With one player less for more than an hour, he knocked out Lille tonight in Balaídos, a benchmark in Ligue 1, to confirm his move to at least the play off which gives access to the round of 16 of the Europa League. The Vigo team did not care about being at a disadvantage to overcome the fifth-placed team in France and add their fourth consecutive victory. It is a compact block, which concedes very little and punishes as little as possible. Victory is essential to visit Red Star next week in the hell of Belgrade with the remote possibility of even sneaking into the top-8 of the league phase, the positions that allow them to go directly to the round of 16 and not play in the previous round.
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Ionut Radu, Carl Starfelt, Javi Rodal, Alonso, Javi Rueda, Miguel Roma, Hugo Sotelo, Migueza (Alvarez Hugo. 88). Aspads (Serpents Serge, min. 45) and Iglesh Standards (During Pall, min. 45)
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Berke özer, Alexandro Ribeiro (Mataias Fernandez-Pardo, Min. 45), Nathan Ngoy, Thomas Meunier (Tiago Santos, Min. (Sorba Diaoune, Mis. 73), Hákon Haraldsson y Olivier Giroud
Goals
1-0 min. 0: Williot Swedberg. 2-0 min. 68: Carl Starfelt. 2-1 min. 85: Giroud
Referee Harm Osmers
yellow cards
Marcos Alonso (min. 30), Nathan Nathan (min. 31), Óscar Mingueza (min. 32), Mandi (min. 39), Willioot Swedberg (min. 63), Radu (min. 80)
red cards
Hugo Sotelo (min. 28)
With Ilaix suspended and Fran Beltrán sold to Girona in this winter market, Giráldez left with almost the only thing he had for the midfield, while Aspas, Swedberg The game had not even completed the first minute when Alexsandro gave Celta the first goal. The center back tried to change direction, but his movement hit Borja Iglesias and the ball fell to Aspas in an unbeatable position in the one-on-one against Ozer. The captain made the best decision by assisting Swedberg to score at will into an empty goal.
The goal blurred LOSC and emboldened Celta. The French’s feet were shaking when the ball was released while the light blue team launched suffocating pressure all over the field in search of a turnover with which to punish their rival. Giráldez’s team created an action that was as effective as it was beautiful when they braided and braided with the first touch until Aspas received it alone in the center of the field. The striker filtered a fantastic pass between the centre-back and the full-back to put Javi Rueda in flight, who gave Borja the 2-0, but the VAR decreed that the full-back had a few centimeters of his body offside.
With the match and the game under control, Sotelo made a mistake by stepping on Mandi’s Achilles tendon. The action was the result of clumsiness more than excessive violence, but Celta was left with one less player in the 29th minute after the VAR review. Giráldez replaced Aspas and Swedberg in the center to accompany Miguel Román. The team did not get overwhelmed until the last attacks of the first half, when Radu had to make his first stretch in response to a shot from Mandi while Starfelt, who had a formidable game, frustrated the shot attempts
At half-time, the sky blue coach removed Aspas for a winger like Carreira and Borja for a forward who works as hard as Durán. The group, which had only conceded one goal in the previous four games, once again showed extraordinary defensive strength. Starfelt scored the second from a corner in the 69th minute and Celta produced a fabulous exercise of resistance while El-Abdellaoui and Hugo Álvarez gave oxygen from the bench. Giroud’s goal came so late that Lille left Vigo empty-handed despite being in the lead for almost the entire match.
