Athletic Bilbao
Sevilla
Match summary
Sevilla beat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 on the road. Sevilla led 1-0 at half-time.
In the first half, Oso put Sevilla ahead in the 15th minute. In the second half, Chidera Ejuke made it 0-2 in the 51st minute, set up by Isaac Romero, Isaac Romero made it 0-3 in the 57th minute, set up by Oso, and Aitor Paredes pulled one back to make it 1-3 from a corner in the 70th minute, set up by Yeray Álvarez.
Athletic Bilbao can feel hard done by, creating 1.51 expected goals (xG) from 18 shots to Sevilla's 0.97 from 7. Athletic Bilbao had a player sent off.
Athletic Bilbao dominated the territory and statistics in this La Liga fixture, yet fell to a comprehensive defeat against Sevilla. The home side registered sixty-five percent possession and completed five hundred and nineteen passes compared to their opponents' two hundred and eighty-four. Athletic Bilbao also led significantly in overall shots with eighteen to seven, shots on target with eight to four, corners at ten to three, and generated an expected goals figure of 1.51 against Sevilla's 0.97. Despite this statistical dominance in attacks and dangerous attacks, the hosts were undermined by a first-half red card and defensive lapses.
The match turned decisively in the eleventh minute when Athletic Bilbao's Yuri Berchiche received a red card for a professional foul as the last man. Sevilla capitalised quickly when Oso scored with a left-footed shot in the fifteenth minute to establish a half-time lead. Peque Fernández, Gorka Guruzeta, Miguel Ángel Sierra Ortega, and Jon Guridi received yellow cards before the interval. Following a triple substitution by Sevilla at half-time, Chidera Ejuke extended the lead with a right-footed shot in the fiftieth minute, and Isaac Romero added a third with a left-footed strike in the fifty-seventh minute. Aitor Paredes pulled a goal back for Athletic Bilbao with a right-footed shot in the seventieth minute. Further yellow cards were shown to Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta and Nico Guillén before the match concluded at one to three.
