SEVILLA 2 – GRANADA 1 I Sevilla dances for LaLiga

The time of a (virtual) April Fair that Seville has had to live far from the booths, hiding the rebujito in the sun, with improvised and furtive sevillanas in some square full of lanterns, ended at dawn from Saturday to Sunday. There have been no bulls either, but a dressing task was enough for Sevilla to defeat Granada (with suspense at the end, yes), mathematically certify the Champions League and get a bit and a little more into the fight for LaLiga dancing to the rhythm of Papu Gómez, fundamental in the two goals of the Nervión team.

De Burgos Bengoetxea joined the merriment with a tremendous piece of tip. The Basque referee had whistled the end of the match a minute earlier than indicated on the discount sign and then forced the players, many of them already in the locker room, to jump back onto the field to complete the remaining 60 seconds. Unheard.

Diego Martínez took cover after five defenses but came out brave, with intense pressure that overwhelmed the locals for a few minutes. Tickle, rather. Lopetegui had given his eleven a twist, without Jordán or En Nesyri, with De Jong and Papu Gómez, in the end the main protagonist of the match. Del Papu was the first dangerous shot, close to the squad, and also the Papu caused the penalty 1-0. He threw it and Rakitic transformed it (16 ') because the usual pitcher, Ocampos (the great start of the play belonged to him, by the way), he had failed his last two attempts.

The goal did not provoke the rebellion of Granada, impotent except in some set pieces. And the minutes of sevillista dominance, peppered with some dangerous shot from De Jong, would last until the break, when Diego Martínez began to shake the shaker of the changes in search of some reaction.

However, it was Sevilla that struck again. Again Papu tempered inside the area so that Ocampos (2-0, 53 ') put distance and will force Granada to leave desperately upstairs. Soldado, from a penalty via VAR (2-1, 90 '), and De Burgos put some suspense in the final stretch, but they did not end the Fair for LaLiga. That one continues, it will continue to be celebrated in the surroundings of Nervión.