A header from Carvajal makes Diego Alonso’s debut on the Sevilla bench bittersweet (1-1)
MADRID, 21 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid tied (1-1) this Saturday during their visit to Sevilla FC, thanks to a goal from Dani Carvajal that neutralized David Alaba’s initial own goal and had put the Andalusian team ahead, in a match corresponding to matchday 10 of LaLiga EA Sports and in which Diego Alonso made his bittersweet debut as local coach.
The commotion began soon at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium, with a goal disallowed by Fede Valverde in the 4th minute, after a corner kick and in which Sergio Ramos, Real Madrid legend and now honored returnee, had involuntarily collaborated. to the Seville team.
The ball from that corner ended up in the right corner of the local area, where Valverde touched a header and assisted Jude Bellingham, who at that moment was retreating from the small area. The English playmaker came quickly and, overwhelmed by the Sevilla goalkeeper, fell to the grass after lightly touching the ball in an attempt to control it.
Valverde himself had followed the play and made a low cross-shot that tripped on Sergio Ramos’s boot, which caused the ball to go directly to the far post of the goal and enter when it bounced there. Despite the Madrid celebration, referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea annulled the entire play due to Bellingham’s offside.
A few centimeters of his left foot were in an illegal position, enough for the action to be illegal and also to inflame the spirits of a duel, already full of clashes in recent seasons. And the decibels increased more than four minutes later, with a confusion that ended in another worthless goal.
Thanks to a divided ball in the Real Madrid defensive zone, Antonio Rüdiger gave a small blow to Lucas Ocampos when clearing. Although he did not seem punishable, the referee stopped the game when he saw that the Argentine striker had remained on the ground in pain. However, some Merengues players created a counterattack against Rodrygo Goes’ sprint.
The young Brazilian winger, with class, avoided the exit of the Sevilla goalkeeper and gave the ball behind him for the arrival of Bellingham, who scored into an empty goal. Oblivious to the fact that everything was invalidated, the Englishman even celebrated that goal with his usual gesture of open arms.
Not even 10 minutes had passed and several ‘chickens’ had already been set up. In strictly football terms, Ivan Rakitic had Sevilla’s first big chance in the 24th minute; He went with a calm left foot shot inside the area that beat Kepa Arrizabalaga, but was cleared by Dani Carvajal with a header under the crossbar.
Immediately afterwards, Djibril Sow received a pass in the danger zone for the Madridistas, but he shot wide of the left post. With Diego Alonso’s pupils enjoying good minutes, the visiting team responded with a long ball from Rüdiger towards Vinícius Jr., who, behind the center backs, entered the local area and finished with the outside.
But the Norwegian goalkeeper Orjan Nyland, attentive to the mischief of the merengue ‘7’, caught the ball and with this he tempered his spirits to sign a certain truce before the break. Upon returning from the locker room, and after a timid Seville chance in Rakitic’s boots, Rodrygo emerged as a reference for Real Madrid with two almost consecutive approaches to Nyland’s goal.
The second of those attacks, in the 57th minute, was the most threatening due to a shot from the right side of the small area. Rodrygo made a formidable control and hit a low shot, which the Norwegian goalkeeper deftly deflected into a corner. That served as a prelude to Sevilla’s 1-0 lead, scored by David Alaba with an own goal (74′).
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Left back Marcos Acuña crossed into the area defended by Kepa, and Ocampos could not connect a shot at the near post. However, Youssef En-Nesyri was going to spike that loose ball, so Alaba tried to disturb that action; His marking was counterproductive, since the Austrian defender accidentally pushed the ball into his goal.
With hardly any time to savor the goal, Sevilla conceded the tie as a result of a lateral foul taken expertly by Toni Kroos. Directly at the first post, Carvajal jumped between Acuña and En-Nesyri; With pinpoint precision, the German midfielder’s assist was converted into a goal thanks to a powerful header from the Merengue ‘2’.
The local reply was in another header, the work of Sergio Ramos and which forced Kepa to ‘fly’. Exceptional action by the visiting goalkeeper and desperation by Sánchez-Pizjuán, whose stands pushed until the final whistle of De Burgos Bengoetxea. In stoppage time, Sergio Ramos himself enjoyed another header from a lateral foul, but he sent it up.
With time completely up, Kroos took a direct free kick from the top of the area, but Nyland caught that shot without problems and the game was extinguished. This tie left Carlo Ancelotti’s pupils with 25 points, still in first position in LaLiga, and placed Sevilla with nine points in the middle of the table.
DATASHEET.
–RESULT: SEVILLA, 1 – REAL MADRID, 1 (0-0, at halftime).
–ALIGNMENTS:
SEVILLE: Nyland; Navas, Gudelj (Bade, min.76), Branches, Coin; Horses (Lamela, min.87), Rakitic, Soumare; Ocampos, Lukébakio (Suso, 67 mins) and En-Nesyri (Mir, 87 mins).
REAL MADRID: Kepa; Carvajal, Rüdiger, Alaba, Mendy (Fran García, min.88); Tchouameni (Camavinga, min.67), Valverde (Modric, min.67), Kroos, Bellingham; Rodrygo (Joselu, min.79) and Vinícius (Brahim, min.88).
–GOALS.
1-0, min.74: Alaba (pp).
1-1, min.78: Carvajal.
–REFEREE: From Burgos Bengoetxea (Basque Country). He yellow carded Sergio Ramos (min.77), Ocampos (min.78), Sow (min.86), Soumaré (min.87) and Lamela (min.90 + 7) in Sevilla; and Vinícius (min.86) and Camavinga (min.90+4) at Real Madrid.
–STADIUM: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, 41,212 spectators.