Ipurua's team won a match that Lopetegui's team had in their hand but that Vaclik and Diego Carlos gave away.
Eibar achieved their first victory of the season thanks to a comeback that will go down in arms history, after Sevilla passed over the locals in the first half, and that Mendilibar's team gave them courage, intensity and success in a memorable second half that raises the morale of the locals and touches Lopetegui's (3-2). [Narration and statistics: Eibar 3-2 Sevilla]
The match began somewhat jammed, with quite a few fouls in the first few minutes, and with the two teams trying to get a grip on the ball that they did not achieve due to pressure from the opponent. Little by little, the Eibar seemed to take control of the game, before a crouched Sevilla that waited for its possibility looking for the back of the advanced defenders of the Eibar.
In fact, this is how Ocampos' goal arrived in the 10th minute, after a huge mistake by Ramis that the sevillistas took advantage of to get ahead in the scoreboard with a pass in depth that the Argentinian did not miss. The ghosts of this beginning of season flew over Ipurua again, with avoidable errors that become gifts for the rival.
The Eibar accused the blow, and shortly after Munir almost scored after Dmitrovic measured badly an exit from his own area. Sevilla found in the nervousness of Eibar his own tranquility, and began to disarbolar the local pressure with good ball exits, and making Mendilibar suffer, who did not see where to attack Lopetegui.
The whole team from Seville got the ball so well, that in several touches it reached the rival area, and Munir's shot went to the crossbar, in a few minutes in which Eibar was totally at the mercy of a very good Sevilla. Mendilibar's anger at what he was seeing was evident, and in fact, after half an hour of play gave entry to Escalante to the detriment of an Inui, who was not right.
But not for those. In fact, a few seconds after the change, Sevilla scored the second goal, exploiting again the spaces left behind by the defense armor. Oliver Torres scored his first goal in Liga, passing from the right wing of an omnipresent Ocampos.
An unknown Eibar in the first half
Even the crosses on the flank didn't work out well for Eibar on the few occasions he managed to reach three quarters of the field. The locals needed a goal before half-time to get back into the game, but the result seemed to have discharged the batteries of an imprecise and rather unknown Eibar in Ipurua.
In the restart, Mendilibar left Ramis in the dressing room and gave in to De Blasis, perhaps trying to have more speed both in defense and on the right wing with the Argentine. The Eibar stretched a little more in the first stretch of the second half, although their arrivals were timid and did not seem to put too many constraints on the defense of Sevilla.
Anyway, the Eibar was more faithful to itself and managed to put more centers to the area in a few minutes than in the whole first half, in the hope of the comeback and with an audience that jaleaba to theirs trying to give them an extra energy.
Orellana cut distances
Dmitrovic was unpublished in the second half, and Orellana tried without success from afar, leaving patent the sterile improvement until that moment of the Eibar in the restart. The Chilean was the object of a clear penalty in the 64th minute by Kunde that Orellana himself was responsible for materializing to shorten distances and bring his team back into the game.
Eibar were 20 minutes away from the end of the comeback, and the fact is that the gunsmiths looked like a different team in the second half, hammering the Sevilla area again and again from the flanks, to the delight of the audience. In the 75th minute, Eibar had a foul on the edge of the away area, but Orellana ran into the barrier.
But, a minute later, Vaklik made a serious defensive mistake that Eibar took advantage of in Pedro Leon's boots to equalise a match that seemed lost at half-time for Mendilibar's side, who still had 15 minutes to go.
Lopetegui did not believe what he was watching from his bench, and his face reflected the logical concern to see what was happening in the green of Ipurua. And the lace came in the 81st minute, when Cote scored a direct free-kick to culminate a heroic comeback by an Eibar who never stopped believing in himself.
Sevilla had no choice but to throw the rest to save at least a draw, although the locals did not want to allow it for anything in the world. Lopetegui's team did not have time and left Ipurua with a painful defeat that seemed unthinkable after the great first half of the Sevillians.