WE SAY GOODBYE! Thank you very much for having accompanied us in this Sevilla victory in Alava. Football continues tomorrow with LaLiga and Copa del Rey. A hug!
THE LION OF MONTREAL. Yassine Bounou has once again demonstrated his success by stopping penalties and the Moroccan international has saved three of the eight shots as a Sevilla goalkeeper in all competitions.
IMPORTANT TRIUMPH. Sevilla achieved two wins in a row in Mendizorroza for the first time in their history in LaLiga, a victory that catapulted them into the fight for the title.
FINAL! FINAL! FINAL IN MENDIZORROZA! Sevilla take the three points of the Vitoria venue thanks to goals from Youssef En-Nesyri and Suso González. Despite the defeat, slight improvement in this new Alavés de Abelardo.
Youssef En-Nesyri also leaves and Franco Damián Vázquez, El Mudo, enters.
Julen Lopetegui scratches for a few seconds and takes Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre, AKA Suso, from the field of play, who scored the winning goal, and Óliver Torres enters.
Penalty missed by José Luis Sanmartín Mato, Joselu, the first to miss in LaLiga. Previously, the German-Galician forward had scored both, one against Atlético de Madrid and the other against Cádiz.
STOP! STOP! BONUS STOP! The Moroccan goalkeeper hits the shot from the Galician striker who stops the ball and saves both points.
PENALTY! PENALTY! PENALTY! Maximum penalty decreed in favor of Alavés for a hand within Jules Koundé's area.
Yellow card for Jesús Navas for protesting the penalty. Clear hand in modern football.
Substitution in Alavés, a fighter Tomás Pina retires as always and enters the great babazorro captain, Manuel Alejandro García Sánchez, known throughout Araba as Manu García.
GOAL CANCELED TO SEVILLE. The referee De Mera Escudero cancels Ximo Navarro's own goal since he previously hit En-Nesyri's hand.
JOSELU! JOSELU! JOSELU! Alavés was about to score through the former Newcastle player with a powerful header inside the box after a sensational serve from Rubén Duarte that narrowly missed.
Julen Lopetegui takes a worker Joan Jordán off the pitch and takes Nemanja Gudelj out to defend the powerful passing game of the Vitoria team.
Yellow card for Youssef En-Nesyri, Sevilla's first in this match. Stellar in attack and also very supportive in defense as has been shown in this action.
SEVILLA ANSWERS! Good caracoleo from Suso, who goes into the area and hits the ball with his right hand but goes very wide. The Sevilla team wants to close the victory with a third goal.
JOSELU DE CABEZA! Very powerful but focused corner kick launched by Duarte and the German-Galician striker finished off with his head from the penalty spot but caught Yassine Bounou well.
Yellow card for Pere Pons for a hard tackle. The third of the match and the third for Alavés. Abelardo wanted intensity in his players and they are responding in this variable.
And yet another change. A Luis Jesús Rioja who has gone from less to more leaves and José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo, AKA Jota, enters. Magic for the three-quarter zone of the Vitoria attack.
Another change in the Vitoria ranks. Edgar Méndez, the scorer of the match for Alava, leaves and Deyverson Brum Silva Acosta enters to try to give war to the for now impregnable defense formed by Sergi Gómez and Koundé.
Abelardo Fernández also moves his bench and retires a Martín Aguirregabiria who has not been able to progress as he usually does and Borja Sainz, a more offensive player, enters.
First change in the game, Lucas Ocampos leaves and Luuk de Jong enters, which will cause En-Nesyri to start from the left wing in that trident also formed with Suso and the Dutchman to go to the attack point.
HISTORICAL NAVAS. 550 games defending the Sevillista elastic. A figure that has only been able to reach the sensational now right back and Los Palacios duende with the Seville team.
Yellow card for Edgar Méndez, the second for the Vitorian team in the match and the fourth for the Canary Islands in this league edition. Too tough in his entry on Lucas Ocampos.
First yellow of the match, for Florian Lejeune for a hard tackle. The seventh that the French center-back receives in this league edition, more than in any other campaign in the competition.
SAVE FERNANDO! Corner kick launched from the right side of the Vitorian attack that Rodrigo Battaglia heads at the near post but takes the Brazilian midfielder under the same goal line.
THE SECOND TIME BEGINS! No changes in either team so far. Alavés need to react and the entry of Deyverson Silva could be crucial.
A LEFT HAND BARREL. Suso González has scored seven goals in his LaLiga career – four with Sevilla and three with Almería – and six of them have been from outside the area – three and three.
But Alavés reacted, managing to equalize thanks to a strategy play riveted at the first post with a header by Edgar Méndez after a throw-in, the third goal achieved in this way in LaLiga 20/21.
Sevilla struck first through En-Nesyri at 171 seconds into the match, the fastest for the Andalusian team in this league edition.
VITORIAN DOUBTS. Alavés have conceded two goals in the first half of a LaLiga match for the second time this season and for the first in Mendizorroza.
REST IN MENDIZORROZA! Sevilla go to the dressing rooms with a momentary victory thanks to goals from Youssef En-Nesyri and Suso González, the latter one of the best goals of this season.
RAKITIC TRIES IT! Good counterattack from the Sevilla team that ends with a right hand from the Croatian midfielder who stumbles on an opponent and the ball goes to a corner kick.
Ten minutes for the conclusion of this first half and Alavés tries to recover the sensations that had led them to generate some dangerous approaches to the Sevilla area.
Joan Jordán's third assist in LaLiga this season, one more than in the past in full with the Seville team.
SUSO GOAL! Deportivo Alavés 2-1 SEVILLA FC. Tremendous lash with his left foot from the elegant Andalusian midfielder from outside the area that sneaks through the entire squad of the goal defended by Fernando Pacheco.
The equalizer continues in Mendizorroza. Little time from Lucas Ocampos, very isolated in that left part of the Sevilla attack, and absolutely nothing from Ivan Rakitic, the one in charge of moving the game of Lopetegui's team.
In these last moments of the match, Alavés is the team that, without dominating possession too much, does encounter dangerous situations with more assiduity, at least, approaches.
Well, after the crazy start of the game, the script of the clash returns to its course, with a dominating Sevilla, who swings the ball from side to side looking for the morpheus effect in the Vitorian table, very retracted.
Ximo Navarro's first assist in LaLiga this season. In total, the Granada-born defender has achieved six goals in his career in the top flight, three with Alavés and one with Las Palmas and two with Almería.
GOOL FROM EDGAR MÉNDEZ! DEPORTIVO ALAVÉS 1-1 Sevilla FC. Play from the right wing of the Vitorian team that ends with a center to the area that bounces too much, no one clears it and the canary appears at the near post to beat Bono with a head.
Hard blow for Alavés, who after the 5-0 conceded in the Copa del Rey against UD Almería in the Mediterranean Games, needed to reinforce their defensive proposal but not much less. Abelardo's anger.
Assist from Jesús Navas, who achieved his fourth assist in LaLiga this season, one of the defenders who has distributed the most goal passes in this league edition.
EN-NESYRI GOAL! Deportivo Alavés 0-1 SEVILLA FC. Clamorous error from the Vitorian defense, which does not clear a center by Jesús Navas that ends up in the boots of the Moroccan striker, who after a first attempt in semifallo beat the goalkeeper from Badajoz to empty goal.
FIRST NOTIFICATION! Hanging ball for the career of Youssef En-Nesyri that hits the ball with power but without precision. Room for all the Julen Lopetegui set.
THE SHOCK BEGINS! The captains of both teams are Fernando Pacheco from Vitoria and Jesús Navas from Seville. The referee of the clash is the daimieleño Isidro Díaz de Mera Escuderos.
THE 22 LEADING PLAYERS ARE ALREADY! Alavés wears their gala kit, with the commemorative shield of the centenary that will take place this Saturday, while Sevilla is completely white passion.
SEVILLISTA POWER. Sevilla have only conceded 15 goals in their first 17 LaLiga 2020/21 matches, their lowest figure at this stage of the season in the top flight since 2008/09 when they finished third (also 15).
Alavés have lost their last two LaLiga games and can lose three in a row in the competition for the first time this season.
HISPALENSE OBJECTIVE. After their victory at Mendizorroza in September 2019 (0-1), Sevilla can achieve two consecutive away victories against Alavés in LaLiga for the first time in their history.
Alavés have not won any of their last five matches against Sevilla in LaLiga (2E 3D), remaining unmarked in three of them. His last league triumph against Sevilla dates back to January 2018 in Mendizorroza (1-0).
WITHOUT DIEGO CARLOS. Low due to coronavirus, the Brazilian center-back is replaced by Sergi Gómez, the only novelty that Julen Lopetegui introduces with respect to the victory against Real Sociedad in the last league match.
For his part, Julen Lopetegui comes out with his classic 1-4-3-3 with Yassine Bounou, Jesús Navas, Sergi Gómez, Jules Koundé, Marcos Acuña, Joan Jordán, Fernando Reges, Ivan Rakitic, Suso González, Youssef En-Nesyri and Lucas Ocampos.
DEFENSE OF FIVE. The main novelty that Abelardo introduces with respect to the Machín system is the return to the defense of five. Laguardia, Ximo Navarro and Edgar Méndez are the novelties of the Asturian coach.
Let's go with the lineups. Abelardo Fernández comes out with a 1-5-4-1 formed by Fernando Pacheco, Martín Aguirregaribia, Ximo Navarro, Víctor Laguardia, Florin Lejeune, Rubén Duarte, Edgar Méndez, Tomás Pina, Rodrigo Battaglia, Luis Rioja and Joselu Mato.
GOOD AFTERNOON! Welcome to a new game in this exciting edition of LaLiga. Abelardo Fernández's new Alavés welcomes Julen Lopetegui's intrepid Sevilla in Mendizorroza.