LaLiga Santander | Sevilla – Athletic

The locals were better in the first half and a goal from Óliver Torres after three minutes gave them an advantage, although in the second Athletic was superior and as a result of this came a goal from Mikel Vesga (m.73) to put the final 1-1.

Sampaoli arrived to give a radical change to the Andalusian team after his dismal start both in LaLiga and in the Champions League, which led to the announcement of the dismissal of Julen Lopetegui on Wednesday night after the 1-4 conceded against Borussia Dortmund.

The Argentine, with only two training sessions with his new squad, made a radical change in the lineup, with up to seven novelties in relation to the initial team used by Lopetegui against the German team, although the club pointed out that one of them, that of Yassine Bono, was due to some inconvenience by the Moroccan goalkeeper.

Yes it was a great novelty the presence of the Brazilian central defender Marcao Teixeiraone of the reinforcements this season but unprecedented until now due to injury and who played his first minutes as a Sevilla player with the great responsibility of assuming hierarchy in a very fragile defense and against a rival with a great punch, as Athletic demonstrated with his sixteen goals in the first seven days.

The team came out Ernest Valverde according to the script, with the lines very advanced and the intention that the rival was not comfortablebut the locals, the first time they approached, were quick on the right and the Argentine Gonzalo Montiel put in a ball that Óliver Torres did not miss, alone, after three minutes of play.

This start of the game could have been worse for the Biscayan formation, because after six minutes the Argentine Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gómez he made the goalkeeper Unai Simón shine and shortly after Isco Alarcón and the young Frenchman Tanguy Nianzou were close to the goal in the same play.

It was a quarter of an hour of great Sevilla intensity that Athletic began to control, at least so that the opponent did not have as many spaces to approach the area and also to start putting Serbian goalkeeper Marko Dmitrivoc in trouble, as in a shot by Álex Berenguer in the 24th minute.

That’s how it went tilting the field towards the local area with a visiting team with control of the ball and longer circulations so that Sevilla did not have the option of surprising, despite the fact that once again Papu Gómez met Unai Simón in the final stretch of the first period to avoid a 2-0 draw.

He left Valverde’s team most active in the second half and Sampaoli’s somewhat more reserved with the 1-0, so Athletic’s first attempts soon arrived, with his midfield, forcing the Argentine coach to move the bench and put in his compatriot Marcos Acuña and the youth squad Jose Angel Carmona.

The people of Bilbao, also already with Ander Herrera and Mikel Vesga on the fieldredoubled their efforts in search of an equalizer and Vesga achieved it with a shot from afar in the 73rd minute.

In the final stretch of the game, the locals had no choice but to look up again.

Then the confidence that Athletic has in their game was seen and also the instability of the current Sevilla, and the visitor’s comeback seemed closer, although in the extension the locals also had a very clear chance through Lamela, who He was brought down by Ander Herrera (sent off for this action) on the edge of the area when he was about to shoot with everything in his favor to score.