Iglesias sinks Valencia — and three days later, the axe fell
Juan Iglesias's 81st-minute header gave Sevilla a 1-0 win that lifted them toward the top of La Liga and finished Carlos Corberán's reign at winless, bottom-placed Valencia.
One header decided the match; the consequences ran much deeper. Juan Iglesias rose in the 81st minute at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán on Friday, meeting Giorgi Kochorashvili's cross after a set piece, and Sevilla beat Valencia 1-0 on matchday 5 — a result that, within days, cost the visitors their head coach and their football CEO.
The match
The pattern was set early and never changed: Valencia kept the ball, Sevilla created with it. The hosts out-shot Valencia 13 to 3 despite conceding a majority of possession (45.7% to 54.3%), according to LALIGA's official match data, in front of 39,939. For 80 minutes Valencia's back line held; then a set-piece sequence broke down, Kochorashvili delivered, and Iglesias headed home from the centre of the box.
The win moved Sevilla to 10 points from five matches and provisional third, as reported by The Sports Encounter.
The fallout in Valencia
Valencia left Seville bottom of the table with one point from five games, one goal scored and ten conceded. Within 72 hours the club acted: head coach Carlos Corberán and his staff were dismissed, and football CEO Ron Gourlay departed alongside several executives, with reserve-team coach Óscar Sánchez taking interim charge. The club said the changes open "a new phase" for its sporting structure, with a fuller reorganisation to be announced.
Why it matters
For Sevilla, this is the kind of ugly-efficient home win that title-adjacent seasons are built on. For Valencia, it is a familiar story turned grim: another September, another reset, and now a relegation fight that has arrived before the leaves have.