Sevilla 2-1 MIERDA; Take That to The Bank

By: Anthony | October 7th, 2009

06-SevillaFC-RMadrid 21 Contrary to popular belief, I am still alive. A Sevilla thrashing of Real Madrid equals a four day hangover in Anthony’s world. Lucky for you, I’m back now and ready to break down what was easily the best match of the season so far.

Logically and historically our biggest rival has been cross-town neighbours, Real Betis. To be honest though, I’ve always considered Real Madrid to, not necessarily be our biggest rival, but definitely the team I probably hate the most.

Now don’t get me wrong, there’s no way set in stone on how to properly play football but any fan or lover of the game will know that Madrid plays pretty boring stuff. Maybe I just take it for granted that not every team in the world plays the free-flowing, quick passing, magnificent, mouth watering football that we do.

It’s just something about a team who wants to buy their success that angers me beyond belief. It’s hard to hate their El Clásico rivals Barça who develop their talent from their infamous youth academy and don’t rely upon bank loans to fund their success. Real on the other hand seem to want to buy their way into everything like we’re still living in the days of General Francisco Franco or something…

Coming off an emphatic 4-1 victory over Rangers in Scotland last week in the Champions League, I knew that the squad would be full of confidence coming back home to face one of La Liga’s “elite sides”. True enough, we didn’t disappoint.

Right from the beginning, we came flying out of the gates knowing we had a massive point to prove and that was, all this hype about Sevilla is truly warranted. We have an absolutely solid squad with the depth that we lacked in the past few years to compete with the top 2 of La Liga.

Navas was a bullet on the flank as usual as he absolutely tore apart the Real defense, most notably Marcelo who was about 5 steps behind Jesús on average. Regardless of what anyone said, Jesús Navas was definitely the man of the match.

Time after time we missed easy chances on goal with Fabiano and Konko even missing from within the 6 yard box. Finally on the 34th minute, my personal man of the match, Jesús Navas put us ahead with an unorthodox goal by his standards, smashing in a header off a Fernando Navarro cross as he rose above the useless Marcelo.

That’s how the first half ended – with us up 1-0 and in absolute control of the match.

After the break we continued where we left off, dominating who were considered the favourites coming into the match.

Negredo gave Diego Perotti a absolute sitter when he broke down the right side and put it in for our wonderkid as he took it too easily and hit it right into Casillas. Easily probably the one of the worst misses I’ve ever seen in my life. Real fans say will say it was a great save by Casillas but let’s be realistic here – Perotti basically handed it to him.

That came back to bite us in the ass as on the counter attack we gave away a useless free kick just outside our 18 yard box. Guti accurately took it and put it on the head of a jumping Pepe who headed it past Palop.

Is it just me or is Pepe the ugliest player probably in the world? What was the trying to do with his head? What a strange, strange man. If you know of someone uglier please do make a reference because as far as I’m concerned, no one can top him.

Even after the Real goal we continued to dominate possession and show why La Liga should be considered a three horse race instead of a two horse one.

It didn’t take long for our determination to pay off as in the 65th minute we got another goal through a man who had a lot to make up for his easy miss in front of goal. None other than our Brasilian veteran Renato. Now I personally as anyone who reads this blog will know, have a vert love/hate relationship with him. He will play his heart out one day only to have an absolutely shockingly bad match the next week. Fortunately for us though, he always seems to score against the mierda. A pinpoint Adriano cross resulted in Renato putting us ahead 2-1 in what was a much deserved lead considering we dominated the match entirely.

The game continued with us all over the team who spent 10 times the amount we did this summer and we closed up shop with a final result of 2-1.

The neutrals, football lovers, and all of Spain outside the capital is probably happy we won and it just shows how much progress we’ve made from previous seasons and our intent from here on in.

Our result does keep us stagnant at third place due to worse goal differential but I have no doubts that with the way we’re playing we can very easily leap frog the mierda.

A few special personal shoutouts and special mentions are as follows:

Didier Zokora who was an absolute rock in the midfield. I was very familiar with him from his time at Tottenham but never appreciated him until now. La Liga is more his style and he’s proving to be a bargain at just 9 million Euros. He’s an absolute rock in the midfield, something we lacked since the departure of Christian Poulsen. Zokora is definitely becoming a fan favourite in the Sánchez Pizjuán as well as we saw when he got the crown all riled up as he held off the big ugly Pepe in the corner towards the end of the match and ended up getting the foul call. His stability allows Renato to roam and have a more attacking mindset, something that’s resulted in the Brasilian getting off the a good start scoring-wise so far. Most importantly though, he kept Kaká absolutely silent and when you can do that to a team’s best player, you can only expect good things.

Jesús Navas who like I said, was easily man of the match. He played out of his skin and scored the first as well as passed to Adriano who crossed it in for the second goal. He was all over the pitch and gave the Real defense a headache every time he dribbled near them. A description of our prodigal son isn’t really needed if you’re a true Sevillista. He’s amazing – yes we know.

If anyone else deserves a special mention, definitely let me know. Obviously the whole team played well but I think those were definitely the two men who deserved as much.

Everyone knows that the mierda fans will come out now and make excuses about Ronaldo being injured and this, that and the other but we know that’s all bullshit. Anyone who watched the match could see that we were clearly the stronger side and came out wanting to win. We had a game plan, stuck to it, and did the business. Stop being bitter and admit that. Thanks a lot.

It’s a shitty time for a two week international break because just as we had all that momentum, we have to put it on halt until we resume league play against Deportivo la Coruña. As we know, we definitely had their number last year, even at one point beating them 3 times in only a span of 1 week but this will be far from easy also considering they’re doing very well so far. They sit in fourth, just one place behind us and only three points behind us meaning they could very easily catch up.

More about that later but for now I think we all deserve to bask in the euphoria (as if I haven’t enough).

¡¡VAMOS CAMPEÓN!!