Sevilla 4-Slavia Prague 2–Winning the must win

By: Ryan | October 3rd, 2007

What a great game yesterday that showed me just how resilient we really can be.

I’m not going to lie, I was a bit on edge yesterday going into the game. No matter how certain one can be about their club, in times of struggle it is easy to think pessimistically.

The Champions League games are generally played on Tuesday and Wednesday, which means that my Tuesday Semantics and Corpus Linguistics class that gets out at 3:30 cuts into my game watching time, and my Advanced Phonetics class from 3:30-6 on Wednesday just can’t give me any leeway.

After getting out of class what a shock to see in the 60th minute it was 3-1. I can’t remember the last time I was shocked that Sevilla were winning, but it was something that needed to happen, and it started happening yesterday.

I didn’t see much of the game as my live-footy.org stream was marginal at best, but I was watching the updates through as.com and Marca.es. I only saw the highlights on the video above and by the looks of it, we missed about 2 or 3 sitters that could have been goals as well. But that is what happens every game.

I do have to say that I was a bit surprised that Koné didn’t start upfront in this game after Juande was praising his ‘doble K’. I’m glad that they got him on in the second half and that he was able to net a goal. What a signing he was. World Class all the way.

I don’t need to talk about all the goals because you can watch them uptop, but wow, what was that keeper doing on Luis Fabiano’s goal? He was out in Switzerland when he finally attempted to take a stab at Kanouté. That was just poor keeping. Not to mention the gift that the defender gave to Kanouté. Simply stunning.

Kanouté was the MOTM by the looks of it and by all of the reports I’ve read about the match. As.com actually said that it was Kanouté’s Exhibition. He scored the first goal, set up Luis Fabiano, Koné and Escudé, and looked to be in top form from all the choppy bits I saw.

I’m curious as to how Dani Alves played. I wanted to see if he turned it up a notch or two from the last few games when his crosses were lacking and his pace was a bit off. If anyone saw the game and could comment on that, I would appreciate it.

Also, in Sevilla yesterday, they had intense flooding that ravaged some of the suburbs, most notibly Alcalá de Guadaira where a good friend of mine lives. Alcalá is actually now declared a ‘zona catastrofíca’ which is basically a State of Emeregency in the States. The game was played in some intense rain, but never halted.

So should I go as far as to saying that we literally and figuratively ‘weathered the storm?’ I’m thinking so. But you are only as good as your next game, and that game will be on Sunday against Deportivo.