Liga: Rayo-Sevilla 1-1. Real can fly at +10

From our correspondent Filippo Maria Ricci

March 13
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A draw that is useless for Sevilla, a little for Rayo Vallecano and a lot for Real Madrid. In Vallecas between Rayo and Sevilla it ended 1-1, the fifth consecutive away match that the Andalusian team closes with the sign X. Lopetegui’s team goes to -7 from Madrid on the pitch tomorrow in Mallorca: winning in the Balearics Ancelotti will extend to +10 at the top of the league table that seems determined.

Rayo swooping

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Sevilla do not lose but win little: 6 draws in the last of Liga. For Rayo, still looking for their first success of 2022, a draw after 6 losses in a row: the Madrid team were fourth before Christmas, but they scored 2 points out of 27 and now they have to watch their backs, the relegation zone is approaching dangerously .

Many absent

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Lopetegui always has a large number of absentees, Papu Gomez, Fernando, Suso, Lamela, Diego Carlos, Montiel, Rekik and the suspended Joan Jordan, but even Iraola is not in good shape without Isi and Alvaro Garcia, suspended, Unai, Falcao and Saveljich injured. The result was an initially animated but ugly game, with few chances. On 12 ‘Sevilla scored with Rafa Mir from a corner action but Var canceled it for a touch of the attacker’s hand. Then more Rayo, close to scoring with a lob from Sergi Guardiola who closed his run on the top of the crossbar, and three oversized headers from Nteka, Comesaña and Catena.

Question and answer

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The Rayo found the goal after 49 seconds of recovery, thanks to a powerful diagonal from Bebé from a tight angle on the right, nice shot but Bounou evidently had to do more with the ball that folded his hands. Lopetegui immediately put Martial for Munir, the ‘Tecatito’ Corona for Jesus Navas and Acuña (injured in the 66th minute and replaced by Carmona) for Augustinsson, retreating in defense Lucas Ocampos, but it was Rayo who came close to scoring again with a another diagonal from the right, again by Bebé. And in the 63rd minute the ‘Tecatito’, always brilliant, gave Delaney the equalizer, who arrived with a nice touch in left extension at the far post ahead of Fran Garcia. Complicated goal made in America, with Rayo protesting a previous foul on Santi Comesaña.

Penalty canceled

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Lopetegui finished with En-Nesyri, Martial and Rafa Mir in the field together, an unprecedented heavy trident that combined very very little. In the 78th minute, the referee granted a penalty for Catena’s non-existent foul on Rafa Mir, except to correct his wrong decision with a remedial visit to the monitor. In recovery, the Macedonian goalkeeper Dimitrievski, who will face Italy in the World Cup playoff, was decisive on two occasions. First on a diagonal from Martial and then on Delaney’s header on the corner derived from the parry, with the ball dancing around the post. Ancelotti can indulge in a quiet and pleasant siesta: the fifth great European championship is approaching his magnificent palmares.