Sevilla FC versus Villarreal CF – Second half review: La Liga (Part 1)
Sevilla and Villarreal started the second half of their match at Estadio http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ramón-Sánchez-c30550 Pizjuan with the same teams that took the field in the first half. Neither of the coaches decided to bring about any half time changes.
It was expected that Villarreal would change things a bit and bring on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Ruben-c23740 started the second half for the yellow submariners.
Sevilla dominated the first half and they continued their quick tempo and slick passing display in the second half as well. In the 49th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Álvaro-Negredo-c5294 rose above his peers inside the Villarreal penalty area to meet Diego Perroti’s cross from the left hand side. Nonetheless, the Spanish target-man’s headed strike was a weak one as Diego Lopez held onto the shot to keep the score line at 2-0 in favour of Gregorio Manzano’s team.
However in the 54th minute, Carlos Garrido finally decided to bring on Giuseppe Rossi. The Italian striker replaced his Brazilian team-mate, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nilmar-c28044, taking up the role of spearheading the Villarreal attack. With an intelligent striker to play around with, Villarreal gained confidence due to the former Manchester United man’s introduction. Their offensive moves were more focused and they quickly gained a passage back into the encounter against Sevilla.
In the 56th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javi-Varas-c18024. Following their first goal of the encounter, the away side grew in stature.
Sevilla responded with a substitution of its own to stem Villarreal’s offensive tide as Rodrigo Ríos Lozano was replaced by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-c9045 Koffi Ndri, more commonly known as Romaric. The Ivorian midfielder brought new life to the Andalusian outfit’s midfield as he matched the speedy Santi Cazorla stride for stride.
In the 62nd minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Santi-Cazorla-c32505 almost made Sevilla pay for some slack defending as the Spanish winger clipped the outside of Javi Varas’ goal post with a finely timed free kick.
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