Athletic cannot with Sevilla and says goodbye to Europe (1-0)

Euskaraz irakurri: Sevilla Athletic baino gehiago izan da, eta zuri-gorriek ezin izan dute Europara sailkatu (1-0)

The Athletic he said goodbye to the course unable to qualify for the Conference League after lose 1-0 against Sevillawhich he would not have achieved either if he had added the three points at the Sánchez-Pizjuán, since both teams did not benefit from the results of Real Sociedad against Atlético de Madrid (1-2) and Barcelona against Villarreal ( 0-2).

The Biscayan team had the opportunity to reach the seventh place with which Villarreal started and win a place in the third continental competition, although it did not depend on their result.

Sevilla was the one that proposed the most from the initial whistle and before the second minute of the match they had their first chance.

The good local start was balanced by the passing of the match by Marcelino García Toral’s men, who began to prowl around Dmitrovic’s goal and after 27 minutes Yuri Berchiche He managed to beat him with a hard shot, but the play was invalidated by giving him the ball in his hand beforehand, which was alerted by the VAR.

Sevilla was unstable when the ball came out and this meant that Athletic stopped struggling and took over the center of the field.

At the beginning of the second half, the 0-1 for the visitors could soon come in an action in which Dmitrovic did not know how to control the ball well and that Inaki Williams and then on a stick. On the next play it was Dutch defender Karim Rekik who scored, but the action was also annulled after a VAR consultation for Frenchman Jules Koundé being offside.

In the end it was Rafa Mir who made it 1-0 after a great triangulation of the Andalusian formation that left the Basque with the need to react.

Data sheet

1 – Seville: Dmitrov; Jesús Navas, Koundé, Diego Carlos (Rekik, m.46), Acuña; Delaney, Joan Jordan; Lamela (Ocampos, m.69), Óliver Torres (Papu Gómez, m.69), Tecatito Corona (Rakitic, m.82); and En-Nesyri (Rafa Mir, m.59).

0 – Athletic Club: Unai Simon; De Marcos (Lekue, m.73), Vivian, Íñigo Martínez, Yuri; Berenguer (Nico Serrano, m.86), Vencedor (Villalibre, m.73), Vesga (Dani García, m.46), Muniain; Raúl García (Zárraga, m.46) and Iñaki Williams.

Goal: 1-0, M.68: Rafa Mir.

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Madrid Committee). He admonished the locals Joan Jordán (m.25), Acuña (m.76) and Papu Gómez (m.95) and the visitors Raúl García (m.38), Yuri (m.57) and Dani Vivian (m. 64).