City come back against a very tender Sevilla

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The pass from De Bruyne to Julián Álvarez in City's second goal can mark, for example, the stark distance that exists today between the Premier League champion and a Sevilla team that said goodbye to the Champions League with a defeat.

It was enough for Pep Guardiola's men to squeeze a broken and weak team in the second half, incapable of getting the ball from behind and that kept what City wanted alive in the match.

Sevilla's turnovers were scandalous.

A symptom of weakness, of a small team unable to handle the ball and that was also not solvent when it came to defending.

At City they enjoyed 17-year-olds like Lewis, who debuted and scored in the Champions League.

Competition from which Sevilla says goodbye giving away goals and losing players like Marcao due to injury.

All on the eve of a derby and in relegation positions.

Jorge Sampaoli's team, determined to get the ball from behind, gave away the first and third goals to a City that did not need to push to overcome with amazing ease an unrealistic score at half-time with Mir's goal.

Sevilla's determination to get the ball from behind without the necessary quality for it was striking.

And it also puts the focus on the strange approach of Sampaoli, who does not hit the key to revive a very affected team.

MNCM.

City

3

Grealish (Rodrigo, min. 45), Stefan Ortega, Gündogan (Bernardo Silva, min. 57), Rúben Dias, Mahrez, Laporte, Rico Lewis (Cancelo, min. 85), Foden, Sergio Gómez (Josh Wilson-Esbrand, min. . 69), Cole Palmer (De Bruyne, min. 69) and Julián Álvarez

SEV Seville

1

José Ángel Carmona, Montiel, Rakitic (Joan Jordán, min. 67), Papu Gómez (Suso, min. 45), Marcao (Gudelj, min. 46), Rekik, Marcos Acuña (Alex Telles, min. 45), Rafa Mir , Isco (Lamela, min. 57), Bono and Delaney

Goals

0-1 min.

30: Rafa Mir.

1-1 min.

52: Rich Lewis.

2-1 min.

73: Julian Alvarez.

3-1 min.

83: Mahrez.

Referee

Orel Grinfeeld

There were positive aspects of Sevilla at the start on the rainy night in Manchester.

A team that played against the Premier League champion with their minds set on the derby, without a doubt, with a strange approach and a tremendous risk with a very advanced Bono, but that at least had the stamp of competitiveness in the goodbye to this Discreet Champions made by the Andalusians.

The problem of analyzing these positive aspects offered by Sevilla is to know to what extent City's apathy influenced their development, as they played with a team full of substitutes and their minds set on who knows where.

The footballer who surprised the most in Sevilla's new system was Mir.

Attached to the right wing, the attacker was hungry and proud to vindicate himself with speed and verticality.

Mir had up to three occasions before taking advantage of City's relaxation in defense.

He completely finished off just one corner to surprise Ortega, the debutant goalkeeper for the English team in the Champions League.

City, playing excruciatingly slowly, hardly created any danger for a more or less well-placed Sevilla at the back.

Of course, the absurd risk when taking the ball from behind gave City some options.

Ruben Dias and Grealish took advantage of two bewildering situations for Sevilla, which, however, managed to reach half-time with a 0-1 lead and added bad news, Marcao's muscle injury, who had to be replaced by the reserved Gudelj.

City was far superior in the second half.

Guardiola's men already took the game seriously.

Players such as Rodri, Bernardo Silva or De Bruyne entered, but it was Sevilla themselves who were giving away to facilitate the English champion's comeback with goals from Lewis, Julián Álvarez and Mahrez, who limited themselves to taking advantage of the catalog of errors offered by the Andalusians .

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