MADRID (AP) \u2014 Rayo Vallecano rallied late to draw 3-3 with Real Sociedad on Sunday in a Spanish league match marked by a sudden turn of events after VAR erased a Rayo goal and awarded a penalty kick to Sociedad instead.<\/p>\n
Rayo thought it had equalized 2-2 through Pedro D\u00edaz in the 69th minute at Vallecas Stadium, but the goal was called back after the referee went to video review and awarded a penalty kick to Sociedad earlier in the buildup.<\/p>\n
Mikel Oyarzabal converted the 76th-minute penalty to make it 3-1 to the visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you decide not to call a penalty, the VAR calls you and your decision is delayed minute by minute, you are essentially telling the public that you don\u2019t think it\u2019s a penalty because you are not convinced,\u201d Rayo coach I\u00f1igo P\u00e9rez said. He added that “if you have doubts over 10 minutes, it\u2019s because it isn\u2019t (a penalty). I think he still doesn\u2019t know if it was a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rayo found a way to even the match with goals from Florian Lejeune in the 84th and Alem\u00e3o in the ninth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Sociedad, winless in three league games, stayed in eighth place while Rayo moved to 11th.<\/p>\n
In the fight against relegation, Sevilla’s struggles continued as it conceded two late goals in a 2-1 loss at Osasuna.<\/p>\n
Neal Maupay put the visitors ahead in the 69th but ninth-placed Osasuna rallied with goals from Ra\u00fal Garc\u00eda in the 80th and Alejandro Catena deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n
It was the fifth loss in six matches for Sevilla.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the chance of winning at a tough place,\u201d Sevilla coach Luis Garc\u00eda Plaza said. \u201cThe team played well but again it was for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coach loudly complained about the nine minutes of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Osasuna had won only one of its last seven matches.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Elche moved further away from the drop zone with a 2-1 win at last-placed Oviedo.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth win in five matches for Elche, which reached 38 points, four more than 18th-placed Sevilla. Sevilla was one point behind Mallorca, the first team outside the drop zone.<\/p>\n
Oviedo stayed seven points from safety.<\/p>\n
Barcelona increased its league lead to 11 points by winning 2-0 at Getafe on Saturday. Second-place Real Madrid drew 1-1 at Real Betis on Friday.<\/p>\n
Third-place Villarreal had a 2-1 win over Celta Vigo, giving American defender Alex Freeman, son of former Super Bowl winner Antonio Freeman, a victory in his first La Liga start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Rayo Vallecano rallied late to draw 3-3 with Real Sociedad on Sunday in a Spanish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1632,7792,7791,7796,7795,1754,4690,7794,1561,1562,7790,1558,1560,1559,7793,109,7577],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seville","tag-alejandro-catena","tag-alex-freeman","tag-antonio-freeman","tag-florian-lejeune","tag-inigo-perez","tag-luis-garcia","tag-mikel-oyarzabal","tag-neal-maupay","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pedro-diaz","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-raul-garcia","tag-seville","tag-var-rayo-sociedad-la-liga-sevilla-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}