Sevilla succumbed to Borussia Dortmund, or rather, to an Erling Haaland who puts Lopetegui's chances of qualifying in Chinese. An assist and two goals from the Norwegian destroyed the locals in a first half in which the sevillistas identity signs did not appear at any time.
Sevilla promised them very happy, since their bad start to the game had a reward instead of punishment. Borussia Dortmund suffocated with their pressure the exit of the ball by Lopetegui's men, who did not have much possession. Nevertheless, a recovery of Fernando ended up at the feet of Suso, who cheated by preparing the shot with his left foot, broke Sancho, shot with his right and He ended up scoring a goal thanks to Hummels' final deflection.
Only nine minutes had passed and what should have been a blow to the morale of a team as irregular this season as Borussia Dortmund, it was not by any means. Terzic's men continued to be much more comfortable with the ball, peering into Bono's area and, now, Haaland appeared. Because the tie was signed by Dahoud with a beautiful shot to the squad from outside the area, but the ball reached his feet thanks to the power of the Norwegian, who neither Escudero nor Jordán managed to stop.
Each team accumulated a shot on goal and a goal. The effectiveness was not going to vary, unfortunately for a Seville that did not know how to stop Haaland. On this second occasion, the striker caught the ball in the center of the field, left without anyone being able to or knew how to stop it, made the wall with Sancho and beat Bono. The faces of the Sevilla players were a poem, Lopetegui was screaming and the film painted very black.
And it was going to get worse, since the game seemed to be great for too many Sevilla footballers. The surprising thing is that two of the most noted were two veterans like Rakitic and Papu Gómez, protagonists of an absurd loss in midfield that left Haaland, again, alone in front of Bono. And as is customary for him, he added another goal to his account. Makkelie whistled the break and the scoreboard indicated a 1-3 as fair for Borussia as it was blushing for Sevilla.
The feeling was that the tie had been tremendously great for the Nervionense team. Messy, not knowing how to go under pressure and with unheard-of flaws when combining. Something had to be done and Lopetegui's decision was to put cement in the center of the field giving entry to Gudelj by a wildly misguided Rakitic. Fernando delayed his position to change to a three-center drawing and center the position of Papu Gómez. The best example of the limited success of this bet is that ten minutes later a triple change was made that gave entry to the pitch to De Jong, Munir and Óliver instead of En Nesyri, Suso and Papu Gómez.
Sevilla began to sing a little more, partly because of the spirit that Oliver put in, but mainly because the Germans renounced possession to try to sentence, more if possible, to the counter. And he could do it, but Óscar was going to have the clearest chance, Lopetegui's last change, with a foul that crashed into the post in the absence of a quarter of an hour.
The stopped ball of the former Leganés was the main argument from Sevilla in the final minutes and his boots the goal that kept the flame of illusion minimally alive was going to be born. A center with music came to De Jong, who defined a touch. Borussia trembled but in Nervión they lacked the breath of a stand that other nights would have carried their own to the comeback. It was not so. Haaland was too much for Sevilla.