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Sevilla vs Malaga: Recap - Sunday, January 18, 2015


Sevilla, thanks to a new and convincing victory, just the first round in positions of Champions League and confirms his great season so far, while the 2-0 conceded by the Málaga he slows its progression and the fight which is tucked in the European area.


They left both teams with the common goal of closing the first round in the top flight with their best record numbers and hold in the fight for European places in the standings.

The strength of Sevilla at the Sanchez Pizjuan is also measured by presenting itself as the only team in the category that had not lost at home, and with good performance Málaga away and also in recent times has been given Seville nicely this stage, but this time the home side showed much more to the visitor.

At startup the foreseeable script of a local group that wanted to take command and control of the ball and another occurred, the visitor, who pushed hard and did not shrink, which was a strong pace.

It was the Colombian striker Carlos Bacca which enjoyed nineteen minutes of the first clear chance to score but failed to hit before the departure of Carlos Kameni of Cameroon goal, as happened at the edge of the half hour between the same players.

The team coach Unai Emery did more than the opponent to seek the goal, with Gerard Deulofeu very fast and dangerous at the right end, where he was a nuisance for the Portuguese Vitorino Antunes, although the response of Javi Gracia also came with finials almost consecutive Sergio Paulo Barbosa Portuguese 'Doubt' and Samu Castillejo who went out.

In this dynamic came the much sevillista with a shot between his two most dangerous men in attack, as Deulofeu took a perfect pass to Bacca and he made no mistake and scored his eleventh goal in this league, which earned for the home side were into halftime advantage.

In the second part found the Sevilla dropped a little in intensity in attack and that Malaga wanted to have more initiative, but it also led local counterattacks, one that ended in goal Bacca but was canceled by stating a wizard an out-of foreplay.

Grace pulled soon enters Javi Guerra, joined the team this week from the Welsh Cardiff, and Juan Miguel Jimenez 'Juanmi' to give more strength to jellyfish attack, but it was the adversary who struck again in a fantastic play of Denis Suarez after Bacca wall.

That second goal began to put the tough game to the visitors' training, which took over the ball but who failed to create real danger although the Moroccan international striker Nordin Amrabat not stop seeking safe spaces between Sevilla defense.

Emery, meanwhile, perfectly controlled rival rush to have no problem securing three points, bringing the total to 39, Sevilla record in its history in the first round, beating Juande Ramos as technical (38) in the 2006-07 campaign.