alexis sanchez scored after coming on at halftime, and Sevilla beat Real Sociedad 1-0 at the S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n to move out of the relegation zone. Isaac Romero made way for S\u00e1nchez in the 46th minute, and the substitute finished the only goal in a match Sevilla needed to treat as a relegation six-pointer.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez changes Sevilla\u2019s night<\/p>\n
Sevilla had pushed early. By the 30th minute, they had 9 shots and 4 shots on target, while Real Sociedad had 0 shots, but the breakthrough did not come until S\u00e1nchez entered and turned the pressure into a winner. The goal arrived after Maupay helped in the buildup, and that was enough to settle a game that had been framed as a final for survival.<\/p>\n
Luis Garc\u00eda\u2019s side also had a goal by Agoum\u00e9 ruled out, which left Sevilla needing another route to the result. S\u00e1nchez found it quickly after the interval, then picked up a yellow card in the 76th minute, the kind of small late detail that fit a tight match rather than a free-flowing one. <\/p>\n
Real Sociedad leave empty-handed<\/p>\n
Real Sociedad never produced a shot in the first 30 minutes, and that slow start left Sevilla in control of the tempo even before the decisive finish. The visitors arrived with a season described as practically made after winning the cup title, but they still left the S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n without the point that might have complicated Sevilla\u2019s rescue job.<\/p>\n
The bigger shift came at full time. Sevilla were in the relegation places before kickoff and left them after the 1-0 win, with S\u00e1nchez\u2019s substitute\u2019s goal doing the work that early possession alone could not finish. For Sevilla, that means the margin for error is slightly wider now, and for S\u00e1nchez it was a first decisive league-night statement in the exact kind of match the club could not afford to waste. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"alexis sanchez scored after coming on at halftime, and Sevilla beat Real Sociedad 1-0 at the S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9599,9596,9597,3730,1846,2729,327,109,9598],"class_list":{"0":"post-17202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seville","8":"tag-1-0","9":"tag-alexis","10":"tag-beat","11":"tag-real","12":"tag-sanchez","13":"tag-scores","14":"tag-sevilla","15":"tag-seville","16":"tag-sociedad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17202","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=17202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}