Seville (EFE).- Celta, who saw how from minute nineteen they played with one more footballer due to the expulsion of the Senegalese Pape Gueye but who went 2-0 unfavorably, managed to tie in the final stretch of the clash, a result in the Sánchez-Pizjuán that does not help him much to look at the European positions, and even less at Sevilla, who had in their hands to make an important leap for a permanence that they still have to fight for.
A goal from the Moroccan Youssef En-Nesyri and another from the Argentine Marcos Acuña made it 2-0, but in the 89th minute Miguel Rodríguez made it 2-1 and the Portuguese Gonçalo Paciencia made it 2-2 in the 93rd minute for the final tie in a match in which Acuña was also sent off with a direct red card for protesting to the referee after the visitor’s second goal.
Football between processions and sanction
An atypical match was presented in the Andalusian capital, coinciding with Good Friday and with up to seven brotherhoods in penance station at the same time as the appointment between Sevilla and Celticos took place, but also the Sánchez-Pizjuán had the also novel stamp to see two sectors of the Gol Norte stand uninhabited due to a closing penalty that had weighed since 2017 and that had to be fulfilled in this match.
This did not detract from the importance of sports, with a Celta in a good moment of play that seeks to forget to look down and make European accounts and a Sevilla by José Luis Mendilibar, who made his debut at home and started off on the right foot in Cádiz (0-2), who also wants to put land in the middle with the relegation places.
The Basque coach already had more to choose from after recoveries of injured players such as the Brazilian Marcao Teixeira, the Dutch Karim Rekik or the Argentine Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gómez, as well as the return after four sanctioned matches of the Brazilian Fernando Reges.
The player from Vigo, the Portuguese Carlos Carvalhal, for his part, decided on the Peruvian Renato Tapia to take the place of a player who is fundamental in the scheme, the young Gabri Veiga, who was absent due to having to serve a penalty for accumulating warnings. .
The visitors, faithful to their style, did not wrinkle and were intense in their pressure to take away the prominence from the locals, who did not want to risk it and used direct play to get closer to the goal defended by Iván Villar.
Expulsion at 19 minutes
In this dynamic of two teams that were studying, a very transcendent play came for the course of the match, since Gueye, who had seen a yellow card very quickly for sticking out his arm in front of a wall, at nineteen saw the second one for a stomp on former Sevilla player Iago blades.
The Andalusian team was short of troops very soon and also somewhat unfocused due to a situation that the Galician team wanted to take advantage of, as could happen shortly before half an hour if the French central defender Loïc Badé is not attentive on the goal line .
It was Celta who had the ball, but Sevilla gradually adapted to the situation to restructure itself on the field, and what they sought was to hide behind and get some recovery to go up on counterattacks.
En-Nesyri, in one of these counters that ended in a corner kick, finished off very well with a header when the game died down in the first half and made it 1-0 with which he started the second, in which Carlos Carvalhal took from the start to the American Luca de la Torre by the Argentine Franco Cervi, who had seen a yellow card shortly before the break. Celta had a lot of time to redirect the situation and assert that they were with one more man on the field, in addition their coach gave him entry to the Portuguese striker Gonçalo Paciencia to be, together with Aspas and Swiss Haris Seferovic, another benchmark in attack, to the point that the Portuguese found himself with a stick in a shot that could become 1-1 shortly before the seventy minute of play was completed.
return to the marker
Sevilla backed down more and more as the game went by and they looked tired in the fight to maintain the result, but Mendilibar moved the bench to give air and after the eighty minute mark the locals surprised again, this time with a spectacular Acuña’s kick with which the ball entered stuck to the stump of a post.
Thus the game entered its final stretch with the surprising 2-0 and a Celta with all their gunpowder on the pitch to reconvert the situation, and thus Miguel Rodríguez, one of those who left shortly before, put the 2- 1 that gave a lot of uncertainty in the extension, to the point that Paciencia equalized with a precise header before the game ended, not before the referee also sent off Acuña with a direct red card for addressing him.
- Datasheet:
2 – Seville: Dmitrovic; Jesus Navas, Badé, Gudelj, Acuña; Fernando, Pape Gueye; Suso (Montiel, m.73), Lamela (Óliver Torres, m.61), Bryan Gil (Telles, m.78); and En-Nesyri (Rafa Mir, m.78).
2 – Celtic: Iván Villar; Hugo Mallo, Aidoo, Unai Núñez, Javi Galán; Carles Pérez (Miguel, m.77), Tapia (Paciencia, m.61), Beltrán (Óscar Rodríguez, m.77), Cervi (De la Torre, m.46); Blades and Seferovic (Larsen, m.77).
Goals: 1-0, M.43: En-Nesyri. 2-0, M.81: Acuna. 2-1, M.89: Miguel Rodríguez. 2-2, M.93: Patience.
Referee: Valentín Pizarro Gómez (Madrid Committee). He sent off Sevilla’s Pape Gueye for a double warning (minutes 6 and 19) and also his teammate Acuña with a direct red card (m.95) for addressing the referee. In addition, he showed a yellow card to the visitors Carles Pérez (m.13) and Cervi (47+), and to the locals En-Nesyri (m.43), Navas (m.63) and Telles (m.83).
Incidents: Match of the twenty-eighth day of LaLiga Santander played at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán in front of 30,778 spectators. The Sevilla stadium served a sanction that came from January 2017 for insults from the stands in a Cup match against Real Madrid, for which two sectors of the North Goal could not be occupied.
Anthony Gutierrez
