Valencia: Diego Alves; Barragán, Mustafi, Abdennour, Siqueira; Dani Parejo, Javi Fuego, André Gomes; Santi Mina (Feghouli 77‘), Paco Alcácer (Negredo 85’), Rodrigo (Enzo Pérez 65’). 4-3-3.
Sevilla: Sergio Rico; Coke, Rami, Fazio, Escudero; Krychowiak, Cristóforo (Gameiro 60‘); Juan Muñoz (Vitolo 46‘), Banega, Krohn-Dehli; Llorente (Konoplyanka 70‘). 4-2-3-1.
Goals:
1-0. 41. Dani Parejo. Free kick from outside of area which took deflection off wall.
1-1. 86. Gameiro. Ran on to Krohn-Dehli pass and turned shot past Diego Alves.
2-1. 91. Negredo. Poked shot past Rico after wide Dani Parejo free kick fell to him.
Yellow cards: Mustafi 31’, Llorente 54’, Enzo Pérez 87’, Rami 90’.
Sevilla are down to seventh after they lost 2-1 at Valencia on Sunday, a first win for the Ches’ new coach Pako Ayestarán who took over from Gary Neville recenty. Unai Emery rested several key players after Thursday night’s Euopean tie, and his team were over-run in the first half, Sergio Rico having to save from Paco Alcácer and Dani Parejo, and Santi Mina going close a couple of times. With five minutes to go to the break Parejo opened the scoring with a free kick which took a slight deflection off the head of Muñoz, and Mina and Parejo could both have added to the lead before the half time whistle. Emery was forced to bring on his first choice players after that, and they started to get back in the game, Llorente feeling himself unlucky to have two good penalty appeals turned down when he was held back by Mustafi. With four minutes to go Gameiro latched on to a Krohn-Dehli through ball to level the scores, but with the match in injury time Negredo poked home the winner after a long Parejo free kick fell to him in front of goal.