In an exciting duel played on the tenth matchday of LaLiga, Real Madrid achieved a 1-1 draw against Sevilla. The goal for Real Madrid was the work of Dani Carvajal, who contributed to the tie in favor of the white team, after the merengue player David Alaba scored in his own goal. The match was played this Saturday, October 21, at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium, which featured the presence of Sergio Ramos in the local team and also the debut of Uruguayan coach Diego Alonso in the Seville team.
It was an important test for Italian Carlo Ancelotti’s team after a two-week break for national team matches and before next week they play the classic against Barça at the Montjuic stadium, which they intended to reach at the top of the board.
But Sevilla, with Ramos as the main protagonist when facing nineteen seasons later against a team in which he won everything during the sixteen seasons in which he played, was not there to give anything away due to the complexity of their classification, which even led to the dismissal of José Luis Mendilibar.
In this context, the visiting team came out as the protagonist and after three minutes Vinícius Junior was close to surprising the Norwegian goalkeeper Orjan Nyland, who in the following play hesitated to block a ball and the Uruguayan Fede Valverde managed to put it in the goal, although a Previous offside by Englishman Jude Bellingham annulled the goal after seeing it in the VAR.
Subsequently, attempts alternated in one area and another, such as a counter by Vinícius, a shot by the Swiss Djibril Sow that went close to a post stump and other replicas by Ancelotti, first with a deflection by Sergio Ramos that he avoided the 0-1 and then in another shot by the Brazilian striker in which he could not surprise Nyland.
As the first half ended, Sevilla wanted to touch the ball a lot from the beginning of the second with the idea that the opponent would not make it difficult for them, but Madrid pressed well, left no space and was attentive to the robbery to attack Nyland with speed and danger.
After the changes came the first goal, but it was from Sevilla, in a lateral cross in which the Austrian central defender David, in his attempt to clear under pressure from the Moroccan Youssef En-Nesyri, surprised his goal, although four minutes later ( 78) Carvajal, with a great header at the near post, put the tie again.
In this way, the meringues maintain their leadership in the table with a total of 25 points, followed closely by Girona (22) and Barcelona (21), these two teams still pending to play a match. Meanwhile, the Rojiblanco team is in position 13 with a total of 9 units to its credit.
Source: Depor
2023-10-22 06:42:52
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