Jorge Sampaoli, Sevilla coach, is waiting for an Osasuna that was interrupted in their participation on Wednesday in the Copa del Rey semifinal against Athletic. The Andalusian team is looking for its fifth consecutive win at home (sixth including the Europa League) to avoid falling back to compromised positions in the league table, but it is doing so with a very depleted team and a lot of accumulated fatigue after playing in Thursday in Eindhoven, where they fell to PSV but went through 3-0 in the first leg.
“The idea is to see which players are fresher, it will be a difficult game and we have to win, knowing that we had a little time with what happened in Eindhoven, in the game, the breakdown and the journey “, explained the Sevilla coach.
“We must solve the situations and the imponderables, which are many, in a squad that does not have many troops today and has to dose many times in recovery. Now a series of games will come and many players that we do not have reliable”, added the Argentine, who is waiting for an Osasuna with great intensity: “We hope to subdue them through the game, to play the game we did in. the first 75 minutes again from Eindhoven. With this, they beat a rival with a great collective commitment, very competitive, strong, and handles set pieces well. All this puts him in a very valid situation in the Liga and in the semifinal of the Copa del Rey”.
Sampaoli, however, and despite the fact that the rivalries between Sevilla and Osasuna are traditionally very difficult and hot, he does not believe that the event will serve as revenge for the departure of his team from the Copa del Rey. “No, we think we have to play a game with a lot of evolution of the game. They are great rivals and we have to surprise them and take them out of their plan where they are very strong. They are close to what will happen on Wednesday in the Cup and we have to manage situations from control and from attacks”.
Finally, he refers to the case of Enríquez Negreira, although he avoids delving into the subject.
“It’s a case I don’t know deeply. If the evidence is true, tarnishing football and this League in this way is very rude. Reducing this game, stopping fair play is very serious and a huge loss of prestige for this League. Unfortunately for soccer, many people save up all week to buy soccer tickets. He is such a cheater and a taint of the ball,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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