Sevilla, who need a win to maintain their Champions League chances, are aiming to deepen the slight improvement seen on the Argentine coach’s debut
There is no truce for Jorge Sampaoli. The Argentine coach arrived on the Seville bench just five days ago and is already facing the first final of his second stint with Pizjuán. The Sevilla team visits Borussia Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park, a real cauldron with its terrifying yellow wall. It does so with the urgent need to get a win so as not to say goodbye to the Champions League at the first substitution.
Lots of pressure for a side that showed slight signs of improvement on the new coach’s debut against Athletic. The start was overwhelming and invited the parish of Nervión to dream, but the Basque team eventually put things in place and were superior, despite Sevilla having the opportunity to even take the win in the final stretch. He will need much more if he is to storm the ‘Borussier’ fief, which even mighty Bayern failed to make the three points in Saturday’s Bundesliga game.
In any case, the situation has nothing to do with what Sevilla went through in the game against Dortmund in Pizjuán, with Julen Lopetegui on the bench despite the Basque coach knowing his office hours were numbered. Amid the noise, the Andalusian team weighed in on the power vacuum, paying with the German team’s big punch for the lack of miles of an axis of defense of the conditions, formed by native players José Ángel Carmona and Kike Salas . From the outset, Sampaoli bet on the hitherto unpublished Marcao and also on the young Nianzou, the two summer signings to replace the long-awaited Diego Carlos and Koundé.
The Brazilian may not be in his best form yet, weighed down by inactivity from his latest injuries, but at least he showed the hierarchy of a Champions-level centre-back. It will be essential against a rival with gunpowder galore. He showed it in Nervión with Jude Bellingham in charge of operations. The English midfielder is the center of gravity of the squad led by Edin Terzic, who also has the danger of Brandt and Adeyemi on the wings and the exuberance and goal of the young Moukoko, given the great opportunity to make the jump final his career awaiting the return of Haller, who is recovering from a testicular tumor.
Meanwhile, Fernando remains out of Sevilla, so the options Sampaoli has as a defensive midfielder go through Gudelj or Delaney. Moving on, Joan Jordán and Papu Gómez point to the interior profiles, with many opportunities for Lamela on the right side of Sevilla’s attack along with Dolberg and Isco since Óliver Torres, the best player in the game against Athletic, has not been entered in the Champions.
Source: La Verdad
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