third-placed Atletico Madrid in LaLiga after a 2-0
victory over lowly Granada at Ramon Sanchez
Pizjuan on Friday.
With a top-three spot bypassing next season's
Champions League play-off round, Sevilla and
Atleti have been battling for third place for months
- Diego Simeone's men pulling ahead in recent
weeks.
But Jorge Sampaoli's side hit back here, scoring at
the start of each half through Ganso, with the first
goal arriving after Vicente Iborra had kick-started a
dominant performance by striking the crossbar.
Ganso forced a fourth-minute finish past Guillermo
Ochoa at the near post and Stevan Jovetic then
saw a goal disallowed for a marginal offside call.
Pablo Sarabia narrowly missed with Sevilla's next
effort and Joaquin Correa headed too close to the
goalkeeper, before the second finally arrived after
46 minutes when Ganso turned a low cross home.
46' | GOOOOOAAAAAAL! @phganso bags
his second to double the lead! #SevillaFC
2-0 @GranadaCdeF_en #vamosmisevilla
#SevillaFCGranada pic.twitter.com/
XDpezkSoUM
— Sevilla FC (@SevillaFC_ENG) April 21,
2017
Ochoa smartly denied Ganso a hat-trick moments
later and another very harsh offside flag ruled out
Correa's strike, but the hosts cruised to victory to
put pressure on Atleti, who travel to Espanyol on
Saturday.
The result leaves Tony Adams' Granada seven
points from safety with five matches left to play.
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