he Seville Club He arrives, for another year, in the big derby under his eternal rival. After years of Seville’s dominance, in terms of… classification Stability is concerned, it will be The third season in a row There is a box in it … Nervion faces this duel with fewer points than its biggest competitor. however, Matias Almeida He reaches the beginning Seville derby The coach settled with the team in the middle of the table and exempted it from relegation by some points. with Five wins and only one drawAdds the people from Nervion 16 points And be equal Real Sociedad, Elche, Celta Vigo, Rayo Vallecano. In this way, Seville is currently located at the same distance from the relegation zones as those giving access to Europe. There are five points separating him from BetisThere could have been two if the good match played by the white and red team against Espanyol was translated into points. But here we did not come to talk about imaginary football, but rather about concrete data.
The main problem that Sevilla faces in many campaigns is its inability to control areas, which translates into ineffectiveness in front of goal and blunders when intercepting the opponent on its own field. Although during the first month and a half of the competition, Sevilla far exceeded the number of expected goals per match, this number began to decrease to the point that Almeida’s men managed to score only four goals in the last five days of La Liga. Consecutive defeats against Mallorca (1-3), Real Sociedad (2-1), Atletico Madrid (3-0) and Espanyol (2-1). They weren’t too tired in the first third of the competition, with the vast majority of teams still calibrating themselves.
And this is it Sevilla added only three points from the last fifteenagainst Osasuna before the November break. A fact that would be worrying were it not for the fact that throughout the first month in the league, the Sevilla team recorded more wins than usual these years and, therefore, a modest cushion to stand on. It is true that injuries accompanied all this time Matias Almeidawho could not identify a fixed or guaranteed eleven for this long-distance race that is the Spanish League. In front of Betis, the Argentine coach He won’t be able to rely on Ruben Vargas or Suazoa real chaos for the team that will lose the dynamite in the match between Sevilla and Betis on November 30.
The strange fact is that Almeida has drawn just once since coming off the bench at Sevilla Evil tongues insist on the need to reach an intermediate point in the games to add at least one from time to time. After the derby, Sevilla have three league games in front of them Valencia, Oviedo and Real Madrid. Things would have to be very bad for him not to end the last month of the year scoring points and taking firm steps towards continuity as soon as possible.
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