First Division - Day 16

Sevilla 4 - Málaga 1

Sevilla: Sergio Rico; Mercado (Kolodziejczak 46’), Nico Pareja (Kranevitter 46’), Rami; Vitolo, Iborra, N’Zonzi, Nasri, Sarabia; Vietto, Ben Yedder (Diego González 67’). 3-5-2.
Málaga: Boyko; Miguel Torres, Diego Llorente, Mikel Villanueva, Ricca (Recio 46’); Camacho, Pablo Fornals; Rosales, Juanpi (Javi Ontiveros 46’), Juan Carlos (Chory Castro 64’); Sandro. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 25. Vietto. Ran on to N’Zonzi pass and poked shot across Boyko.
2-0. 28. Vietto. From close to goal after Boyko deflected Vitolo centre.
3-0. 34. Ben Yedder. Stabbed shot wide of keeper from Mercado cross.
4-0. 35. Vitolo. Turned ball in from close up after Vietto crossed from right.
4-1. 64. Sandro. Curled free kick over defensive wall wide of Sergio Rico.

Yellow cards: Nico Pareja 29’, N’Zonzi 58’, Rami 61’, 61’, Javi Ontiveros 71’, Rosales 82’, Villanueva 92’ / red cards: Rami 61’.

Sevilla’s great season continues, and they moved up to second pending Barcelona’s game on Sunday after beating neighbours Málaga 4-1 on Saturday evening. All four of the home team’s goals came in a ten minute period midway through the first half, Vietto starting things off after N’Zonzi put him through. Three minutes later the Argentinian striker got his second after Boyko could only push out a Vitolo cross, and Ben Yedder added the third soon afterwards from a Mercado centre. A minute after that Vitolo connected with Vietto’s cross to make it four, and the game was already over. Rami was sent off however after picking up two bookings in succession on the hour mark, Sandro converted the resulting free kick, but although Ontiveros, Recio and Chory Castro all had chances later on, there was no way back for the visitors.