He Real Betis will try to correct course and top group C of the UEFA Europa League this Thursday at Cyprus before the one Aris Limassol which a priori seems to be the sweet expert of the group but which at the moment is leading it with the Prague Spartathanks to the 4 goals scored, by two of the green and whites and the Rangersas the four teams are tied on three points, with one win and one loss and have the same ‘goal average’ in the classification.
He Legs started this group stage losing 1-0 in Glasgow with Rangers on the first day, where Sparta Prague won against 3-2 Aris. In the second, Betis came back to win the match 2-1 Spartawhile the Cypriots won by the same score of Rangerstherefore the four teams are equal on three points and there is no difference in goals for and against.
The group of Manuel Pellegrinion paper, should leave their classification intact in this doubleheader against the Cypriots, who they host in two weeks’ time in Benito Villamarinalthough they would do well not to count on it, away from home they have amassed a run of five games without a win, one in Glasgow, where they lost despite showing themselves superior to Rangers at different stages of the game, and four more in the League in Bilbao, Granada, Vitoria and Getafe, where they could not secure a win despite leading them all on the scoreboard, giving one defeat and three draws
Pellegrini recovered Guido and Willian Jose for this Thursday’s clash, he will definitely line up again Marc Roca as a left-footed center-back next to Pezzella – the only one available in Europe – and in midfield give the stripes of ownership to William Carvalho, with whom he appeared yesterday in the pre-match press conference, where the coach did not want to make reference to the imminent signing of the Greek central defender Socrates.
As for Aris Limassolindicate that the team led by the Belarusian coach Alexey Shilevsky is the current champion of the Cyprus league, a title it won for the first time in its 93-year history and in the previous rounds it scored six goals against Borisov Bat and Slovan Bratislava here in their fiefdom (6-2 in both cases), where Rangers also lost 2-1 and Rakow Czestochowa won 0-1, knocking the Cypriots out of the previous rounds of the Champions League.
Possible lineups:
Aris Limassol: Vaná Alves; Boakye, Brorsson, Urošević, Caju; Montnor, Struski, Morgan Brown, Bengtsson; Y. Gomis and Shaby Babicka.
Real Betis: Rui Silva; Aitor Ruibal, Pezzella, Marc Roca, Abner; Guido Rodríguez, William Carvalho; Luiz Henrique, Isco, Abde; and Ayoze or Willian José.
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
stadium: Limassol Stadium.
Time: 18.45 (Four)
Source: La Verdad
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