The noise around the Basque coach’s sacking and the arrival of Sampaoli mark the crucial game against Dortmund in Pizjuán with no margin of error
Sevilla play much of their Champions League opportunities against Borussia Dortmund in the Sanchez Pizjuan, but rarely does a duel of such importance come so conditioned by what happens off the pitch. Julen Lopetegui has been convicted and will sit on the Andalusian bench for the last time, awaiting the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli, the one chosen to replace him in office and to take the wheel around the erratic trajectory of the Andalusian team so far. try to turn.
This interim situation does not seem the most appropriate for facing a game with no margin of error, exhausted by the scoreless draw in Copenhagen after the beating against mighty Manchester City in Nervión. With the English champions at cruising speed, second in the group looks like a heads-up between Sevilla and Dortmund, but the Germans arrive with three points to their name, so a stumbling block in their own fief would make the long-awaited pass almost impossible to the round of 16 and would leave the Andalusian team in the Champions gutter at the first substitution, as happened last season.
Losses in defense don’t make the job any easier and make the solid Sevilla of yesteryear the vulnerable side it is today. Marcao and Rekik will not face Dortmund, while Acuña and Fernando have serious doubts due to their physical problems, so Lopetegui’s options in his last squad as Sevilla coach have been reduced. Meanwhile, the ‘borussier’ team, which has just stumbled against Cologne in the Bundesliga and has not yet finished taking off in the German championship, are also victims, with Hummels, Reus, Wolf, Dahoud, Reyna and Morey in the infirmary. for various reasons.
Source: La Verdad
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