The Seville, with great suspense and some haste, he took a giant step forward in his goal of qualifying for the round of 16 of the Champions
League by adding the three points before the Krasnodar after a spectacular comeback, since with one man less he raised a 0-2 against.
Those of Lopetegui, tied at seven points with Chelsea, who thrashed the Rennes, they dominate group E behind the English on goal difference. By the way, the Andalusians break the dynamics of three consecutive defeats in the League, although it does not clear all the doubts about their moment of play.
Surprise start
The Seville he was totally surprised in a first half in which the speed of the Russians on the counter and the defensive mistakes were harmful to his interests. The whites were seen at 21 minutes of play with a 0-2 against and entangled in a sea of doubts.
And all when he began to paint the night well with what seemed like a promising start. Ocampos made show off Safonov with a zapatazo in minute 7 and immediately an apparent penalty of Suleymanov Joan Jordán was pointed out by the German Felix Brynch, but the VAR he checked it and it finally didn't run. Sevilla prowled the Russian area, but the unexpected came when a foul on the edge of the area at the first quick exit of the visitors nailed it in the squad itself Suleymanov.
Not happy with that, the Krasnodar hit again by taking advantage of a blunder of Kooundé, who was entertained in the area and instead of clearing did a bad control that forced him to give a penalty to Marcus
Berg that the VAR alerted and that would end up converting the Swedish forward.
A 0-2 in Champions It is an important slab, although there was time ahead, and more when in full effort to overcome and after the hopeful so much of Rakitic when he headed a Joan Jordán center that shortened distances before the break Jesús Navas saw the direct red card when stopping another dangerous one against the Krasnodar at fault and as the last man.
Lopetegui had already moved the bench punishing Escudero and Kooundé, negative protagonists in both goals of the rival, and after the break he sought to activate the offensive game of his with En-Nesyri, who would end up being the hero of the night by scoring the two goals that would make the comeback a reality.
Salvador En-Nesyri
First I would warn Rakitic with a shot to the crossbar, although it would be in the 68th minute when a mistake by Kaio was taken advantage of by the Moroccan to beat decisively to Safonov. Sevilla had already saved a point but had enough time to go for the plenary session even with one less player on the field. And it was En-Nesyri again who sang bingo when taking advantage of the rejection of a ball to the post sent by De Jong in the service of a free kick. 3-2.
Sevilla had made the move to come back, after which Lopetegui restructured his defense and equipped himself with three centrals (he debuted Rekik), finally struggling with a final arreón of the Krasnodar that made the locals suffer in the last minutes of a crash with too many shocks.
Seville: Vaclik (2); Jesús Navas (2), Koundé (1), Diego Carlos (2), Escudero (2); Gudelj (2), Joan Jordán (2), Rakitic (3); Munir (2), Ocampos (2) and De Jong (2). Acuña (2), Óscar Rodríguez (2), En-Nesyri (4), Fernando (3) and Rekik (sc)
Ent. Julen Lopetegui (3)
Krasnodar: Safonov (2); Ramírez (2), Martynovich (2), Kaio (1), Chernov (2); Olsson (2), Gazinskiy (3), Utkin (2); Suleymanov (3), Berg (3) and Sabua (2). Spertsyan (2), Sokorin (3), Claesson (2), Wandersson (3).
Ent. Murad Musaev (2).
Referee: Felix Brynch (German) 2