To the Real Betis they hit him where it hurts the most. It was not less than Seville FC in the derby, not even close, but they conceded their second league defeat of the year 2021, in which to date they had only given up in the final minutes against them. FC Barcelona in one of his ten games. The Sevilla FC He had just fallen before that same Barça in the League – also with Elche, which he receives on Wednesday in the last of the pending postponements – and Cup and before him Borussia on the Champions, leaving in Dortmund very good sensations but the victories box empty, quite the opposite of this Sunday, where the sensations were not to shoot rockets but he achieved the most important thing: victory, which distance in nine points -more the average- to the eternal rival and for the moment it removes the ghosts that hovered over the possibility that the fourth league place was in danger, since the Real society this Sunday and there are already six points that the Lopetegui the donostiarras, his immediate pursuers.
Football is like that. Many times it seems that you embroider it and you leave empty and other times you even want to accidentally. East Betis of Pellegrini came from winning four games consecutively, the last three in the final minutes at Alaves, Cadiz Y Getafe. This time he also had the tie in boots Fekir (94 ') in the last breath, or even in a bizarre play shortly before that was about to end with an involuntary goal by Borja Iglesias placeholder image (87 ’) from the ground, as marked Alfonso Pérez Muñoz -with his face- in the final of the Copa del Rey against Barça in 1997. But this was not the night of the Verdiblancos.
Everything could have been (but was not) different if Mateu it is decided to call a penalty of Bond to Channels After 8 minutes of the game, with 0-0, but the touch of the Sevilla goalkeeper on the Betic's ankle -with both hands- was not considered as such by the Valencian or by his countryman Martinez
Munuera, being one of those interpretable plays in which, whatever the referee points out, there will be those who agree with him and those who take it away. Just as there will be fans -most surely- who think that the Betis He was credited with a better result, both in this derby and in the first round, because in neither of them he was inferior to his rival, who takes four times the points in the aggregate of the two clashes and leaves the Betis satisfied of sensations but squalid of what really counts, the points, in this particular League that this Sunday fulfilled its 100th chapter in the First Division.