We do not know where the well of this tragic Sevilla is, expelled from Europe and questioned in LaLiga. They have never been able to tame Lens, another team in low times in the domestic league, which has found a minor consolation: they have snatched the remaining place in the Europa League from the Sevillistas.
In reality, the second continental tournament is somewhat orphaned now, since it will not feature Sevilla, champion in seven editions, all of them in this 21st century (and the last one, in the last year).
Diego Alonso’s project collapsed last night at the Bollaert-Dedelis stadium, the Lens cave (so large a stadium that it could accommodate 30,000 of the town’s inhabitants, and still have ten thousand seats left over), in the last half hour, when Soumaré knocked down Facundo Medina and Frankowski beat Dimitrovic from a penalty.
The 1-0 gave wings and arguments to the French and unnerved Sevilla, who were never going to regain their momentum, not even after Sergio Ramos’ equalizer, also from a penalty.
The people of Seville were persistent in added time, but they seemed short of resources (eleven casualties) and also of faith.
“We can leave proud, we have defended ourselves even coming with fifteen players, eight homegrown players,” Sergio Ramos said later.
They wandered around in search of a ball hanging in the area, who knows, Rafa Mir or Ramos himself could catch something, until the French knocked them down on a counterattack, already in the 96th minute, the work of Fulgini. There is no peace for Diego Alonso, Uruguayan coach, who owes too many explanations to his board, Sevilla is out of touch with him.
