Sevilla points to Valencia

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On Friday night, in one of the great avenues in the center of Valencia, the Gran Vía Marqués del Turia, a father and his son went down to walk the dog.

It was nine at night and the man was pulling the Golden Retriever's leash while the boy was so happy in his Valencia shirt with the name of Cavani printed on the back.

Suddenly, without seeing it coming, a man made a caress to his head.

The boy turned and only saw someone walk away.

His father smiled and told him that it was Pipo Baraja.

The boy, perplexed, turned around again.

Each one went their way.

Baraja would go to dinner and think about how to put his fang in Sevilla, who had gotten a valuable draw the day before at Old Trafford, and his father and son went the other way.

One, with the innocence of childhood, without knowing what a descent is;

the other,

VALValencia

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Mamardashvili, Foulquier, Cenk Özkacar, Mouctar Diakhaby, Lato (Vazquez Alcalde, min. 68), Andre Almeida (Marcos André, min. 79), Moriba Kourouma, Gayá, Yunus Musah (Samuel Lino, min. 58), Cavani (Hugo Hard, min. 69) and Samu Castillejo (Javier Guerra, min. 79)

SEV Seville

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Dmitrovic, Jesús Navas, Loic Bade, Gudelj, Rekik (Montiel, min. 68), Lucas Ocampos, Joan Jordán (Rakitic, min. 68), Bryan Gil Salvatierra (Lamela, min. 91), Fernando, Suso (Marcao, min. 76) and En-Nesyri (Rafa Mir, min. 91)

Goals

0-1 min.

54: Loic Bade.

0-2 min.

75: Suso.

Referee

Carlos del Cerro Grande

Yellow cards Lucas Ocampos (min. 41), Joan Jordán (min. 51), Montiel (min. 80), Hugo Duro (min. 85) and Gudelj (min. 92)

Red cards Moriba Kourouma (min. 84)

Those two generations, anguished but different, came together again in a Mestalla stadium where people begin to suspect the worst.

First, because the classification says so, indisputable, and, second, because they see it on the field, where Valencia has serious problems disguising its rotten smell.

José Luis Mendilíbar entered the Mestalla with a very clear idea: to play with his opponent's fear, the fear of relegation that grips many of the players.

Like the central ones, stiff as masts, or the wings, which in many sets do not know whether to go out or wait.

Sevilla, who had just come off a beating on Thursday to come back against Manchester United in England, did not care if time ran.

They had a five-point margin over the relegation zone -now eight- in which Valencia is stuck, a team that started with intention and ended up unraveling midway through the first half.

Without the subtleties of Nico or the verticality of Kluivert -both injured- the Valencian team became more and more asymmetric because Gayá, on the left wing, but more advanced than usual, with Lato covering his back,

he was the only one capable of contributing some ingenuity.

Not much, just crosses from the wing that almost never ended with Cavani, who regained ownership after Almería's setback and left in the second half without justifying his fame as a scorer.

Sevilla, undefeated since Mendilibar arrived, had some defensive mechanisms that helped them block their opponent's attacks.

And patience, a lot of patience.

The latest precedents for their opponent, the draw against Rayo and the defeat in Almería, left a conclusion: there is always a moment when Valencia disconnects.

It was only necessary to wait.

The reward came shortly after the start of the second part, as in Almería.

Badé, who had fallen at the exit of a corner, waited a few tenths of a second on his marker, who was lying on the ground, then got up, took the rebound and scored.

More nerves.

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More anguish.

The public ended up being outraged shortly after, when they considered that Fernando had committed a penalty by hitting him with the ball inside his area.

Del Cerro Grande went to consult him and determined that no.

The play, controversial, was the closest to the goal that Valencia was in the second half.

The decision ignited the public, who ended up believing shortly after, in the 74th minute, with the sentence of Suso, the second Andalusian goal.

The advantage concealed Sevilla's main setback, which was left without the only left-back it retained, Rekik.

But this ended up being a minor problem against a deranged team that ended up with ten after Moriba was sent off for an ugly tackle and which still has three more games left against direct rivals in the coming days.

Some, however faintly, keep the faith, like those kids in the shiny T-shirts.

The most veteran, those who have already experienced a decline, fear the worst outcome.

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