Pizjuán witnesses the most placid derby in recent years

What good times this Sevilla lives, who would have said it just a month and a half ago, when he was trained by Jorge Sampaoli and he persisted in the lower zone of the table and wondered if this year he would have to fight to avoid relegation.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
22 May 2023 Monday 04:34
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Pizjuán witnesses the most placid derby in recent years

What good times this Sevilla lives, who would have said it just a month and a half ago, when he was trained by Jorge Sampaoli and he persisted in the lower zone of the table and wondered if this year he would have to fight to avoid relegation.

He plays much better now that Mendilibar is coaching him – this coach knows how to squeeze the depth of the Seville bench: if Rafa Mir and Papu Gómez leave the pitch, En-Nesyri and Bryan Gil, two other magnificent players, come on – he is more compact and On top of that, he has become strong in the Europa League, his fetish tournament: in ten days he is playing his seventh final, this time against Roma (and along the way he has beaten Manchester United and Juventus, no joke).

Sevilla is so happy that in the run-up they celebrated Rakitic's 291 games – the Croatian adds more games than any other foreigner in the club's history – and hardly thinks of Betis, an ancestral adversary who is also going through another sweet moment and flirting with The possibility of seizing a European square is very close.

And so, without boasting and without vertiginous rises in tension, the derby unfolds – Sevilla was only upset by the muscle injury of Oliver Torres, now doubtful for the imminent European final –: broadly speaking, it was one of the Sevillian duels more placid than can be remembered in recent years.