La Liga 25/26 - Matchday 7 - Sevilla FC at Rayo Vallecano

Great goal! Come on, guys!

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The effect it has had on Carmona being pushed slightly away from the area where his defensive and passing errors won’t have the same direct consequences and the fact that he seems to be riding on this success is very nice to see.

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Greek Goalie God

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Vlacho gives Bono vibes… new Bono?

Pity that it’s only a loan without a buy option

Sign the guy somehow!!!

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So where did all these extra minutes come from?

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Let’s go! Huge win!

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Odysseas was huge. Very glad we took the only clear chance we got all game. Way to finish Akor!

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Man it feels good getting this kind of victory! Fair play to Rayo and they will rightly be livid they didnt at least get a point. But finally it’s paying off chasing our luck!

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We “stole” this one.

Vlacho, Azpi, Marcao, Suazo and Cardoso = absolute rocks.

Januzaj sparked the match up a bit with dribbling and Akor sealed the win with a nice shot and goal.

Almeyda is turning the team into a cynical one, delaying gratification and fighting hard for points. This is what we terribly needed for all these years.

Hopefully we can keep the defense healthy and keep competing.

Golden 3 points away against a tough rival.

Vamos!!!

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A win is a win no matter how we achive it. But we looked so disjointed at times today. We couldn’t even get the basics right giving the ball away with misdirected passes, just lumping the ball anywhere without trying to find a Sevilla player.

A major improvement is required for next week otherwise we will be slaughtered.

With Nyland in goal we would have lost 3-1.

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lucky & huge 3 point for staying in la liga top half finish

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Now imagine if Cordon would’ve focused a bit more on the squad depth and quality vs. money for the board.

Heard that we will still need to sell in January, and honestly, it’s ok if we sell Juanlu at this point.

However, we need at least 2 reinforcements in January.

Both reinforcements in defense to keep up the engine, we can’t expect Azpi and Suazo to play at this level throughout the season, and I fear one change in the defensive structure and we’re fucked.

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Massive win. True grit shown there to survive their waves after wave attack. Then we showed great quality for the goal. We rode our luck a lot but credit to defence and keeper.

A moment of great quality for the goal. A great ball and great finish by Adams.

Amazing win and our away form is incredible right now.

On to the next one. Vamos!

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I think that’s what they call a smash and grab. A huge away win against a tough opponent even if we love playing them, especially with Barca up next. That gives us some breathing space and for me it’s a free hit against them.

We stole that from Rayo who had by far the better of the game and chances but Vlacho in goal was superb and constantly thwarted them with some great saves. I too think we would have lost if Nyland played. We also created nothing before the goal.

That said, we defended resiliently and in many ways that was the perfect away win. A winner of the highest quality also. Great ball into the box from Carmona and a super finish from Adams for his first goal for us!

The win moves us to 8th for now and onto 10 points from 7 games which is a very respectable start (has to be one of our best for a while) and maybe a quarter of the way to safety also if you go off the golden 40 target. Nine of the points have come away from home which is incredible. Almeyda doing a great job so far and all the new signings have done well. Proving a lot of us wrong I have to say!

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Carmona and Azpilicueta were huge today!

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Vlachodimos & Pliers already seems to be a massive upgrade on Nyland and Álvaro Fernandez from what I have seen so far.

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Folks - It’s good to wake up on a Monday and BE IN THE FUCKING TOP TEN OF LA LIGA!!!

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Big win away in Vallecas. Quite the smash and grab! Vlachodimos made some great saves, with that double save off the speculative shot being top billing. Feel like Almeyda’s brought a bit of steel and resilience to the team, despite the shaky defence.

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I just read an interesting statistic that Akor Adams’s goal this week was the first time a striker brought in by Victor Orta actually scored a goal in LaLiga.

Mariano, Veliz, Iheanacho and Adams.

Let’s hope the curse is broken.

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@frogusmaximus seems like the right time to bring you back into the conversation, lol

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