FOOTBALL Live

Sunday December 7, 2008 Finished

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Real Madrid

  • Raúl 18’
  • Higuaín 66’
  • Gago 68’

Sevilla

  • Correia 4’
  • Romaric 21’
  • Kanouté 38’
  • Renato 84’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Real Madrid
    • Sevilla
    • 90' It's all over in Madrid!!! Sevilla have won it 4-3!! Schuster is surely in all kinds of trouble now. Thanks for joining me. What a cracker!
    • 85' GOOOOOAAAALLL!!!!! Kanoute gets in down the right and sends over a perfect cross for THE UNMARKED RENATE TO HEAD HOME FOR SEVILLA!!!! Surely that's the winner!!
    • 81' Kanoute tries one from long-range, but his effort flies high and wide.
    • 77' HIGUAIN HITS THE BAR!!! BUT THE MADRID PLAYERS ARE CONVINCED PALOP PULLED HIM BACK. ROBBEN PROTESTS TOO STRONGLY AND GETS A SECOND YELLOW CARD!!! MADRID'S BEST PLAYER HAS BEEN SENT OFF!!!
    • 76' Another change for Sevilla. Romaric is replaced by Federico Fazio, a defender.
    • 75' Robben drives down the right and cuts inside, before shooting from a tight angle...ROBBEN HITS THE POST!!! Palop had it covered.
    • 72' RAUL SHOOTS...WHAT A SAVE FROM PALOP!!! This is quite incredible match, arguably the best of the season in La Liga thus far. Anything could happen.
    • 72' Adriano is replaced by Diego Capel for Sevilla.
    • 71' Adriano tees up KANOUTE...who blasts over from eight yards!
    • 70' NAVAS CUTS INSIDE AND SHOOTS....WHAT A SAVE FROM CASILLAS!!!
    • 69' GOOOOOOAAAALLLL!!!!! Guti whips in a free-kick from the right and GAGO HEADS HOME FROM 10 YARDS TO BRING MADRID LEVEL!!!! WHAT A MATCH!!!
    • 67' GOOOOOOAAALLL!!! AND THERE IT IS!!!! HIGUAIN DRIVES FORWARD AND SMASHES A DRIVE INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT FROM THE INSIDE RIGHT CHANNEL!!! SUPERB FINISH!!!
    • 65' Fernando Gago goes in the book for a high foot on Escude. Time is running out for Madrid. Surely they need a goal in the next 10 minutes here.
    • 63' PENALTY SHOUT FOR MADRID!!! Higuain goes past Abdoulay Konko, who appears to put an arm across the midfielder and bring him down. In truth Higuain went to ground very easily, and that may well have swayed the referee in his decision. No penalty!
    • 61' Nice link-up between Raul and Higuain, but Raul's shot is weak and Palop gathers comfortably.
    • 56' Drenthe drives down the left flank and fires over a dangerous cross, but Raul can only deflect it behind off his midriff.
    • 54' Kanoute is the latest man in the referee's book. It's all got a bit scrappy in Madrid.
    • 51' Robben hacks down Dirnel Renato and gets himself a yellow card.
    • 49' Julien Escude gets a booking for a bodycheck on Higuain. Madrid have a free-kick just inside the Sevilla half, but the delivery is poor and the ball skips out for a goal-kick.
    • 46' Away we go with the second half! Bernd Schuster has made a change. Van der Vaart has been withdrawn, with Roysten Drenthe entering the fray.
    • 45+2' Half-time at the Bernabeu and the rain is coming down pretty heavily. Can Madrid lift the gloom? We'll find out in 15 minutes.
    • 45' Free-kick to Madrid on the right. Van der Vaart swings it over, but it's too long and goes behind for a goal-kick.
    • 39' GOOOAAAALLLL!!!! Madrid are caught napping in their own box and the ball lands at the feet of Freddie Kanoute 12 yards out. He calmly sends Casillas the wrong way to put Sevilla 3-1 up!!!
    • 36' Lovely move from Madrid, which culminates in a wonderful flick from Raul to Van der Vaart. The Dutchman pulls the trigger but his effort is straight at Palop.
    • 32' Rafael Van der Vaart shoots from the edge of box and draws a fine save from Palop. Meanwhile, Jesus Navas picks up a booking for tug on Raul.
    • 28' The Bernabeu has once more been stunned into hushed silence. Madrid fans can hardly believe what they've seen. If their team lose tonight they will be nine points adrift of bitter rivals Barca at the top of La Liga.
    • 22' GOOOOAAAALLL!!! Just when Madrid appeared to have found their feet, ROMARIC LEAPS INSIDE THE BOX AND HEADS HOME A RIGHT-WING CROSS FROM RENATO TO PUT THE VISITORS 2-1 UP!!
    • 19' GOOOOOAAALLLL!!!!! Guti whips in a free-kick from the right flank and RAUL GLANCES A HEADER IN AT THE NEAR POST FROM JUST OUTSIDE THE SIX-YARD BOX!!! That's his 302nd strike for Madrid, not a bad haul.
    • 17' Romaric tries his luck from long-range for Sevilla, but his effort soars over the bar.
    • 12' It's all gone quiet in Madrid, with the home fans stunned by that early goal. Robben is the only player who really looks up for this so far.
    • 7' Robben wins a corner for Madrid on their right. Sevilla clear at the near post and the danger passes.
    • 4' GOOOOOAAALLL!!!! Sevilla lead!!! Iker Casillas comes for a right-wing cross and misjudges it, allowing Adriano to sidefoot home at the far post from six yards. DISASTER FOR MADRID!!
    • 1' And we're away in Spain! Madrid are straight into the attack and Robben's shot requires a sharp early save from Andrew Palop.
    • - TEAM NEWS: Arjen Robben, Raul and Gonzalo Higuain will form a three-pronged front line for Madrid, who are of course without long-term injury casualty Ruud van Nistelrooy. Madrid welcome back Fabio Cannavaro at the back.
    • - Good evening and welcome to our LIVE coverage of Real Madrid v Sevilla in La Liga!

  • Team Stats

    Real Madrid Stats Sevilla
    53% Possession 46%
    25 Shots 16
    13 Shots on target 8
    2 Saves 5
    9 Corners 1
    18 Fouls 15
    0 Offsides 2
    3 Yellow cards 5
    1 Red cards 0
    18 Tackles 24
    338 Accurate passes 289
    71 Bad passes 57

  • 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
    • Real Madrid
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Iker Casillas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 3 0
      5 Fabio Cannavaro 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27 2 3
      2 Míchel Salgado 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 1
      12 Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 40 11 1
      4 Sergio Ramos 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 42 1 1
      8 Fernando Gago 1 2 1 3 3 0 1 62 9 5
      14 José Maria Guti 0 3 0 1 1 0 2 46 19 1
      23 Rafael van der Vaart 0 5 3 2 0 0 0 21 5 2
      20 Gonzalo Higuaín 1 3 2 0 3 0 0 22 4 0
      7 Raúl González Blanco 1 5 3 3 1 0 0 21 4 2
      11 Arjen Robben 0 4 3 2 5 0 0 15 6 1
      24 Javi Garcia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Jose Maria Anton Samper 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Royston Drenthe 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 7 1
      9 Javier Saviola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Alberto Bueno 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      21 Christoph Metzelder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      25 Jerzy Dudek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Sevilla
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Andrés Palop 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 1 0
      4 Sebastien Squillaci 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 0 2
      18 Fernando Navarro 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 32 13 5
      14 Julien Escudé 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 11 4 2
      11 Renato Dirnei 1 4 1 1 3 0 1 36 4 2
      22 Koffi Ndri Romaric 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 46 12 1
      5 Aldo Duscher 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 36 8 2
      7 Jesús Navas 0 3 2 3 2 1 0 26 0 1
      24 Abdoulay Konko 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 27 0 4
      6 Adriano Correia 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 22 8 3
      12 Frederic Kanouté 1 5 2 2 1 0 1 24 5 0
      17 Diego Capel 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 2 1
      15 Aquivaldo Mosquera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Javi Varas Herrera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      37 Teemu Pukki 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Ivica Dragutinovic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
      23 Federico Fazio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
      20 Tom De Mul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 85' GOOOOOAAAALLL!!!!! Kanoute gets in down the right and sends over a perfect cross for THE UNMARKED RENATE TO HEAD HOME FOR SEVILLA!!!! Surely that's the winner!!
    • 77' HIGUAIN HITS THE BAR!!! BUT THE MADRID PLAYERS ARE CONVINCED PALOP PULLED HIM BACK. ROBBEN PROTESTS TOO STRONGLY AND GETS A SECOND YELLOW CARD!!! MADRID'S BEST PLAYER HAS BEEN SENT OFF!!!
    • 72' RAUL SHOOTS...WHAT A SAVE FROM PALOP!!! This is quite incredible match, arguably the best of the season in La Liga thus far. Anything could happen.
    • 70' NAVAS CUTS INSIDE AND SHOOTS....WHAT A SAVE FROM CASILLAS!!!
    • 69' GOOOOOOAAAALLLL!!!!! Guti whips in a free-kick from the right and GAGO HEADS HOME FROM 10 YARDS TO BRING MADRID LEVEL!!!! WHAT A MATCH!!!
    • 67' GOOOOOOAAALLL!!! AND THERE IT IS!!!! HIGUAIN DRIVES FORWARD AND SMASHES A DRIVE INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT FROM THE INSIDE RIGHT CHANNEL!!! SUPERB FINISH!!!
    • 63' PENALTY SHOUT FOR MADRID!!! Higuain goes past Abdoulay Konko, who appears to put an arm across the midfielder and bring him down. In truth Higuain went to ground very easily, and that may well have swayed the referee in his decision. No penalty!
    • 39' GOOOAAAALLLL!!!! Madrid are caught napping in their own box and the ball lands at the feet of Freddie Kanoute 12 yards out. He calmly sends Casillas the wrong way to put Sevilla 3-1 up!!!
    • 22' GOOOOAAAALLL!!! Just when Madrid appeared to have found their feet, ROMARIC LEAPS INSIDE THE BOX AND HEADS HOME A RIGHT-WING CROSS FROM RENATO TO PUT THE VISITORS 2-1 UP!!
    • 19' GOOOOOAAALLLL!!!!! Guti whips in a free-kick from the right flank and RAUL GLANCES A HEADER IN AT THE NEAR POST FROM JUST OUTSIDE THE SIX-YARD BOX!!! That's his 302nd strike for Madrid, not a bad haul.
    • 4' GOOOOOAAALLL!!!! Sevilla lead!!! Iker Casillas comes for a right-wing cross and misjudges it, allowing Adriano to sidefoot home at the far post from six yards. DISASTER FOR MADRID!!
    • - Good evening and welcome to our LIVE coverage of Real Madrid v Sevilla in La Liga!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: González Vázquez Bernardino

  • Real Madrid

    Manager: Bernd Schuster

    Captain: 7. González Raúl

    Starting line-up

    • I. Casillas
    • M. Salgado
    • S. Ramos
    • F. Cannavaro
    • .. Marcelo Yellow Card Substitution Out (87′)
    • F. Gago Goal Yellow Card
    • J. Guti Yellow Card
    • R. van der Vaart Substitution Out (47′)
    • A. Robben Red Card
    • G. Higuaín Goal
    • G. Raúl Goal

    Subs

    • 21. C. Metzelder
    • 25. J. Dudek
    • 9. J. Saviola
    • 24. F. Javi García
    • A. Bueno Substitution In87′
    • 15. R. Drenthe Substitution In47′
    • 32. C. Antón

    Injured

    • 16. G. Heinze
    • 6. M. Diarra
    • 17. R. van Nistelrooy
    • 10. W. Sneijder
    • 3. .. Pepe
    • 18. R. De la Red
    • 22. M. Torres

    Suspended

    None

  • Sevilla

    Manager: Manuel Jiménez

    Captain: 1. Andrés Palop

    Starting line-up

    • A. Palop
    • A. Konko
    • S. Squillaci
    • J. Escudé Yellow Card
    • F. Navarro Yellow Card
    • A. Duscher
    • N. Romaric Goal Substitution Out (77′)
    • J. Navas Yellow Card
    • D. Renato Goal Yellow Card
    • A. Correia Goal Substitution Out (72′)
    • F. Kanouté Goal Yellow Card

    Subs

    • 20. T. de Mul
    • 3. I. Dragutinovic
    • 17. D. Capel Substitution In72′
    • 13. J. Varas
    • 23. F. Fazio Substitution In77′
    • 15. A. Mosquera
    • 37. T. Pukki

    Injured

    • 8. E. Maresca
    • 19. E. Chevanton
    • 2. J. Navarro
    • 9. A. Koné
    • 21. L. Acosta

    Suspended

    • 10. L. Fabiano