Sevilla FC 3-3 Liverpool: 5 Talking Points

#2 Sevilla destroy the ‘gegenpress’

Banega ran the shots from midfield

What do you do when you’re up against a team that likes to press? You counter press. While there were moments where Liverpool threatened to make it more than just the three goals, the presence of someone like Johannes Geis at the back – usually a good distributor of the ball from the midfield – meant Sevilla could switch from defence to attack in mere seconds.

Geis impressed with his passing – an accuracy of 83% -- and helped evade the Liverpool counter press at times. Liverpool’s midfield might not get many things right, but they do know how to press, and Sevilla countered even that.

In front of Geis and Lenglet, Ever Banega was almost flawless in the second half and passed the away side to death. In fact at one point, such good was his ability that Liverpool decided to stop pressing and decided to play a low-block.

Banega obliged and controlled the game exceptionally well, which explains why Liverpool had such few chances in the second half, despite Sevilla chasing the game.