real Madrid He came back in the second half from a game that he had lost at half-time 2-0 and that left him at 2-3 with a last goal from his great savior of all time, the Frenchman Karim Bezema, who achieved it in the 92nd minute, which leaves the team caressing the title of LaLiga and Sevillawith their first loss at home so far in the championship, in a tough fight to stay in positions ‘Champions‘.
The Sevilla team was much better in the first half and hence the result, while the madridistas beat their rival in the second and scored those three goals that could be worth a title after a game that was also surrounded by arbitration controversy, with a possible Expulsion in the first half that did not come from the visitor Eduardo Camavinga and also with a goal disallowed by Vinícius Júnior with the score 2-1 in the 74th minute.
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The match was considered as an opportunity so that LaLiga would not be sentenced virtually if Real Madrid were defeated Sanchez-Pizjuan, Given the mathematical possibilities that some rival could catch up with him in the final stretch of the tournament, especially Barcelona, which has a match pending to play postponed on its day against Rayo Vallecano and which in the particular coefficient is ahead of those of the Italian Carlo Ancelotti.
The chances of the madridistas failing a lot is unlikely and the comfortable advantage they have in the table means that they are close to the title, but visiting Sevilla was one of those dates in which difficulties were expected against a rival that had presented itself on this day as the only undefeated in the category at home and the one with the best numbers in its stadium -eleven wins and four draws-.
In addition, the physical wear and tear caused by his pass to the semifinals against English Chelsea last Tuesday, with extra time included, and the injuries of the Frenchman Ferland Mendy and the Brazilian Marcelo and the sanction of the also Brazilian Casemiro, added uncertainty.
The sevillistas, for their part, are in the midst of fighting to maintain the ‘Champions’ positions in which they are installed practically the entire course, but now, with the tight classification, they also need points to not lose their objective and for this they have entered in this final stretch with the infirmary much clearer.
With Dani Carvajal on the left side on a changed wing and Lucas Vázquez on the right, Ancelotti opted to reinforce the midfield with four men, including Frenchman Eduardo Camavinga, and leave the responsibility up front to Benzema and Vinícius, and at the start they had to tighten to counteract the predictable thrust of the locals.
The French striker had a first attempt between two presences also eager for his compatriot Anthony Martial in front of Belgian Thibaut Courtois’s goal, although in that pulse it seemed the Seville with a little more presence, which resulted in 1-0 after twenty minutes.
It was a direct free kick on the edge of the area launched by the Croatian Iván Rakitic, who took advantage of the fact that the Brazilian Éder Militao opened up on the barrier to add his fourth goal in LaLiga, but the Madrid defense did not react to the goal and got lost again four minutes later for an internship by the Mexican Jesús ‘Tecatito’ Corona to culminate in an empty goal by the Argentine Erik Lamela in the 2-0.
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Lopetegui’s men were more intense, very focused on recovery and that surprised Ancelotti’s men, who had a hard time finding the Croatian Luka modric to generate the game in the vicinity of the goal defended by the Moroccan Yassine Bonowho after half an hour intervened without problems to the first shot on goal by the opponents, Benzema.
However, that was a warning that Real Madrid began to have more of the ball but against a rival who did not stop working and who got very angry when he considered that Camavinga had to see a second yellow card in an action against martial that ended with the French replaced by injury leaving his position to Rafa Mira.
That set, at 37 minutes, misled something to the Sevillian formation because the Madrilenian now did press in the final stretch of the first part, which lasted four minutes but in which the scoreboard did not move.
At the start of the second half, the Madrid coach took Camavinga out of the way and put in the Brazilian Rodrygo Goes with the mission of reinforcing the attack and, as the first period ended, the visitors were in other ways, to the point that Benzama was close to scoring but was prevented by Bono.
The Moroccan goalkeeper did not avoid shortly after Rodrygo made it 2-1 five minutes after the restart, his first in LaLiga.
Real Madrid was now the dominator against an opponent that was no longer intense and that did not have one of its highlights from the first half on the field, the Argentine Papu Gómez, who stayed in the locker room at half-time predictably injured.
There was a lot to play for and the madridista siege was total, with which Lopetegui brought in two players to try to change the dynamic, the Serbian Nemanja Gudelj and the Swedish Ludwing Augustinsson, and Sevilla managed to weather the storm, although another controversial move now came , this time against Madrid interests when the referee considered, after consultation with the VAR, that Vinícius had controlled the ball with his forearm before his shot on goal.
The goal did not go up but Nacho Fernández’s did shortly after when, on the first play in which he intervened after entering the field, he connected to the back of the local goal and made it 2-2 in the 88th minute, which redoubled the intentions of the visitors to achieve the comeback, which was achieved by Benzema in the extension without time for more.
– Data sheet:
2 – Seville: Bonus; Jesús Navas, Koundé, Diego Carlos, Acuña (Augustinsson, m.62); Joan Jordan, Rakitic; Lamela (Ocampos, m.72), ‘Papu’ Gómez (Óliver Torres, m.46), ‘Tecatito’ Corona (Gudelj, m.62); and Martial (Rafa Mir, m.40).
3 – Real Madrid: Courtois; Lucas Vázquez (Nacho, m.81), Militao, Alaba, Carvajal; Kroos, Modric (Asensio, m.81), Camavinga (Rodrygo, m.46), Valverde; Vinícius and Benzema (Mariano, m.95).
Goals: 1-0, M.21: Rakitic. 2-0, M.25: Lamella. 2-1, M.50: Rodrygo. 2-2, M.82: Nacho. 2-3, M.92: Benzama.
Referee: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Balearic Committee). He admonished the visitors Camavinga (m.31), Nacho (m.78) and Mariano (m.98) and the locals Martial (m.39), Diego Carlos (m.80) and Óliver Torres (m.83) .
Incidents: Match of the thirty-second day of LaLiga Santander played at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium before 40,650 spectators.
