Sevilla took a step closer to finishing in La Liga\u2019s top four on Sunday as Jules Kounde\u2019s 96th-minute equaliser snatched a 1-1 draw away at Villarreal.<\/p>\n
Villarreal thought they had won it at La Ceramica when Giovani Lo Celso scored with four minutes of normal time remaining, but Sevilla grabbed a dramatic equaliser to boost their hopes of securing Champions League qualification next term.<\/span><\/p>\n Sevilla stay third in the table, seven points ahead of city rivals Real Betis in fifth, with three games left to play.<\/span><\/p>\n After their superb run to the Champions League semi-finals, Villarreal are making a late push for next season\u2019s Europa League but Kounde\u2019s strike means they sit three points behind Real Sociedad in sixth.<\/span><\/p>\n Unai Emery\u2019s team thought they had the lead before the hour when Kounde sent a looping header into his own net, only for the own-goal to be ruled out when Villarreal\u2019s Boulaye Dia, who had pressured Kounde, was shown to have been offside.<\/span><\/p>\n Villarreal did make the breakthrough in the 86th minute as a weaving run by Etienne Capoue teed up Alfonso Pedraza to cross, the ball spilling out for Lo Celso to volley into the ground and in.<\/span><\/p>\n But with six minutes of injury-time to find an equaliser, Sevilla added a late twist as their goalkeeper Bono ventured up for a late corner and as the ball was headed down in the six-yard box, the lurking Kounde poked in.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sevilla took a step closer to finishing in La Liga\u2019s top four on Sunday as Jules Kounde\u2019s 96th-minute equaliser snatched a 1-1 draw away at Villarreal. Villarreal thought they had won it at La Ceramica when Giovani Lo Celso scored with four minutes of normal time remaining, but Sevilla grabbed a dramatic equaliser to boost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[586,1444,2319,4720],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-la-liga","tag-sevilla","tag-top-four","tag-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}