Sevilla and Barcelona remain half in the null combat of Pizjuán

Under the rain. Between kicks and knees before the referee's collusion. With footballers skilled in guerrilla warfare marking the line for children. And the assurance that both teams were left halfway through their fight. Because Sevilla, in inferiority in the last section due to the expulsion of

and who ended up taking the rosary for the tie, lost a great opportunity to be taken seriously in the fight for the League. Real Madrid is five points away. And because Barcelona, ​​despite its good intentions, failed to deliver the blow that embedded it in the Champions League positions and confirmed the beginning of its new era.

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at sunset would have changed everything.

The first act did nothing but confront the realities of Barcelona and Sevilla, two teams that found themselves at a crossroads of uncertain destiny. The Catalans, given their youth, are as irreverent as they are tender. The people of Seville, much more mature and stony, run the risk of becoming a team that competes based on speculation, not on proposition.

header on goal

when the first half was already fainting had a corrective effect in the night. Because Barcelona,

aware

that the only way to make the group grow is by sending it to govern in the worst places, got used to playing in rival territory. This time he did it from 4-3-3, perhaps for fear that a band without a winger could punish

and Koundé, the latter forced by casualties to work on the side. Fernando, meanwhile, recoiled to the central position.

Gavi, heeled to the left and applied in his constant work of undercut, it was together with

who most tried to find

constant

at the front. The young Catalan striker is a delightfully impetuous boy, one of those who finish it off. It does not matter to him whether or not he is well profiled or having two or three defenders on top. Jutglà shows in his football the characteristics of the globetrotting boy who was never told to be the best, despite his own belief otherwise. That rebellious character, which cost him so many coexistence problems with his coaches, is tattooed in his game.

Sevilla, however, did not seem to be very concerned.

team has so many boards

that they don't mind being dominated during long stretches, as happened in their last win against Atlético. Especially if any episodic action, almost always plotted on the board, can be enough to tear the good intentions of the Catalans.

Rafa Mir clearly marked offside the first time the locals raised their chins. And the opening goal was found by Sevilla in their first corner in favor. The newcomer Abde should be responsible for following Papu Gómez, who was confused until he began to run through the area in parallel to Ter Stegen's goal. Abde was carried away without conviction. Jutglà got caught in the locks. And the Papu, so Guadianesque, so close to the curse of the misunderstood, finally executed with the art that is presupposed to him. He turned his body small and hit the ball with a dry blow that the goalkeeper could do nothing before.

The advantage of Sevilla, caught at half an hour, did not depress the Barcelona footballers, who decided to load the game even more on Dembélé. The winger tried as many times as he could, although the difficulties of a wet floor were joined by the effort put forth by the Sevilla players to impede their careers. Rekik and Papu hunted Dembélé from behind before the absenteeism of the match referee, Del Cerro Grande, disconcerting in many of his decisions and responsible for the game taking place in the mud. Dembélé began to think twice before going into the mountains.

Dembélé found himself more comfortable on the set piece. If he already gave Jutglà a goal from the corner against Elche, this time he showed the way to Araujo. The Uruguayan, the best corrector of the team, no matter how much his new responsibilities as a full-back compromise his bad foot, exhibited his aerial strength in the heart of Sevilla. Fernando, who is a rock, ended up turned into a scarecrow before the arrival like a freight train from Araujo. His header did not admit discussion on the way to goal.

Sevilla threatened to raise the pressure lines after the break.

Outside that Barcelona ended up intimidated.

But the expulsion of Koundé 25 minutes from the end made the locals think that the tie could be a good prize.

The French footballer did not admit that Jordi Alba faced him in the band.

And Koundé chose the worst way to answer, with a shot to Alba's face that forced the referee to send him to the booth.

Xavi sent his players for the game.

He pulled Nico out.

He even gutted his convictions with the Luuk de Jong stem.

But there was no way to knock down Sevilla in a null combat.

In which the only winner was who did not play.

Real Madrid can live more calmly.

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