Sevilla Continues Dropping Points with Draw Against Levante

Sevilla continued to squander points after returning from the Levante stadium with a disappointing 3-3 draw, having twice surrendered a lead in the eighth round of the Spanish football league. Sevilla opened the scoring through Scotland’s Robbie Brady (13th minute), before extending their advantage with a goal from Portugal’s Fekir (54th minute). Levante reduced the deficit thanks to Ivan Romero (57th minute), before equalizing through Adrian de la Fuente (90+2nd minute). The match did not end there. At a time when the Andalusian club believed it had snatched all three points with a late goal from substitute Isaac Romero (90+5th minute), who was sent off a minute later after receiving a second yellow card, Levante responded with a decisive equalizer through Ivani Ndokou (90+10th minute). This was the second match in which Sevilla failed to secure three points, following their full defeat (3-1) to league leaders Barcelona in the previous round before the international break, leaving them frozen at 14 points in fifth place. Meanwhile, Levante failed to win for a fourth consecutive match, a run that included two losses and two draws, leaving them in 17th place with six points from one win, three draws, and three defeats.

In Italy, Atalanta returned to the path of victories after three consecutive defeats, beating bottom-placed Venezia, who remained winless, 3-1, in the final match of the sixth round of the Italian league. Atalanta sealed the result in the first half by scoring three goals, two of them within two minutes. The opening goal came from Ivory Coast’s Franck Kessié, returning to Italy from Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahli (4th minute), assisted by Montenegrin Nikola Krstović, who doubled the score (6th minute). Krstović then added his second personal goal and Atalanta’s third (30th minute). This was Krstović’s third goal in the league this season, and his first since the winning goal against Sassuolo (2-1) in the opening round. Venezia reduced the deficit before the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, through Frenchman Antoine Izzo (37th minute). The second half saw the dismissal of the home side’s attacking midfielder, Macedonian Eljif Elmas, who provided the assist for the opening goal, receiving a red card one minute before the end of regular time. Atalanta had previously suffered three consecutive defeats in Serie A against Roma and Cagliari (both 1-2) and Juventus (0-2) before the international break, following two consecutive wins at the start of the competition against Sassuolo and Bologna (1-0). With this victory, Atalanta increased their tally to nine points, sitting in 10th place with three wins and three defeats, deepening the wounds of Venezia, who remain winless after suffering their sixth consecutive defeat to sit in last place. Torino secured their second win of the season, defeating visitors Udinese 2-1.