The second Seville regained its balance by winning the “Andalusian derby” against its neighbor and its third guest, Real Betis, in his favour, 2-1, while Villarreal remained at the heart of the struggle to qualify for the Champions League next season, with a sweeping victory over its guest Espanyol 5-1 thanks to the four-way of young Yeremi Mino. Sunday in the twenty-sixth stage of the Spanish Football League.
In the first match at the “Ramon Sanchez Bisjuan” stadium, Seville won the city’s derby in its first half by scoring two goals, before Sergio Canales reduced the difference in overtime.
Seville and coach Julen Lopetegui avenged the loss against neighbor Real Betis at the latter’s stadium a month and a half ago in the price of the local cup final when it stopped in the 39th minute after a projectile was thrown at the head of Seville midfielder Joan Jordan, and the result was 1-1, before completing it the next day and decided by the coach’s men Chilean Manuel Pellegrini 2-1.
Seville regained its balance after stumbling 1-1 against Espanyol in the last stage, achieving its fifteenth victory this season and the second in its last six matches, restoring the difference to six points between it and Real Madrid, who won against its host and neighbor Rayo Vallecano 1-0 Saturday, while Real Betis’s balance froze. at 46 points.
Seville was the best party at the beginning of the match, and its Moroccan international striker, Youssef Al-Nusairi, grabbed a penalty kick after he was obstructed by Chilean international goalkeeper Claudio Bravo inside the area, so Croatian midfielder Ivan Rakitic hit his right (25).
Seville suffered a painful blow by injuring its Argentine international playmaker Alejandro “Papu” Gomez, so Moroccan Mounir El Haddadi (30) entered his place.
Al-Hadadi succeeded in consolidating his team’s progress after 11 minutes with a powerful shot from outside the area (41).
Real Betis waited for overtime in the second half to reduce the difference through Canales from a direct free kick that he took to the left of Moroccan international goalkeeper Yassine Bounou (90 + 4).
In the second at the “La Ceramica” stadium, coach Unai Emery’s team decided its fourth victory in the last five stages in a series that included a tie at the leaders Real Madrid, in the first half, after it ended with a 3-0 lead, champion Pino (14, 20 and 45), to become 19 years and 130 He was the second youngest player in the five major leagues to score a hat-trick in the first half since March 2016, when Frenchman Ousmane Dembele achieved that for his former team Rennes against Nantes at 18 years and 296 days, according to Opta statistics.
Pino completed his festival by adding a fourth goal at the beginning of the second half (53), becoming the first player to score a quartet against veteran goalkeeper Diego Lopez, the forty-year-old who began his professional career in 1999, nearly three years before Pino’s birth.
After the Albanian Kaede Barry reduced the difference for the Catalan guest (65), the French substitute Boulayer Dia returned and expanded it again to four goals (86), confirming finally the eleventh victory of his team, which raised its score to 42 points in fifth place, three points behind the defending champion Atletico Madrid. He finished fourth in the final qualifying for the Champions League.
On the other hand, Espanyol’s balance froze at 29 points after it failed to achieve its first victory for 2022, specifically since its 2-1 victory over Valencia on New Year’s Eve.