Requiem for a dying Seville that says goodbye to Europe
The decomposition of Sevilla reaches the bones that support a club that has been dying for too long. The symptoms have been detected for a long time but no one has found the remedy. He improved slightly and won a Europa League with which to heal wounds, but far from recovering, the illness became chronic.. The defeat in Lens, as bitter as usual, not only leaves you out of the Champions League, a place where the Sevillistas have never been comfortable, but it expels you from their fetish competition, from the balm. The Europa League champion does not even get to play it. [Narrative and statistics (2-1)]
You can see in the field and in the offices the inability of everyone to lift the dying.. In the League there is still time to revive but Europe runs over. Without winning a single game there are no second chances, not even on the bench. Diego Alonso, with two Cup victories, cannot hold his own at the head of a team that does not respond to his stimuli.
Sevilla clung to this last match like someone clinging to the edge of an abyss looking to catch their breath to raise their leg and climb onto solid ground.. He intimidated throughout the first half without finishing. Rakitic tried with a shot that the Samba goalkeeper saved, Salas with a corner kick that En-Nesyri could not comb at the far post and Sevilla's dominance was. They did not wrinkle because they could not. It was salvation or death while the French needed one point to secure third place.
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They became less conservative upon returning to the locker room, but Sevilla responded with a shot against Pedrosa's crossbar.. Even so, Diego Alonso's team was cold without finding any cracks to hurt. That's when the field steepened. Soumaré ran over Medina in the area and Frankowski beat Dmitrovic from the penalty spot. First shot on goal for the French and first goal.
Sevilla had half an hour left to turn the score around and it started with a double penalty. Medina grabbed En-Nesyri and the referee once again signaled the maximum penalty. Ramos mimed a ball that, ahead of time, Samba saved. He had wanted to secure the veteran central defender, but on the second attempt he once again exhibited his panenkazo. It was a big game or a goring and he knew it better than anyone.
With the tie, the people of Seville scored in the final 10 minutes in which Ramos, once again putting his chest forward, picked up a rebound on the penalty spot that went over his head before paying for so much daring. A robbery on the wing launched Lens' counterattack that left Fulgini hand in hand with Dmitrovic and Sevilla, expelled from their promised land.