But Sevilla were in the ascendancy, and twice it took interventions from Chris Riggott and fit-again goalkeeper Mark Scharzer to deny Adriano Correia and Fabiano.
Meanwhile, the club is waiting for news on the condition of centre-back Chris Riggott, who hobbled off and was replaced by David Wheater in Sunday's game.
Chris Riggott was superb at the heart of the visitors' defence, throwing himself in front of Holland's late strike and denying Pablo Counago even a sniff of a goal all afternoon.
The La Liga side deserved to be ahead, and they opened the scoring after 26 minutes when Fabiano rose above Riggott to direct a header past the stranded Schwarzer from Alves' cross.