He Sevilla has qualified this Thursday for his seventh quarterfinal of a competition, the Europa Leaguewhich they won in their six previous appearances in the penultimate round, thanks to a resistance exercise in the field of Fenerbahçe, who won by an insufficient 1-0.
Despite the fieryness at the start, the Turkish team hardly worried the sevillistas in the first half, perhaps discouraged by the early injury to their star forward, the Belgian Michy Batshuayi, who had to be evacuated on a stretcher after suffering a muscle injury shortly after fifteen minutes.
The midfield of the Sevilla controlled possession in the first actalthough he did not create danger due to the low depth of Rakitic, slow in his position as a false left winger, and the only shot on goal in the first forty minutes was an insidious chip from Yuksek that Dmitrovic saved.
A long sequence of possession by Fenerbahçe, however, freed Kadioglu on the right wing, whose cross was intercepted by Alex Telles, with his back turned but guilty of a wild swing that prompted the signaling of a penalty converted with a lot of phlegm by the Ecuadorian Enner Valencia.
The early stages of the second half were terrifying for a Spanish team that almost saw the tie tied on two almost consecutive occasions, a long-range parabolic shot from Guler that grazed the post and a swing by King from the penalty spot that she went high.
In the 54th minute, after a shot from Valencia that hit the post, the match was interrupted for five minutes due to objects being thrown from the stands into Dmitrovic’s areaone of which hit the Serbian goalkeeper’s skull, causing a small gap.
The final stretch of the game, including a very long discount of nine minutes, was agonizing for a Sevilla that only fired once damagingly, After minute 90, a free kick by Lamela repelled the post, and he limited himself to defending his meager income against the attacks of the Ottomans.
Enner Valencia and King had chances to tie the tie and a shot from Zajc that bounced off Sevilla’s Fernando Reges, also misleading Dmitrovic was about to force the extensionbut the truth is that Fenerbahçe lost the night without knowing how to pierce the iron defense of the visitors.
