Sevilla commits suicide against PSV but ties up with Diego Alonso

There is no end in sight to the hole through which Sevilla is sliding. It falls and falls again without anyone being able to stop the decomposition of a team incapable of rebuilding itself on the field and a club with cracks that are already structural. The mirage of the Europa League seemed like a balm for the wounds, but it failed to heal them. Sevilla committed suicide against PSV in a match that they had in their hands with a 2-0 and that escaped them after the blow of the stupid expulsion that Ocampos did not know how to avoid. From redemption to conviction in 30 minutes.[Narrative and statistics]

There is no one to wake up a team that rested on its laurels and that has only won two games in the last 19 it has played in the Champions League.. PSV's setback is double, because it could even leave them out of the Europa League. With the Sevilla families fighting for the presidency of the club and under strong criticism from the stands, the shame is seen on the pitch. Without the wand to find jewels in the market, the team has lost quality and the idea of football. The bench has become an electric chair and the decision has been increasingly risky and, in view of the results, wrong.

Four coaches in just one year and a fifth is being signed, although the offices deny it. Lopetegui, Sampaoli, Mendilibar and now a Diego Alonso unable to rid his men of a nervousness that grips them, but does not hold them responsible. The Uruguayan has only won one game of the eight he has coached and it was against the modest Quintanar in the Copa del Rey. Four points from relegation, the credit is running out with the visit of Villarreal on the horizon.

The evil of Sevillismo is not new, just one more step towards an abyss that it already crossed last season when it started with its worst streak in the last 41 years. The momentum of that comeback in Manchester (2-2) in their favorite competition, the Europa League, was the oxygen that saved them from drowning in the League. Now he doesn't even have that left.

Sevilla dropped just when they had managed to cling to the last hope of surviving in the Champions League. He held his nerve with a goal with Sergio Ramos' shin from a free kick at Rakitic's far post.. The prodigal son promoted the redemption that Sow was about to achieve, with a goal disallowed for handball, and En-Nesyri crashing a header against the crossbar. PSV was a shadow that could not find a way to harm a team that seemed to be breaking. Even less so when the second half started with a ball from Acuña behind the defense that the Moroccan did not waste.. A 2-0 and an extra life.

Decisive expulsion

Nobody expected that Ocampos would see two stupid yellow cards that left the team in an inferior position with more than half an hour of play left.. And there Sevilla and all of Nervión trembled. “Keeping one less killed us,” Ramos admitted.

In two minutes, with his back to the goal, Saibiri began the comeback. Diego Alonso lost En-Nesyri due to injury and his bench movements did not prevent disaster. A shot by Vertessen in the 81st minute was pushed into the net by Gudelj.

The task was to tie that tie that allowed hope to be maintained. They didn't even know how to do that. With time up, Nianzou forgot to make a tactical foul that would stop Bakayoko and prevent his cross from being finished off by Pepi and consummating the tragedy.

PSV had not won away from their stadium in the Champions League since 2017 and they did so at the Pizjuán. With the victory, the fuse of the dynamite that Sevilla put in its foundations is lit.