Sevilla 0-Chelsea 4 | Giroud puts Sevilla in their place

Rotations were announced in the previous one and go if there were. In fact, more than expected. Serve as a fact that in Sevilla Franco Vázquez was a starter so far this season. In addition, Lopetegui gave rest to Koundé, Fernando, Jordán, Munir, Ocampos and De Jong. Only Navas, Diego Carlos and Rakitic were those who repeated with respect to the eleven most used starter this course. Lampard was not far behind, giving rest to his forwards Ziyech, Werner and Abraham, as well as Kanté. In short, Sevilla jumped with seven new faces compared to their last league game while Chelsea did it with nine.

And if there were news in the eleven headlines, the surprises continued after the warm-up. The Czech Tomas Vaclik felt some discomfort so he left his position in goal to Alfonso, goalkeeper of the subsidiary who made his official debut at age 20 in a historic match for the club. It took half a minute for him to make his first intervention to clear a poisoned cross by Havertz from the right that sneaked into the goal.

Chelsea gave two warnings before taking the lead with the third. ANDl Sevilla did not know how to get on the field from the start and practically defended watching a Havertz driving that ended at the feet of Giroud, who scored at pleasure. Lampard's men had it very easy and decided to give the ball to Sevilla to kill the counter. However, the locals armed themselves with patience and by touching and touching they were arriving at Mendy's goal, although with little clarity. The most remarkable thing was a commotion in the London area after a good ball from Oscar from set pieces that ended with the VAR reviewing a possible penalty per hand that was not granted.

In this way, the first part was spent with the attempts of Seville to look into the rival area with little success. Chelsea, meanwhile, found highways every time they decided to go against it, which luckily for Lopetegui's men it was not too many times. The extreme rotation had failed, especially in midfield, and only the calm with which Lampard's men took the game and some good intervention from Alfonso prevented the advantage from being greater on the scoreboard at halftime.

He was aiming to change the script in the second half after two sparks from Navas in attack but it was a mirage. If in the first act it took Giroud eight minutes to make blood with the weak Sevilla defense, this time it took a minute more to get rid of Sergi Gómez and define with a soft Vaseline before the departure of Alfonso. If there were few signs to encourage optimism, the uphill got even steeper.

Lopetegui looked for solutions on the bench, but these were more aimed at continuing to manage the breaks of the most used players than to seek the comeback. Chelsea, and more specifically Giroud, wanted more and the French striker had the pleasure of closing his scoring triplet with a great header against which the debutant Alfonso could do nothing.. In fact, the debutant was the main culprit that the win was not greater. A very ugly blur to leave almost finished a group stage that Sevilla will conclude as second classified.