Getafe got an important point (1-1) at the Benito Villamarín stadium in a match in which they beat Betis on a first-name basis and in which the intensity of the game was the protagonist between two teams that showed their desire to be in the top zone of the table to fight for European positions.

A penalty goal from Getafe’s Englishman Mason Greenwood in the seventh minute and another from Isco Alarcón for Betis, also a penalty in the 35th minute, made it 1-1 at half-time, a result that no longer changed in a match in which Up to four players, two from each team, had to retire injured.

There was a good opportunity for both teams to take a firm step towards the top when the halfway point of the tournament has already been passed and everyone wants to consolidate their objectives, which in the case of the Sevillian team is to be back in the next season. a continental tournament and in the one from Madrid to return to the fight for it.

Once the winter hiring market concluded, both teams also began this second stretch of the season with significant absences and doubts about how they would miss those players.

Betis no longer has the Mexican Andrés Guardado, the Brazilian Luiz Henrique, Borja Iglesias and the Spanish-Argentine Juan Cruz, while Getafe is missing the Honduran Anthony ‘Choco’ Lozano, the Turkish Enes Ünal and the Serbian Stefan Mitrovic.

The team coached by José Bordalás also had to control the physical exhaustion of facing their third game this week after beating Granada (2-0) and losing to Real Madrid (0-2) and from the start they won A big scare after two minutes, but the Frenchman Nabil Fekir, very close to the goal and the goalkeeper David Soria displaced, did not have the success to score.

Shortly after, the Brazilian Abner Vinícius gave Mason Greenwood a penalty and the Englishman converted it to 0-1, a play in which the Betic left back also injured his ankle and shortly after had to be replaced by Juan Miranda .

Chilean Manuel Pellegrini’s team came out after that play with great intensity towards the rival goal, but the Azulones put it in defense and also in mounting counterattacks, such as one that ended with a shot by Luis Milla and the ball repelled by the strain of a pole.

The one that did score was Betis, after half an hour and thanks to another penalty, this time scored by Isco Alarcón after the referee consulted the VAR about a challenge by Juanmi Latasa with the American Johnny Cardoso, one of the reinforcements of winter of the green and white team.

Thus came the new tie in a very intense match, which went to half-time after eight minutes of extension due to the continuous stops in the game due to the many fouls that occurred.

In the second half, Bordalás brought on his scorer Borja Mayoral from the beginning, who took the place of Juanmi Latasa, with which the Alicante coach gave the message that he was not satisfied with defending and that also meant that Betis did not come out too much. fluid towards the attack.

Pellegrini wanted his team to react and made a triple change with the Moroccans Ez Abde and Chadi Riad, who returned to the squad after their journey in the African Cup, and with Pablo Fornals, another of the winter reinforcements who enjoyed his first minutes after he arrived in Seville last Thursday night.

On the other hand, Isco had to leave the field, who asked for a change due to a muscle injury and was replaced for the final stretch of the match by the Portuguese William Carvalho, who in turn was also coming off a layoff due to a physical decline.

In these minutes it was Greenwood who made the stands nervous with his speed and danger to give Getafe a chance of victory, which did not arrive for the Madrid team; and that, like the rival, it had to replace two players due to injury, the Congolese Djene Dakomam and Jordi Martín.

1 – Betis: Rui Silva; Bellerín, Pezzella, Sokratis (Chadi Riad, m.66), Abner (Miranda, m.12); Johnny Cardoso, Altimira (Ez Abde, m.66); Assane Diao (Fornals, m.66), Isco (William Carvalho, m.82), Rodri; and Fekir.

1 – Getafe: David Soria; Jordi Martín (Angileri, m.95), Djene (Domingos Duarte, m.80), Alderete, Gastón, Diego Rico; Luis Milla, Yellu (Carmona, m.70); Mata (Aleñá, m.70), Latasa (Borja Mayoral, m.46) and Greenwood.

Goals: 0-1, M.07: Greenwood, penalty. 1-1, M.35: Isco, penalty.

Referee: Juan Luis Pulido Santana (Canarian Committee). He admonished the locals Sokratis (m.19), Miranda (m.40), Assane Diao (m.40), Isco (m.42), Altimira (m.53), Johnny Cardoso (m.60) and Rui Silva (m.89) and the visitors Gastón (m.45), Yellu (m.62), Djene (m.64) and David Soria (m.68). He was sent off with a direct red card for protesting a member of the Betis coaching staff in the 76th minute.

Incidents: Match of the twenty-third day of LaLiga EA Sports played at the Benito Villamarín stadium in front of 53,336 spectators. Players from both teams wore a green ribbon on one arm during the match as a sign of support for the fight against cancer.