Spain – Betis qualified for the King’s Cup quarter-finals by defeating Seville 2-1 in a match that will go down in history with Seville’s Joan Jordan as a sad hero, as the match was suspended on Saturday when the Catalan team was. The midfielder received an impact on the head of a crossbar thrown from the stands when Betis’ team had just drawn.
In the resumption of the match on Sunday from the 39th minute, it was Betis who witnessed the goal again, with a goal by Sergio Canales in the 73rd minute, a sufficient entry for Verdeblancos to skip the round.
The match was planned as a final between the two eternal opponents, given that one of them is excluded for one match, one of them will be excluded from the tournament, and also came two months later and a week ago Seville won 0-2 at the same stage in the La Liga match.
This is how he was shown on Saturday in his debut, despite the fact that Betis was more aggressive and superior to the players of Seville, despite the fact that it was the guests who came up on the scoreboard, the only time they got, a wonderful goal from Argentine Alejandro ‘Papu Gomez’ .
But the logic was achieved in the 39th minute, after four goals after the goal of Seville, when the Frenchman Nabil Fekir equalized with a direct shot from a corner kick, the so-called “Olympic goal”, which caused the imbalance of the young Seville goalkeeper Alfonso Pastor. Beginning with the injury of Moroccan Yassine Bounou with his team in the African Cup and Serbian Marko Dmitrovic with a physical decline.
It was the last game of the match on Saturday night and on that Sunday, seventeen hours after being suspended due to the impact received from the stands by Joan Jordan, Julen Lopetegui was unable to count on the Catalan midfielder but brought the central defender back from the stands. French Jules Conde and Argentine left back Marcos Acuña.
In Betis, Chilean Manuel Pellegrini took out Senegalese right-back Youssef Sabali in this return to Hector Bellerin, in which the player who arrived last summer from Girondin de Bordeaux, played his first minutes with Verdeblanco after overcoming a serious injury that occurred in the pre-season.
With this, he took Sevilla out of the center of the field, as the match remained after a thought goal, and the remaining six minutes were played to complete the 45 regulations for the first half plus another five of the extension granted by Basque referee Ricardo of Burgos. Bengochia.
In that period, Betis wanted again to control the situation, although Seville, unlike what was seen on Saturday, also looked for the ball, but did not have many minutes until the referee’s whistle to prove it.
The second half started with a home and away match, with a balance of power and Seville won with integer numbers with the presence of Acuña, in which Mexican Jesus “Tecateto” Corona played his first minutes in Spanish football when he replaced him. Striker Rafa Mera.
The match passed without great chances to score in the two areas, but in a quick local exit the ball came from the right side to Sergio Canales, after a pass from the Portuguese William Carvalho, and penetrated deep until he hit a difficult shot that reached it. He did not respond well to Alfonso Pasteur.
And Betis led to the imbalance of the tie with two goals to one, and with a little more than a quarter of an hour to complete the ninety minutes, he sought to control the situation against an opponent who had no choice but to advance urgently towards the Portuguese goal, Rui Silva.
Sevilla managed to force extra time after 88 minutes of play, but Conde’s header ended up blocking the crossbar and all hopes of Lopetegui’s team were gone.
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