In the 90th minute, Betis went into extra time with a goal from Chistyakov that left the Verdiblanca’s resistance to nothing. Zenit had been superior and deserved the goal but then the VAR appeared to see a stomp on Guido Rodríguez that the referee had not seen. Villamarín celebrated it as their own goal. They will be in the round of 16 after finishing the match goalless.
BET
ZEN
Betis
Rui Silva; Bellerin, Pezzella, Edgar, Alex Moreno; Guido, Saved (Tello 90′); Canales (William Carvalho 70′), Fekir (Joaquín 83′), Ruibal; Willian Jose (Borja Iglesias 83′).
zenith
Odoesvski; Wilmar Barrios, Chistyakov, Douglas; Sutormin, Claudinho, Wendel, Krugovoy; Malcom, Yuri Alberto (Erokhin 84′), Dzyuba (Sergeev 64′).
Referee
Halil Umut (Turkey) TA: Guido (23′) / Krugovoy (42′), Barrios (55′), Erokhin (90′).
Incidents
Benito Villamarin Stadium
If the punch was the protagonist in Russia, in Seville there was everything but gunpowder. And less bad. Betis had a bad time, at times very badly against a Zenit team that would not be unfair to say that they deserved at least one goal and forced extra time at Villamarín. With a scare in the body but to the round of 16.
Pellegrini warned yesterday. “You don’t have to play with the result.” It is always a dangerous tactic but Betis did not display the game that we are used to. Zenit came out determined to tie the tie but lacked clear ideas in the final meters. Betis, well planted behind, suffered on set pieces.
Dzyuba, the 1.97m giant who already scored in the first leg, was a constant danger with every corner that the Saint Petersburg team caused. Edgar gave the scare with a blow to the face that sent Bartra to warm up but the center-back held out on the pitch. The verdiblancos made more connections with Canales and especially with Fekir, who came into play a little.
If Zenit had warned but without too much danger, at the beginning of the second half they raised the level. Yuri Alberto scored, but he did it offside. Villamarín was frozen in action but sighed after seeing the flag raised. It was the first warning.
Betis also generated but more timidly. A play also invalidated for offside ended with the leather bouncing off the wood. But as the minutes passed, Zenit managed to gain ground and were a constant danger. Yuri Alberto wasted a back pass with everything in his favor that scared Pellegrini’s men even more.
Then Rui Silva appeared. It is true that the action would not have gone up on the scoreboard due to Sergeev being offside, but the save by the Portuguese goalkeeper was spectacular. Zenit was getting closer to scoring the goal they needed to force extra time and it arrived. Again. But he didn’t count either. Chistyakov’s shot entered but there was a prior stomp on Guido that the VAR saw. The referee went to the monitor and annulled the goal. The virgin went down to Villamarín but they will be in the round of 16.