He Real Betis overcame a terrible start to the match Elche and managed to turn the 2-0 on the scoreboard just eight minutes later, after Iglesias Villanueva signaled -at the request of VAR- a minor penalty for a slight step on Abner and Lucas Boyeafter about a minute, i was surprised claudio bravo with a loud explosion from outside the area.
The clash was put as soon as possible in front of the people of Elche, who really came out with a march more than Betis in these first bars of the game, hanging around the Bravo area and as soon as season spawned a carousel of controversial plays that accompanied Iglesias Villanueva’s decisions throughout the night.
those of pellegrini they didn’t enter the game until 20 minutes, enjoying themselves Ayoze (22′) from a good chance to close the gap and then Guardado (42′) with another shot placed but weakly stopping a photogenic popcorn Edgar Badiawho eventually became the best in his team.
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The three changes introduced by pellegrini at halftime, bringing on Borja Iglesias, Joaquín and Miranda, gave the desired result and Betis came to completely dominate the situation, Joaquín (51′) and Ayoze (52′) enjoying two good chances to close the gap, before that in 57′ Fekir forced Magallán to be sent off due to some hands on the edge of the area aborting a clear chance to score, an action for which the referee initially showed a yellow card but after consulting the happy VAR decided to send off the local player with a direct red amid public protests.
Five minutes after being in numerical superiority, Ayoze took the first penalty -very clearly- in favor of Betis which was converted by Borja Iglesias, and just three minutes later a shot from Miranda went into Badía’s goal – VAR through- with more than twenty-two minutes left in the match. Badía saved Borja’s second penalty in the 88′, William José missed a good chance right under their noses in the 90′ and in the 94′ he did nothing before the third penalty awarded to Béticos (with Enzo Roco included) that changed. william joseph and leaves Pellegrini’s men just one point behind the Champions League positions and Machín’s men a foot and a half in the Second Division.
| Elche | Real Betis |
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2 |
3 |
| 13 Edgar Badia |
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1 claudio bravo |
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| 14 H. Palacios |
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24 A. Ruibal |
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| 3 E. Rock |
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16 Mr. Pezzella |
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| 7 Lysander Magellan |
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19 Luis Felipe 81′ |
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| 23 C. Clerc 75′ |
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(6 v. Ruiz) |
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| (8 Raul Guti) |
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twenty Abner Vinicius 46′ |
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| twenty-one omar mascarell |
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(17 Joaquin) |
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| twenty Mr. Gumbau 75′ |
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14 W. Carvalho |
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| (2 L. White) |
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18 A. Saved |
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| Eleven Tete Morente 66′ |
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Eleven Luis Henrique 46′ |
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| (4 Diego Gonzalez) |
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(33 J. Miranda) |
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| 9 L. Boyé |
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8 N. Fekir |
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| 16 Fidel 81′ |
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7 Juanmi 46′ |
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| (22 Nico Fernandez) |
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(9 Borja Iglesias) |
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| 19 E. Ponce 74′ |
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twenty-one Ayoze 85′ |
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| (17 josan) |
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(12 william joseph) |
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The objectives:(1-0) Fidel (7′), (2-0) L. Boyé (9′), (2-1) Borja Iglesias (65′), (2-2) J. Miranda (68′), ( 2-3) Willian José (95′)
cards:L Abner Vinicius (6′), E. Roco (34′), G. Gumbau (45′), H. Palacios (93′)L Lisandro Magallan (57′), P. Cheikh (58′), E. Roco (94′)
Referee: Javier Iglesias Villanueva
Spectators: 20,643 to Martínez Valero
| THE BEST The courage of an Elche without a prize | |
| WORST The franjiverde key failure |
Source: La Verdad
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