Sevilla finds the cure in the Europa League with a win against PSV
The goals from En-Nesyri, Ocampos and Gudelj allow the people from Seville to start their fetish competition on the right foot
MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla began their journey in the Europa League this Thursday with an important victory (3-0) in the first leg of the round of 32 against the Dutch PSV after an offensive display by the people from Seville to extend their good dynamics at the Sánchez-Pizjuán and finally find its consolidation after months of anxiety and instability.
The team led by Jorge Sampaoli, who knew how to put out the relegation fires in LaLiga with four wins in the last six domestic games, once again made the Sevilla fiefdom a stronghold, adding their fifth consecutive victory at home. The goals from En-Nesyri, Ocampos, who completed his best night in the Sevilla shirt after his return in this winter window, and Gudelj were enough to put an end to the hopes of a poor PSV.
The Sevillians changed the chip to live up to their fetish competition -they have won 6 Europa League and UEFA- against the team led by Ruud van Nistelrooy, who threatened to surprise at the beginning, but ended up submitting in their own field against a local team that once again showed its best version.
Thus, Sevilla was overwhelmed at the beginning by a Dutch team that came out more plugged in from the start. In fact, the first serious approach came from the visitors when Saibari forced Bono to shoot reflexes to avoid the first of the night. This, added to Badé’s injury after 15 minutes, completely changed the plans of a team from Seville that had a hard time reacting.
Even so, the Spaniards, who went from less to more, began to turn the game around with greater depth through the bands of Jesús Navas and Bryan Gil. Both monopolized all the offensive football of a Sevilla that ended up finding the prize of the goal on the brink of rest. It was precisely the Sevilla captain who served a lateral cross to En-Nesyri, who scored his tenth goal of the season from the heart of the area.
Already in the second half, Sampaoli’s men wanted to take advantage of the emotional blow to maintain their inertia and continue pressing a Dutch defense that saw how five minutes after returning from the changing rooms they fit in again. Lucas Ocampos, recently incorporated, took a work of art out of his sleeve to score the second of his own. The Argentine punctured a ball with his back to the goal and with it he turned to connect a volley that hit the post before entering the goal.
Good minutes from the Sevilla team that from there brought out the roller to finish sentencing the clash shortly after. This time it was Gudelj who took advantage of Sevilla’s momentum to knock out the Dutch after making good on a backheel from Ocampos inside the area. A hard blow that definitively ended the hopes of Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men.
In addition, the control of the ball imposed by the sevillistas no longer gave options to a PSV that refused to give up so soon, but that did not scare. Although he was about to close the gap with Veerman’s shot at the post after 80′, the score did not move again until the final whistle.
DATASHEET.
–LINEUPS:
–RESULT: SEVILLA, 3 – PSV, 0 (1-0, at halftime).
SEVILLE: Bond; Jesús Navas, Badé (Fernando, min.16), Gudelj, Nianzou, Acuña (Montiel, min.70); Rakitic, Jordan, Bryan Gil (Ocampos, min.46), Óliver Torres (Lamela, min.70); In-Nesyri (Suso, min.62).
PSV: Benitez; Teze, Ramalho (Bishop, 90 mins), Branthwaite, Van Aaholt (Mauro Junior, 74 mins); Sangare, Til (Hazard, min.62), Veerman; Saibari (Mwene, 90 mins), De Jong (Silva, 62 mins) and Xavi Simons.
–GOALS.
1-0, minute 46. En-Nesyri.
2-0, minute 50. Ocampos.
3-0, minute 55. Gudelj.
–REFEREE: Radu Petrescu (RUM). He admonished Gudelj (min.59) and Lamela (min.89) by Sevilla.
–STADIUM: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.