SEVILLA, KOMPAS.com - Laga babak 16 pertama Liga Champions antara Sevilla dan Manchester United di Stadion Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan berakhir imbang tanpa gol, Rabu (21/2/2018) atau Kamis dini hari WIB.
Hasil imbang ini menjadi modal positif Manchester United untuk lolos ke perempat final. Pada laga kedua, pasukan Jose Mourinho itu bakal menjadi tuan rumah di Stadion Old Trafford, 13 Maret 2018.
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Pada laga ini, Sevilla sebenarnya tampil lebih mendominasi. Mereka memiliki penguasaan bola hingga 54 persen.
Dari segi peluang, tuan rumah 25 kali berusaha menjebol gawang David De Gea berbanding enam peluang Manchester United yang mengancam gawang Sevilla.
Dari jumlah itu, Sevilla punya 8 tembakan tepat sasaran berbanding satu milik tim tamu. Namun, penampilan apik De Gea di bawah mistar gawang Setan Merah menggagalkan semua usaha pasukan Vincenzo Montella.
8 - David de Gea has made eight saves against Sevilla, the most for a Manchester United goalkeeper in a Champions League game since Edwin van der Sar vs Barcelona in May 2011 (8). Hero. pic.twitter.com/OpxZQSzK9p
World class is an over used term in football and maybe with Paul Pogba that has been the case but there is no doubt that Manchester United have at least one player worthy of that status as goalkeeper David De Gea once again demonstrated his importance as he kept his team in this Champions League tie.
Two superb saves from headers, the second breathtaking, at the end of the first half denied Sevilla who had countless other opportunities against an at times over-run United side who nevertheless go into the second leg of this last-16 encounter on March 13 as favourites to progress into the quarter-finals.
Or maybe not if they play like this because for all of Jose Mourinho’s post-match protestations about his team being in control that was simply not the case while it is dispiriting that, once more, the United manager’s pre-occupation was to try and stop the opposition rather than impose him team on them.
The visitors looked pedestrian, conservative, restrained; a team lacking in verve. It was a far cry, for example, from the way Liverpool destroyed Porto away last week. And surely United cannot keep relying on De Gea?
In fact Mourinho congratulated himself on how his midfield had controlled the Sevilla playmaker Ever Banega – not quite true – and he lauded his decision to field Scott McTominay from the start, and as competently as the promising young Scot did perform, he is an essentially destructive, rather than constructive, player.
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