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Monchi, general director of Sevilla, jumped onto the pitch to greet the coaching staff and the players after his team's agonizing triumph.
A victory based on a good first half against a very weak Espanyol in defense and an exercise in resistance in the second, when the Andalusian team withstood a real siege from their rival with one less player due to Lamela being sent off in the 84th minute. Espanyol, with two very clear chances in an eternal extension of 100 minutes, deserved a draw on two clear chances from Joselu and Cabrera.
Sevilla breathed because the three points give a lot of air to a questioned Julen Lopetegui.
ESPSpanish
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Álvaro Fernández, Brian, Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Óscar Gil (Rubén Sánchez, min. 75), Braithwaite, Vinicius, Edu Expósito (Dani Gómez, min. 58), Javi Puado (Melamed, min. 87), Darder and Joselu
SEV Seville
3
Bono, José Ángel Carmona (Jesús Navas, min. 72), Gudelj, Kike Salas, Marcos Acuña (Alex Telles, min. 45), Isco, Óliver Torres (Nianzou Tanguy Kouassi, min. 66), Joan Jordán (Rakitic, min. 72), En-Nesyri, Fernando and Lamela
Goals
0-1 min.
0: Lick it.
0-2 min.
25: Jose Angel Carmona.
0-3 min.
44: Jose Angel Carmona.
1-3 min.
48: Joselu.
2-3 min.
61: Braithwaite.
Referee
Guillermo Cuadra Fernandez
Yellow cards Óscar Gil (min. 12), Lamela (min. 28), Joselu (min. 41), Marcos Acuña (min. 46), Vinicius (min. 57), Fernando (min. 93) and En-Nesyri ( min 95)
Red cards Lamela (min. 83)
It is very difficult to deduce that this result is the beginning of the comeback for Sevilla, a team in full decline, which found air in the emergence of a youth squad, José Ángel Carmona, scorer of two goals playing on the right side and assisting in the first to Lick it.
The game itself was a real puzzle.
A young 20-year-old defender who was recruited urgently by Lopetegui was the mainstay of a team that had been unhinged, with their coach on the wing and who scored on the first attack play.
Desperate, Lopetegui turned to Carmona and Kike Salas, central defenders of the subsidiary, to compose an unprecedented defense with Gudelj.
And Sevilla won from the first minute.
More information
Video of the goals of Espanyol-Sevilla
The Andalusians were better in the first half, with an unappealable 0-3.
A bit of a penalty from Joselu at the stroke of half-time and another from Braithwaite gave Espanyol a breather, which vigorously sought a draw against the Numantine resistance of a Sevilla team that lost the game and defended as best it could with a defense of three central defenders to win a victory worth its weight in gold.
Lopetegui was saved and his team reaches four points after a bad start of one of 12 in four games played.
Espanyol does not take off from the hand of Diego Martínez.
The Catalan team has lost the games it has played in its stadium against Rayo Vallecano, Madrid and now Seville.
The Andalusian team resumes the competition next Wednesday with the Champions League duel against Copenhagen.
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