Juventus and Sevilla are drawn in the UEFA Europa League semi-finals

Juventus It is Seville had a great duel for the first game of the semifinal of the UEFA Europe League. playing at home Juventus Stadium in Turin, the Italian team lost but at the end of the match managed the equalizing goal. Ending the match 1-1.

The first half was quite busy with chances for both teams: Sevilla had their first attempt with the Argentine ocampos that in a head touch the ball ended up in the hands of the goalkeeper Szczesny. Juventus squandered two good chances with their attacking duo Serbia: first with Kostic and the other with vlahovic who, upon receiving the pass from his compatriot, came face to face with the goalkeeper bonou but when it was time to finish, he sent the ball over the goal.

In the 25th minute, the Spaniards opened the scoring: Ocampus took the ball at speed down the right, the Argentine crossed low and the ball found the Moroccan feet En-Nesiry make 1 to 0.

And even in advantage and playing away from home, Sevilla continued to go up and almost did not increase the score with Rakitic who took a risk from outside the area and forced Szczesny to make a good save. And again En-Nesyri appeared who also risked from outside and the ball scraped the Polish goalkeeper’s crossbar.

Still in the first half, the Spanish team was forced to make a change: Ocampus, who was one of the most participatory players in the first half and author of the pass to Sevilla’s goal, left the field due to physical problems, giving way to another Argentine, the lateral Montiel.

_{En-Nesyri celebrating his goal. Reproduction: (Photo/Getty Images)}

In the second half, Juventus came back with two changes: they left Kostic It is Miretti and entered chiesa It is Iling Junior. The Italians went for it, and throughout the second stage they had possession of the ball, Sevilla decided to close in on the defense, but lacked creativity and the pace of the game decreased compared to the first half.

The coach Maximiliano Allegri made two more moves at the same time: the defender entered Gatti instead of Bonucciand the attacker Milik in Vlahovic’s vacancy. But Juventus didn’t threaten Sevilla’s goal, the team exchanged passes but didn’t create good moves.

The last card of the Italian coach was the entry of pogba instead of Angel Di Maria. In the final moments the juve tried to press even more, there was even a complaint about a penalty from the defender bucket on top of the steering wheel Rabiotthe arbitration ignored the bid and there wasn’t even a VAR consultation, generating a lot of revolt.

Arriving at 45 minutes, the referee added another six minutes and precisely in the last minute the Italian team managed a corner kick, in the collection of three headers: first with the Brazilian Danilo which was later left to Pogba on the right, and after the Frenchman’s slip, it ended up in defender Gatti who sent it to the net, tying the match 1 to 1 in the end.

_{Juventus defender Gatti heads the ball to score the equalizer. Playback: Photo (Getty Images)}

Next Thursday the two teams will face each other again in the Ramon Sanchez Stadium Pizjuán in Seville, at 16 pm (Brasília time), qualifying for a place in the grand finale. Next Sunday (14th), the two teams still enter for their respective championships: Sevilla plays away from home against valladolid at 13:30 (Brasília time) by Spanish Championshipand Juventus plays at home against Cremonese at 15:45 on Italian Championship.

Photo highlights the duel of two players from Juventus and Sevilla. Playback/Reuters