The Conference, the Champions, the semifinal, the fifth place, the final, LaLiga … has the Betis The bifocal lenses already always prepared. Divided attention that allows you to distribute your ambition on all fronts on which your candidacy presents. He doesn’t want to give up … Nothing, it doesn’t have to give up anything. Who guarantees that leaving aside something will go further in the other way? Maybe the opposite. What the players want at this point in the season is to play games. Not so much train. Short weeks, gusts that are not finished, immediate revalids. There will be rotation, as expected because it is already common in Pellegrini, and the main novelty that is pointed out is the ownership of William Carvalho. The first since he was injured on the third day against Leganés. These are moments to add. Everything is to be decided and everything will be known in three and a half weeks. Come on, there is nothing left and everything is really left. Because now is when the margin of error becomes step. Fifteen points at stake, a semifinal at the doors, the dream of a final like colophon. The season in 20 days.
The Villarreal, with his triumph yesterday against Osasuna (4-2) again demanded from the Verdiblancos a victory not to get off. The yellow is hard for this fight but nobody said it was going to be easy to finish fifth. If you want to break the roof of the Champions League with Pellegrini today you must win Betis. Demonstrate that his ambition is greater than that of his opponents. And assert that rotation that allows luxuries as to see Adrián, Jesus, Altimira or Lo Celso on the bench before the Fiorentina. Hence the strength and will to win today in Cornellá. To add three in a complicated field but this Betis is already coming to do it in Girona does anything and overcome the Valladolid with a win. That injection of desire in the search to conquer the Champions League territory is what moves a set that wants everything. All.
Pellegrini, as he always does, will rotate this afternoon against Espanyol. But this has ceased to be news to achieve the degree of custom. He always does it. Seven average changes between match and match from the derby on March 30. A succession of changes that makes 19 players felt holders in this section. Llorente fell, which integrates the casualties completed with the also injured Marc Roca and Chimy Ávila and with the sanctioned Aitor.
In this sense, it follows that Adrián will be a starter, as always happens in LaLiga. It is something that is repeated with the position of nine, with Cucho Hernández with the ironed shirt to leave and leave the European issue to Bakambu. The sides will change and will be Sabaly and Ricardo those that appear on the grass, in an alternation already studied. Bartra and Natan have no replacement in the central position, since Mendy played Friday with the subsidiary again without convincing and the alternatives are in the relocation of elements if necessary. In the double pivot, a soda is already craving with the continued presence of Fornals and Cardoso, with what Altimira and, above all, William Carvalho They aim to be the alternatives about the grass seeking that the team not lose potential, which is the secret of this story. Antony is fixed on the right, Jesús Rodríguez He will play on the left and how it happened in Poland The Celso Ask to step to be at the tip of the equipment diamond instead of an Isco needed with oxygen.
Play in Cataluña It is always a plus for the Betics. That profession of unwavering faith, that family legacy before fashion drag, that homeland that becomes giant in a stand, that party of reunitting with yours when they live a thousand kilometers … the team knows and notes. Every time he travels he meets Betics anywhere but in the ninth province everything is special. There are many who know first -hand like Aitor, Bellerín, Bartra or Altimira. It is one of those games that always arrive with a sentimental plus.
To achieve the goal of adding a new triumph, Betis has to overcome a rival who comes in good line and with Manolo González It presumes to have clear ideas. This Espanyol is not easy, with a magnificent goalkeeper, aguerrido centrals, a populated midfielder, the versatility of a hip and Roberto’s shot. A team that is uncomfortable for rivals and that was made for permanence with less resources than others and that will sign its continuity in first days in advance. And, in fact, as the thing is if it squeezes can even approach the calculator and raise their options to enter Europe, with the expansion of squares and the ribbon so low that the contestants are putting.
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RCD Espanyol
Joan García; El Hilali, Kumbulla, Cabrera, Romero; Urko González, Edu Expósito, Pol Lozano; Jofre Carreras, Porado and Roberto Fernández. -
Real Betis
Adrian; Sabaly, Bartra, Nathan, Ricardo; Altimira, William Carvalho; Antony, the Celso, Jesus Rodriguez; and Cucho Hernández. -
Arbitrator
Cuadra Fernández (Balearic Committee). -
Estadio
RCDE Stadium (18.30 / Movistar Laliga).
It will be Cuadra Fernándezsomething that causes a crooked gesture in the Betics. It should be remembered that it does not coincide with the Verdiblancos since the victory in Villarreal, but it was not a good memory and the club complained about his performance for the expulsion to Chimy Ávila and for his wink to Vitor Roque. The referee attached to the Balearic committee had his good moment in its beginnings but now it is not precisely among the most reliable in the category.
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