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Sunday April 6, 2008 Finished

FC Séville 2 - Villarreal CF 0

Sevilla

  • Fabiano 19’
  • Kanouté 86’ (pen.)

Villarreal

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Sevilla
    • Villarreal
    • 90+4 And that's the final whistle, 2-0 to Sevilla, who close the gap on fifth-placed Racing to two points, still five off Atletico. Villarreal stay second but could slip behind Barcelona if Los Cules win against Getafe later tonight - that match starts in five minutes!
    • 90+2 SEVILLA SUB: Kone on for Fazio.
    • 90' Capdevilla is shown two yellow cards, first for a handball and then for his dissent. The ref totally messes that up as the ball hit him on the thigh and it was clearly accidental anyway. Buy the man a biscuit.
    • 89' Sevilla bossing the latter stages of the game now, passing and moving at will with Villarreal effectively finished.
    • 87' Kanoute with a chance to wrap this up... and he strokes the ball into the bottom left, sending Lopez the other way, for 2-0.
    • 86' The ball is played through to Navas who has a shot that is parried and he's onto the loose ball and Diego Lopez takes him down while trying to get the ball and it's a penalty!
    • 86' VILLARREAL SUB: Cygan comes on for Gonzalo, not sure if to play as a striker or because Gonzalo's been so poor.
    • 85' Alves to take itÂ… but a poor effort rammed into the wall, which trickles harmlessly away from goal.
    • 84' Another yellow card is shown, I think maybe to Nihat, as Villarreal try to stall Sevilla from taking a free kick around 30 yards out. Senna was booked for the initial challenge...
    • 82' Capel with a theatrical tumble after a challenge that sees Cani booked.
    • 79' Mistake from Gonzalo lets in Keita, he must score and he rounds Lopez but falls over and the ball trickles out! That should have been 2-0. Gonzalo Rodriguez has been awful tonight.
    • 74' Javi Venta somehow avoids getting booked after hacking down Capel from behind.
    • 73' Sevilla counter though as Kanoute has it on the edge of the box and he can get the shot away but finally Gonzalo earns his coin with a fantastic block!
    • 73' Capdevilla is set free on the left and he hits the touchline before dragging the ball across to CAZORLA SLIDING IN but his finish is blocked and Sevilla survive! Villarreal still in it at 1-0.
    • 72' Poulsen on for Fabiano as Sevilla try to shore it up.
    • 71' Villarreal resist the temptation to hack the ball away and play it out of defence, Pires drawing the foul from Keita, booked for tugging the Frenchman back.
    • 70' Alves just about keeps the ball in on the right, he loses it but Navas comes in and wins the ball using a shoulder barge, old-school, and then earns his side a corner.
    • 67' Free-kick to Villarreal flung in by Senna but Sevilla manage to get it away...
    • 66' VILLARREAL SUB: Matias Fernandes on for Rossi.
    • 66' A long ball finds Kanoute unmarked with the Villarreal defence demanding offside and he takes it on the chest to fire in a shot but side-netting!
    • 65' Keita back to Capel who puts in another good cross but headed clear.
    • 64' Godin sees yellow for a foul on Alves.
    • 63' SEVILLA SUB: Kanoute on for Renato.
    • 62' Alves on the right with a brilliant far post cross and Capel flies in but off his shoulder and out for a goal kick!
    • 61' Navas and Fabiano link up and Fabiano with a brilliant backheel and Navas must score but a poor finish straight at the keeper!
    • 59' Fabiano is in and surely he's offside but there's no flag! The world stops and he's in but as soon as he touches it the flag goes up. See, officially, he is not interfering until he touches it. But the furious Renato, following up, could have scored. Oops. Silly rule anyway.
    • 58' Fabiano has a yell at the linesman after being flagged for a foul while chasing the ball.
    • 57' Sevilla on the edge of the Villarreal box, some one-touch passing and Navas with the low drive which Lopez can't hold onto and Alves flies in but Lopez gets there first.
    • 56' Good delivery from the corner and Eguren with the header but tipped away by Palop!
    • 55' Javi Venta surges forward on the overlap and Cazorla finds him but a poor touch and he is tackled before he can get it to Rossi.
    • 51' Capel with the corner but Villarreal clear. The visitors on the defensive in the early stages of this second half. Fabiano offside and a bit annoyed with the linesman.
    • 50' Adriano on the left, into Capel who slips it across for Fabiano but whacked away by Venta!
    • 49' Navas on the right, slips it through to Fabiano who AGAIN beats the offside trap with Gonzalo all over the place but a heavy first touch allows Lopez to smother.
    • 47' Villarreal break and Pires almost gets it to Nihat in the box but nicked behind by Mosquera for a corner.
    • 46' Navas on the right in space but he sends the cross to close to Lopez.
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 45+1 Half-time, the home side leading 1-0 through Luis Fabiano's 23rd Liga goal of the season.
    • 45' Free-kick to Sevilla around 30 yards out which Alves takes quickly, it takes an awkward bobble and almost beats Lopez but he holds on at the second attempt.
    • 43' Nihat is down with a light facial injury, an arm in the mouth from an opponent but nothing serious.
    • 41' Venta now gets forward for Los Amarillos, sending in a testing cross that Prieto heads away... Villarreal looking more threatening now.
    • 38' Cross comes in from Cazorla on the left and Nihat rises but can't get the header in.
    • 35' Capel is down injured after sliding into a metal barrier following a sturdy challenge from Javi Venta.
    • 31' Senna through to Nihat but the flag is up.
    • 29' Corner to Villarreal... Palop has a go at Godin for daring to challenge him for the ball.
    • 28' Pires gets the ball on the right and swings over a dangerous first-time cross and Nihat is there but over him and Palop but no-one at the back stick!
    • 27' Fazio booked for a clumsy tackle on Rossi.
    • 26' Capel does really well to keep the ball in and beat his man but the linesman calls it out, Capel can't believe it as it looked to have been kept in.
    • 25' Navas on the right, sends a diagonal ball over the top AND KEITA SLIDES IN AND MUST MAKE IT TWO BUT HE SKIES IT! What a miss! Again shocking from Gonzalo, who let him in between him and Godin while playing him onside.
    • 24' Free kick to Villarreal which Senna sends in, Palop can only punch and Pires tries a shot but Palop catches this time... quickly out from the keeper and Sevilla break.
    • 22' Luis Fabiano rakes his studs over the ankle of Gonzalo, who is down and pretty angry. Godin is a bit miffed too.
    • 21' Navas wriggles and turns on the right and digs out a cross for Keita with the header but straight at Lopez.
    • 20' Capel with a surging run down the left, this boy has gas as he smacks in a brilliant cross FOR KEITA FLYING IN WITH THE HEADER but blocked for a corner! Great play by the young winger.
    • 19' Ball over the top by Dani Alves and Fabiano gets it on the shoulders of the defenders, he races away from the last man and rifles it into the bottom left for 1-0! Gonzalo let him go there, he had plenty of space between the centre backs and you cannot give the Liga top scorer that amount of space.
    • 16' Rossi on the right wins his team a corner off Adriano.
    • 15' Corner swung in from the right, Navas takes it, and a header from Prieto is blocked and falls to RENATO WITH THE FOLLOW-UP but Venta gets it clear! Corner again.
    • 14' Sevilla counter at pace, Navas on the right is in loads of space and he pings a low ball in for Fabiano WHO LEAVES IT FOR CAPEL UNMARKED WITH THE FINISH BUT A GREAT SAVE BY LOPEZ! Corner, should have been a goal.
    • 13' Rossi cuts in from the right onto his favoured left foot and sends a dipping shot towards the bottom left corner but well-saved by Palop.
    • 10' Senna sends a free kick in which Sevilla don't clear, the ricochet could let Nihat in but the home defence hold him off and clear.
    • 9' Navas on the right, hits the byline and drills in a low ball for Renato but a desperate sliding challenge by Gonzalo saves Villarreal!
    • 8' Diego Lopez does well to get his hands on the ball after Capel sent in a superb cross from the left.
    • 7' Capel plays a superb diagonal ball over the top which Gonzalo misses but Fabiano checked his run and can't quite get there!
    • 5' Fabiano and Renato link up again, this time the latter with the low drive but it goes well-wide.
    • 3' Renato with a good run on the left, slots a ball across for Fabiano on the edge of the box, he goes down with his back to goal but nothing given.
    • 1' Match underway!
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of the first of tonight's big games in La Liga! Villarreal will be hoping to close the gap on league leaders Real Madrid with victory over Sevilla. But all three points are equally as important for the hosts, who are chasing a European slot. It promises to be a cracker!

  • Team Stats

    Sevilla Stats Villarreal
    46% Possession 53%
    19 Shots 11
    9 Shots on target 3
    2 Saves 5
    8 Corners 4
    18 Fouls 17
    8 Offsides 2
    2 Yellow cards 6
    0 Red cards 1
    24 Tackles 17
    246 Accurate passes 293
    35 Bad passes 59

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Sevilla
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Andrés Palop 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0
      28 Federico Fazio 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 24 6 2
      30 David Prieto 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 17 2 5
      4 Daniel Alves 0 3 1 3 0 0 1 52 1 3
      15 Aquivaldo Mosquera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 4
      11 Renato Dirnei 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 16 2 0
      21 Seydou Keita 0 3 1 3 1 0 0 28 8 4
      7 Jesús Navas 0 3 2 2 5 0 0 30 0 1
      6 Adriano Correia 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 31 6 1
      17 Diego Capel 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 11 5 4
      10 Luis Fabiano 1 3 1 0 1 5 0 11 0 0
      12 Frederic Kanouté 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 6 3 0
      27 Alejandro Alfaro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      8 Christian Poulsen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0
      26 José Ángel Rincón 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Sergio Paulo Barbosa Valente 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Arouna Koné 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Morgan De Sanctis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Villarreal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      13 Diego Lopez 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 2 0
      2 Javier Gonzalo Rodriguez 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 21 0 2
      5 Joan Capdevila 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27 20 1
      17 Javi Rodriguez Venta 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 12 1 0
      4 Diego Godin 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 25 2 3
      23 Sebastian Eguren 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 18 6 3
      19 Marcos Senna 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 47 8 7
      7 Robert Pires 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 40 4 0
      8 Santi Cazorla 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 49 9 1
      22 Giuseppe Rossi 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 12 3 0
      15 Kahveci Nihat 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 11 3 0
      10 Ruben Cani 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 18 1 0
      21 Bruno Llido 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Josico Josico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Ángel David López Ruano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Sebastian Viera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Matías Fernández 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 5 0 0
      12 Pascal Cygan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Capdevilla is shown two yellow cards, first for a handball and then for his dissent. The ref totally messes that up as the ball hit him on the thigh and it was clearly accidental anyway. Buy the man a biscuit.
    • 87' Kanoute with a chance to wrap this up... and he strokes the ball into the bottom left, sending Lopez the other way, for 2-0.
    • 86' The ball is played through to Navas who has a shot that is parried and he's onto the loose ball and Diego Lopez takes him down while trying to get the ball and it's a penalty!
    • 79' Mistake from Gonzalo lets in Keita, he must score and he rounds Lopez but falls over and the ball trickles out! That should have been 2-0. Gonzalo Rodriguez has been awful tonight.
    • 73' Sevilla counter though as Kanoute has it on the edge of the box and he can get the shot away but finally Gonzalo earns his coin with a fantastic block!
    • 73' Capdevilla is set free on the left and he hits the touchline before dragging the ball across to CAZORLA SLIDING IN but his finish is blocked and Sevilla survive! Villarreal still in it at 1-0.
    • 66' A long ball finds Kanoute unmarked with the Villarreal defence demanding offside and he takes it on the chest to fire in a shot but side-netting!
    • 62' Alves on the right with a brilliant far post cross and Capel flies in but off his shoulder and out for a goal kick!
    • 61' Navas and Fabiano link up and Fabiano with a brilliant backheel and Navas must score but a poor finish straight at the keeper!
    • 57' Sevilla on the edge of the Villarreal box, some one-touch passing and Navas with the low drive which Lopez can't hold onto and Alves flies in but Lopez gets there first.
    • 56' Good delivery from the corner and Eguren with the header but tipped away by Palop!
    • 55' Javi Venta surges forward on the overlap and Cazorla finds him but a poor touch and he is tackled before he can get it to Rossi.
    • 50' Adriano on the left, into Capel who slips it across for Fabiano but whacked away by Venta!
    • 49' Navas on the right, slips it through to Fabiano who AGAIN beats the offside trap with Gonzalo all over the place but a heavy first touch allows Lopez to smother.
    • 25' Navas on the right, sends a diagonal ball over the top AND KEITA SLIDES IN AND MUST MAKE IT TWO BUT HE SKIES IT! What a miss! Again shocking from Gonzalo, who let him in between him and Godin while playing him onside.
    • 20' Capel with a surging run down the left, this boy has gas as he smacks in a brilliant cross FOR KEITA FLYING IN WITH THE HEADER but blocked for a corner! Great play by the young winger.
    • 19' Ball over the top by Dani Alves and Fabiano gets it on the shoulders of the defenders, he races away from the last man and rifles it into the bottom left for 1-0! Gonzalo let him go there, he had plenty of space between the centre backs and you cannot give the Liga top scorer that amount of space.
    • 15' Corner swung in from the right, Navas takes it, and a header from Prieto is blocked and falls to RENATO WITH THE FOLLOW-UP but Venta gets it clear! Corner again.
    • 14' Sevilla counter at pace, Navas on the right is in loads of space and he pings a low ball in for Fabiano WHO LEAVES IT FOR CAPEL UNMARKED WITH THE FINISH BUT A GREAT SAVE BY LOPEZ! Corner, should have been a goal.
    • 9' Navas on the right, hits the byline and drills in a low ball for Renato but a desperate sliding challenge by Gonzalo saves Villarreal!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Miguel Angel Perez Lasa

  • Sevilla

    Manager: Manuel Jiménez

    On the Field

    • Palop
    • Alves
    • Mosquera
    • Prieto
    • Correia
    • Keita Yellow Card
    • Fazio Yellow Card
    • Navas
    • Renato Substitution Out (64′)
    • Capel
    • Fabiano Goal Substitution Out (72′)

    Subs

    • 12. Kanouté Substitution In (64′)
    • 13. De Sanctis
    • 8. Poulsen Substitution In (72′)
    • 5. Barbosa "Duda"
    • 20. de Mul
    • 22. Koné
    • 26. Crespo
    • 27. Alejandro

    Injured

    • 14. Escudé
    • 19. Chevanton
    • 2. Navarro
    • 23. Bouhlarouz
    • 3. Dragutinovic

    Suspended

    None

  • Villarreal

    Manager: Manuel Pellegrini

    On the Field

    • López
    • Venta
    • Godín Yellow Card
    • Rodríguez Yellow Card Substitution Out (86′)
    • Capdevila Red Card
    • Senna Yellow Card
    • Eguren Substitution Out (61′)
    • Pires
    • Kahveci
    • Cazorla
    • Rossi Substitution Out (66′)

    Subs

    • 12. Cygan Substitution In (86′)
    • 6. Moreno "Josico"
    • 3. Josemi
    • 10. Gracia "Cani" Substitution In (61′) Yellow Card
    • 18. López Ruano
    • 1. Viera
    • 21. Bruno
    • 14. Fernández Substitution In (66′)

    Injured

    • 11. Tomasson
    • 9. Franco

    Suspended

    None