The stadium Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán will once again host, 25 years later, a championship clash between the Seville and the Oviedo. A final precedent from the 99-00 season which ended up giving rise to a controversy with Betis. The Nervionenses came to the meeting … corresponding to the thirty-fifth day of the championship, virtually relegated – they were eleven points behind Oviedo itself, which marked permanence – and they did not do their best to harm the green and white team. A situation that was taken as revenge for what happened years before, when Betis also lost against Sporting (0-1) to upset its eternal rival.
The Oviedo team got a head start on the hosts, taking most of the chances in the first half. Paulo Bento gave the visitors the lead in the 25th minute.taking advantage of the lazy local defense. After wasting countless chances to increase the score, in the next 45 seconds, Pompei (51′) and Losada (73′) scored to make the score 0-3. Frode Olsen, the Sevilla goalkeeper, even requested a change at half-time, not wanting to take part in a match in which his own supporters were celebrating his rival’s approach.
The Sevilla team caught up in the final stretch of the match.with goals from Loren and Olivera in the 75th and 78th minutes respectively, for the final 2-3. With that, and Betis’ 4-0 defeat at Mallorca, the Heliopolitans were five points from safety and nine more at stake. Eventually, the Verdiblancos were relegated and the distance between them and Oviedo was three points.
“Sevilla lost the category yesterday and signed their relegation to the Second Division with their defeat against Oviedo. And he did it in a way that was nothing short of suspicious. The Sevilla family had begged their players to let Oviedo win to harm their eternal rival. No sooner said than done. Yesterday the match did not take place because Sevilla wanted it that way. Theatrical movements and actions in favor of the rival revealed pantomime. Oviedo found no opposition and had up to ten chances to open the scoring, but the lack of success prevented outrageous numbers. The local work had an almost remarkable performance. The instructions were clear: no walking on the ground and dirty clothes, long passes with an advantage for the rival, shots into the opponent’s goal from outside the area and weak shots… A prank. At the break, despite the drama, it was achieved with a Pyrrhic zero to one.. Upon reboot, the setting has changed somewhat. Someone, with good judgment, warned Sevilla that the scene was shameless and that they were playing their part even better. Oviedo (who hadn’t won away from home since February last year) continued to feel comfortable and found themselves at one point in training with an unimaginable three-goal advantage in their favour. At that moment, they stopped the imitation, stepped on the accelerator and scored two goals that left a score that does not reflect the facts.” it was written on ABC.
Other precedents
To find other antecedents between white, red and blue, we would have to go back to medium of the 90sa time when the two groups coincided for several years First division. From the 93-94 season to the 96-97 season, Sevilla always managed to get at least one point in their home duels against Oviedo, scoring two victories (2-0 in 93-94 and 2-1 in 96-97) and two ties (1-1 during the 94-95 and 95-96 campaigns).
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