A goal by Javi Guerra in the 88th minute (1-2) gave Valencia the victory this Friday at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium when Sevilla already played with ten players due to the expulsion shortly before the French center-back Loïc Badé, with what that Rubén Baraja's team adds its first three points in LaLiga and stops José Luis Mendilibar's team.
The sevillistas, who don't have much time for regrets, since next Wednesday they play the European Super Cup in Athens against Manchester City, they were never comfortable and started 0-1 on the hour thanks to Diakhaby, tied nine minutes later with En-Nesyri's goal and they were beaten again by Javi Guerra's.
The coach of the Andalusian team must have thought that what ended well last season, with a continental title like the Europa League, should have continuity in this one and thus he had a starting team that was the base last year for the Biscayan coach.
Without any of the three reinforcements made this summer, he was in the starting eleven, the locals faced a rival with a very renewed squad, but above all because of the numerous departures, since their coach did make his only signing debut in LaLiga for now by his club, that of the midfielder from Levante José Luis García Vayá, who turned 25 precisely this Friday.
The visitors wanted to show from the start that they showed up at the Sánchez-Pizjuán without complexes, wanting the ball and wanting their rival not to harass them in that predictable initial push by the home teams.
Sevilla tried it, first with an arrival from the right of the Argentine Erik Lamela that did not end up in the boots of the Moroccan striker Youssef En-Nesyri and shortly after with a shot that went high for the Argentine Marcos Acuña, but soon he also responded in a counter for Valencia Diego López with a shot that went wide.
It was difficult for the Andalusian formation to take control in the center of the field and for its creative players, such as the Croatian Iván Rakitic and Suso Fernández, to give play to the attack, while it was enough for the Levantines to cover gaps in that area waiting for that the rival gave him his options.
After half an hour there was a hydration break that helped the technicians to correct things and give new instructions and it seemed that Rubén Baraja's were the ones that stood out the most on the field, to the point that once again Diego López stood up. goal with the resource of a heel.
More was played in the Sevilla field, with these trying to go against it, as in one of the Argentine Lucas Ocampos, but without any of the teams giving the feeling of having it clear in front of the goals.
In the second, the locals wanted to give the match a little more rhythm, especially on the left side with Acuña and Lamela, until the latter, who was coming off an injury, was replaced by Óliver Torres, at which time it was also seen that Valencia and Hugo Duro successfully making the Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bono intervene.
The set that was only the prelude to the 0-1, which arrived at game time with the shot from Guinean Mouctar Diakhaby, which seemed to knock out the locals, but, already with the youth player Juanlu and the Swiss reinforcement Djibri Sow recently Entering the field, Suso Fernández served a ball into the area that En-Nesyri did not forgive nine minutes after the visitor's goal.
It seemed that the goal was going to give Sevilla a boost in the final stretch to go for the three points, but in the 81st minute they were left with ten on the field when the French center-back Loïc Badé was sent off for fouling Hugo Duro being the last defender.
That broke the game and Javi Guerra in minute 88 made it 1-2 now definitive, despite the fact that the game lasted eleven minutes, but that time was not enough for the locals and even more so in numerical inferiority.
