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By Rick Sharma
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Philippe Coutinho scored two goals to allow Barcelona to make a superb comeback and a 6-1 win over Sevilla on Wednesday and to advance to the semi-finals of the Spain Cup after a 6-3 overall victory.
After losing 2-0 to Sevilla last week while their best players were resting, the Catalan team opened the scoring in the 13th minute through Coutinho's intermediary after a Quincy Promise penalty against Lionel Messi .
Messi gave the ball to the Brazilian who managed to kick him to end his period.
Sevilla nearly drew, but Jesper Celsen saved Andrei Silva from an opportunity and then the goalkeeper saved a penalty from Ever Paniga.
Gerard Becky made a mistake against Roque Mesa and after a long criticism of the match with the referee video, Argentina Panega shot the ball left but Celson kept it.
Barca equalized in the 32nd minute when Ivan Rakitic put the ball in the net against Juan Soriano after a superb pbad from Artur.
Two goals in two minutes helped the defending champions comfortably advance as Coutinho led the goal after Luis Suarez's cross, and Roberto Roberto sent Messi's pbad into the goal.
Guillermo Arana reduced Sevilla's lead with a powerful shot but Pablo Machin's team ended their hopes when Suarez put the ball in the net after a counter-attack and Messi added the sixth goal in stoppage. of play
A little earlier, Real Betis, host of the Benito Bayamarin final in May, had won 3-1 in Espanyol after an additional time to reach 4-2 overall.
Leo Batistau opened the scoring for Espanyol with a header in the 33rd minute, but Giovanni Lu Celso equalized in the 76th minute and overturned Mark Rocca.
In overtime, Betis took advantage of the numerical superiority. Sergio Lyon and Issa Mandi scored two goals to qualify for the semi-finals.
(Reuters)
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