Celta, in the debut of Claudio Giráldez on their bench after the dismissal of Rafa Benítez, attacked the Sánchez-Pizjuán by turning the score around in the second half (1-2), which represents a great step in their fight for permanence, the complete opposite of Sevilla, which stops dead and will still have to suffer to maintain the category.
A goal from Youssef En-Nesyri in the eighteenth minute put Sevilla ahead at half-time. The Moroccan striker was substituted at the hour mark, at which time he was involved in a tense confrontation with his coach, Quique Sánchez Flores. Ocampos had to separate his partner and the coach so that the dispute did not escalate. On the field, Celta, with goals from Carles Pérez and the Norwegian Strand Larsen, came back in the game and made it 1-2 in a match in which they appeared better than the rival in many moments.
The event in the Andalusian capital came at the beginning of the countdown of the tournament, with ten games in which the objective is already beginning to be consolidated or diluted, which in the case of Sevillistas and Celticos is permanence in the category after a mediocre season .
After the day began on Friday with the defeat against Real Sociedad (2-0) of Cádiz, a team that marks the penultimate relegation position in the table, this match lost some drama, especially for a Celta that, Regardless of the result this Sunday, there would be a break for the national team matches outside the three cursed positions.
For Quique Sánchez Flores’ Sevilla, six points from relegation, there was an important option of taking the almost definitive step towards tranquility, but the rival, with the debut on the bench of the young coach promoted from the subsidiary, was to get within five of Cádiz, which he finally achieved.
It was the Galician team that gave the most impetus, dominating the ball and with quick triangulations that made the Andalusian formation retreat, which could be seen running after the ball and after a former Sevilla player like Iago Aspas, activated in the vicinity of the Norwegian goalkeeper Orjan Nyland .
But this disposition of the visitors also gave the locals the opportunity to have spaces on the counter and thus the Moroccan striker Youssef En-Nesyri was around the goal very quickly on three occasions, of which he took advantage of the last one by stealing the ball from Unai Núñez and beat Vicente Guaita by low.
The 1-0 score came before the first twenty minutes were up and shortly afterwards Celta had another setback when defender Javier Manquillo left the field after injuring his right wrist in a fall, so he was replaced by Carles Pérez.
Despite this, the Vigo team did not give up and pushed hard in search of a tie, as demonstrated by the eight corner kicks and the good options that the Norwegian striker Larsen had against his compatriot Nylan, always very attentive, which meant that the match went to half-time with the score 1-0.
At the beginning of the second half Aspas, Larsen and Hugo Álvarez had chances to score, without reward, but those actions showed that Celta came out as they finished in the first period, with better ideas than an opponent who relied a lot on their defense and who created little in attack. Despite this, there was a Sevilla response, twice from Isaac Romero and once from the Argentine Lucas Ocampos.
The Argentine was replaced along with En-Nesyri, who clashed with Sánchez Flores. That bench situation was not a good prelude for Sevilla, who saw how in seven minutes, from 71 to 78, Celta turned the score around and in the remainder of the match they did not have the power to react to recover at least one point.
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Seville: Nylan; Jesus Navas, Sergio Ramos, Kike Salas, Coin (Lamela, m.89); Ocampos (Suso, m.61), Gudelj (Pedrosa, m.75), Soumare, Oliver Torres (Jordan, m.75); Isaac Rosemary and En-Nesyri (Lukebakio, m.61).
Celtic: Guaita; Mingueza, Unai Nunez (Franco Cervi, m.76), Carlos Dominguez (Starfelt, m.68); Manquillo (Carles Perez, m.28), Fran Beltran, Hugo Sotelo (Jailson, m.68), Hugo Alvarez (Damian, m.76); Aspas, Bamba and Strand Larsen.
Goals: 1-0, M.18: En-Nesyri. 1-1, M.71: Carles Pérez. 1-2, M.78: Larsen.
Referee: Francisco José Hernández Maeso (Extremeño Committee). He admonished the locals Sergio Ramos (m.29), Acuña (m.29), Jesús Navas (m.56) and Soumaré (m.93).
Incidents: Match of the twenty-ninth day of LaLiga EA Sports played at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium in front of 36,544 spectators. Before the match, a series of activities were carried out within the LaLiga ‘VS RACISM’ campaign.
