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Seville (Spain): Sevilla were good enough to beat Athletic Club 1-0 and remain on the heels of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the race for the La Liga title here.<\/p>\nSeville (Spain): Sevilla were good enough to beat Athletic Club 1-0 and remain on the heels of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the race for the La Liga title here.<\/p>\n
Athletic, meanwhile, suffered their ninth consecutive away loss on Thursday, squandering an opportunity to snatch seventh place from Eibar, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The visitors came into the match having won only once at Seville’s Sanchez Pizjuan since the turn of the 21st century and facing a side that has won all but two of their home games this season.<\/p>\n
Between them, the two teams were missing 10 starters to injury and suspension.<\/p>\n
Sevilla started aggressively and Steven Jovetic created a pair of early chances. On the first occasion, his header went just over the crossbar. Then Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz made the stop on the second shot.<\/p>\n
The hosts took the lead in the 14th minute, as Vicente Iborra pounced on the rebound after Iraizoz saved Jovetic’s penalty kick.<\/p>\n
From that point on, however, Athletic were the better team, but their inability to finish doomed them to defeat.<\/p>\n
The victory brings Sevilla to 55 points from 25 matches, just one less than Real Madrid — who have a game in hand — and two behind league leader Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Athletic Club, with 38 points, are still in the fight for Europa League spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seville (Spain): Sevilla were good enough to beat Athletic Club 1-0 and remain on the heels of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the race for the La Liga title here.<\/p>\n
Athletic, meanwhile, suffered their ninth consecutive away loss on Thursday, squandering an opportunity to snatch seventh place from Eibar, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The visitors came into the match having won only once at Seville’s Sanchez Pizjuan since the turn of the 21st century and facing a side that has won all but two of their home games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21683,1958,12975,466,3604,1475,2231],"class_list":["post-33794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-athletic-club","tag-barcelona","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-sevilla"],"yoast_head":"\n