Betis need a victory tomorrow in San Mamés. The Verdiblanco team arrived after adding just four points in the last 18 games. Manuel Pellegrini recognized the importance of winning the game that starts at ten o’clock in the evening. “Of course, success is needed more than ever to continue the contention for places in Europe. After three years we had a brief slump in terms of games. We are still in positions in Europe, analyzing the data that I think there are only two better campaigns than this one, but this drop in results is undoubtedly worrying. There are reasons, bad moments during a game but the team always tries to compete. We were dismissed, injuries… but in any case we did not lower our heads, we continued to fight in exactly the same way until the last date to try to qualify for Europe for the third time in a row, something that is not ever done in history”, said the Chilean coach in the previous one to visit Bilbao. “The team is intact, it will continue to fight for that achievement regardless of the names to be played,” he added.
The Chilean means that the key is to recover the lost regularity “that we have shown in the last three seasons” and expects a very close match. “It will be a highly contested game because there are two teams that are playing for a place in Europe. San Mamés is a special field, it’s very crowded, it’s an audience that vibrates a lot with football, it’s something I really like. A game with two teams with different styles, but both looking for the same goal”, he said.
Pellegrini confirmed that sometimes, Borja Iglesias and Joaquin They are traveling to Bilbao. The first two will come into the call and in the case of the third, he will wait until tomorrow to see how he is from the slight knee sprain suffered on Saturday at the Camp Nou. In these situations, the casualties of the central defenders are on him Louis Philippe and Victor Ruizwounded, and Edgar, sanctioned, and to Nabil Fekir, a key man in the midfield. The technician had problems configuring his eleven on the rear axis. “The more players I have, the better for me even if I have to leave three or four important players. Every injury is a bigger difficulty but we don’t use it as an excuse for not achieving results. There’s a team that needs to show their face, always has.”
The coach was also asked if this was his most difficult moment in leading Betis. You don’t think so. “It is very important not to confuse the moments. Betis is sixth in 32, if you look at the whole story backwards it was very difficult to achieve this. This is not the worst moment for me or for Betis in its history. We are in a long-awaited position, in recent weeks we have had some negative results that all teams have. It’s not normal for a team to not have a bump in results. We are experiencing this but we are not in crisis and we are not fighting relegation and we do not believe that we are a disaster. We lost the match because of the lack of regularity in the match”, he stated.
Source: La Verdad
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