
Álex Moreno
entered to give joy to the game of the Verdiblancos. But before the pieces fell into place on the pitch, Diaby scored a devastating goal in the 51st. Hopefully, after a tangle in the area, with rebounds and scraps, her shot was deflected by a defender and slipped, chaotic, in the network that
Rui Silva
defended
. It was a mountain and the game. It was difficult to go up, it was risky to go down, the minutes passed in no man's land.
Fekir's free kick hit the crossbar in the 66th minute warmly encouraged his team, but the Germans soon responded with the speed of Adli and the clarity of
Demirbay
. Desperately, they reached Hradecky's goal, but the match was already decided. The punishment would increase. Bayer, despite their many casualties, were getting rid of Betis without suffering too much. In 86, the best of the game, Wirtz, claimed his prize with a goal on the boat early with the right after a precise pass from his teammate Diaby. In 89,
Amiri
decorated the win.
Forget Europe and focus on the derby, Pellegrini will have to write down on his agenda after a game that got muddy in the final minutes with a thong that put a sad finishing touch on one of those disastrous nights in which the best thing would have been to stay at home.
Fekir and Demirbay took to the streets after a brawl in added time.
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