The team of Sampaoli sleeps in the second place to wait for Barca thanks to a practical victory against a Valencia that deserved something more.
Without having one of his best nights, Sevilla maintains the rhythm of the League with a victory over Valencia that allows him to rise momentarily to second place in the standings and wait for the result of Barcelona. Sampaoli's team took a dislike of Tuesday in this same scenario with the defeat against Juventus and pulled a great effectiveness against an opponent who deserved at least the tie and who weighed as a slab a self-goal of Garay. Sevilla, on the other hand, found in the last play of the match a saving hand of Sergio Rico, who avoided the tie of Gayà when already had been extended even the time of prolongation.
Sevilla felt uncomfortable from the first minute. Prandelli's strategy was fruitful every time his rival wanted to bring the ball up. With a good structure of pressure in advance zones, closing lines of pass to the exit of ball of the Sevilla defender, this one was in difficulties with Sergio Rico in not few occasions before the rest. With that and with real danger to the ball stopped, the Valencia planted its beach bar in a stadium that until recently was a fortress but whose bolt has jumped in the last two appointments of Seville, well it is certain that before two great like Barcelona before the Parón liguero and against Juventus in the Champions League.
The obsession to take the ball from behind clashed with the coordinated Valencia pressure, which could well bear fruit in a ball that did not control Parejo well when Rami handed it in the area to beat without opposition to Sergio Rico. It was the best chance of the first half of a Valencia that also frightened with strategy plays and some good center of Cancelo. Meanwhile, the impotence of Sevilla had already made the wind music in Nervión, which could only attend a warm shot, far and crossed Franco Vázquez before the intermission. Yes, the Sevilla fans claimed a penalty for a swipe at Vitolo that Del Cerro Grande, with good judgment, did not concede.
After the break, Sampaoli sought to have more connection with the men above and remove the center of the field of suffocation to which Valencia submitted with the entry of Kiyotake and Japanese, unpublished in recent days and on which Even speculated that he could go out in the winter market, was the launcher of the play that would put the Andalusians ahead. Received the ball in three quarters of field, was delayed a few meters and threw a ball to Vitolo so that the canario surpassed to Siqueira and put a ball to the area that to Vietto did not give time to finish off. Garay, with the hip, disregarded Diego Alves and, unintentionally, put ahead a Sevilla that had not thrown between the three poles. The goal spurred the Sevilla fans, who immediately asked their players for an effort that after the wear and tear of the Champions, could not do. The Valencia, thanks to its pressure to the Italian, was again gaining ground to the sound of a Parejo that was growing by minutes. In this way, Prandelli also gave the reason the changes, as Munir, almost fresh out, was ready to finish the first a great pass to the gap of Cancelo.
At Seville it was very uphill to generate numerical superiority before a Valencia bullfighter that was growing in the cut. In this way, it had to be in a strategy play as he would get the winning goal. And the protagonist was again Nico Pareja, who as Juve, caught a loose ball on the edge of the area to put it next to the stick. Valencia's desperate start was able to bear fruit, but it was not awarded, as it met with a colossal Sergio Rico who fired a dry shot of Dani Parejo and deflected, already with time, a shot at the bottom of Gayà.
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