MADRID, 6 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Betis Balompié has tied (2-2) at home this Thursday with the Vitória SC in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Conference League, with goals from Cédric Bakambu and Isco Alarcón for a Betic set that, in this way, must look for its ticket towards the next round in the back duel that is scheduled for March 13 in Guimarães.
The Benito Villamarín stadium was adorned to receive one of the outstanding teams in this third UEFA most important tournament. Not surprisingly, the Vitória had been second in the league prior to the sixteenth, only behind the Chelsea leader, and therefore later he was exempt from playing such playoff ‘.
Meanwhile, Betis had needed that toll, eliminating the Kaa Gent. And in the face of this new appointment, the thing for the Verdiblancos, dominators in the first half hour with two occasions from Bakambu; The first was a goal canceled offside and the second, in 22 ‘, a header outside after a center of Romain Perraud.
In the 37th minute the Portuguese had a huge opportunity to mark, following a filtered pass by João Saraiva with Picadita for Hevertton Santos, whose rule in the race already brushed the post. Before the break, the visiting team approached again with danger, through a center of João Mendes diverted to corner by the local rear.
But in the resumption, Betis soon advanced in a dried play. Isco passed to the left side for Perraud, who focused looking for Antony Santos; Then a defender cleared an acrobatics, Isco headed sideways, the ball touched on another defender of Vitória and Bakambu riveted that 1-0 almost on the same goal line.
Despite going up on the scoreboard, Manuel Pellegrini’s pupils did not settle and fit the goal of 1-1 when 51 ‘passed; João Mendes avoided an out of the left on the left, the action continued and João Saraiva received that ball on the front, was outlined and sent to the Bética Red a combined right that took height.
In the 61st minute, the Perraud-Bisc duplicer returned, focusing the 15-year-old so that the ex-miller would lower the ball with magic in the second stick, pass it to Bakambu and he finished off heel to the post, and spoiled his own rejected bocjarro in the small Portuguese area.
The Verdiblanca insistence had a prize in 75 ‘with the 2-1, goal of Tiralíneas that Pablo Fornals forged with a satin pass filtered from the right wing to Aitor Ruibal, who at the first touch also focused on grass of grass and Isco scored near the penalty spot with a powerful shot.
Of course, the players trained by Luís Freire reacted with the 2-2 in the final dessert, when Nélson Oliveira on his back and within the area he lowered in 81 ‘A pass by João Mendes; Before Natan’s marking, Oliveira turned and made a satin root that passed between the legs of the Bética defender until he sneaked crossed in the goal.