Enner Valencia was on the verge of signing another unforgettable football day with the motto of Fenerbahçe. The Ecuadorian striker scored the winning goal from the penalty spot against Sevilla (1-0) in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Europa League this Thursday, but it was not enough to equalize the total score (1-2) or force extension.

The goal-scoring nose of Valencia was activated tonight in the 40th minute at the Ulker Fenerbahce stadium Sukru Saracoglu. He converted from the penalty spot.

Fenerbahçe put their trust in their stadium, their raucous fans and Valencia to try and overturn a 2-0 first-leg defeat at the Sánchez Pizjuán against the six-time continental title winners.

Valencia was responsible for opening the scoring after a foul by Alex Telles was sanctioned with a penalty. The ball hit the hand of Telles after a pass by Ferdi.

A shot from the bottom right by Dmitrović, who descends to the other side and cannot avoid 1:0 with the signature of the captain of the Ecuadorian team.

Valencia have scored eight goals in Fenerbahçe’s last four home games in all competitions; 27 goals in 34 games he played in the 2022-2023 season.

Sevilla suffered a lot to keep the result due to the fierce pressure of Fenerbahce, especially in the second half.

Buoyed by a 2-0 win at the Sánchez Pizjuán, Sevilla began to control the game against a Fenerbahce side looking for an equalizer but saw one of their strikers, Belgium’s Michy Batshuayi, pulled off the pitch on the quarter-hour mark with a hamstring problem. muscles.

Sevilla controlled the game for the first half hour, but from then on the game became a frenzy, which favored the Turks, who came dangerously close for the first time with a shot by Ismail Yüksek that was saved by Marko Dmitrović (32).

Everything started to get complicated for the Sevilla squad when English referee Michael Oliver called a penalty for handballing Brazilian Alex Telles, which Valencia converted into the first goal of the match (41).

That goal gave wings to the home team, who could go to the break even with the score tied, but Telles miraculously saved the Turkish shot (43).

Jorge Sampaoli’s team started the second half very nervously, and Fenerbahce had several chances to score a second goal (48, 49, 52 and 53), cheered on by their fans who were getting more and more excited to the point that the game had to be stopped because Dmitrović was hit object thrown from the stand (55).

Fenerbahce completely surrendered to Sevilla, and Valencia had a great chance to equalize, but Dmitrović saved the Andalusian team with a spectacular save (68).

Soon Norwegian Joshua King, Batshuayi’s replacement, tried, but his shot went wide (75).

After asking for a penalty for the knockdown of Susa (85), Sevilla touched tragedy again: Hakan was very close to forcing extra time (88), and King again had a discount (90 + 1).

The Spanish team had to struggle until the end after Erick Lamela failed to realize a free kick from the edge of the penalty area that would definitely destroy the tie (90+6).

The final whistle was blown at 90+9.

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