Sevilla to straighten course against a homegrown Copenhagen

team Julen Lopetegui, Despite finishing fourth, questioned by the poor performance delivered at the start of LaLiga Santander as a result of the decline already seen in the second round of last season, he must now deliver another blow to the table in Europe for the scare. skeptical and confirms their fledgling reaction with their win against Espanyol (2-3) last Saturday.

Sevilla are in 16th place in La Liga with 4 points. far from the high place it should bestarted the local tournament with a defeat against Osasuna and then a draw at home against Valladolid, two painful defeats before combining three losing games, two league games (Almería and Barcelona) and a visit to City to Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán with. azulgranas (0-3) and English (0-4).

Lopetegui, on the rope

This demoralized Sevillismo and pulled Lopetegui into the tightrope. He got an oxygen ball with his last win against Espanyol this gave him life, but now his team must endorse him at an important event in the Danish capital to avoid falling behind in the ‘Champions’ group.

At the RCDE Stadium, where Sevilla was placed with a 0-3 advantage and was later knocked down by the Catalans, two words from the quarry were blasted hard, defenders Kike Salas and, in particular, José Ángel Carmona, author of two of the three goals played, Argentine Erik Lamela He evaluated the 0-1 pass thrown by ‘s as a right-back.

While the Basque coach could spare him Sunday’s vital league game at Villarreal and bet on Jesús Navas’ experience with the possible return of young Frenchman Tanguy Nianzou, it’s plausible that Carmona will repeat his possession in Copenhagen after his brilliant performance. Dutch Karim Rekik is lagging behind and Argentina’s Marcos Acuña has more options, a priori, will continue on the left side more than Brazilian Alex Telles.

In the midfield, there would be Brazilian Fernando, who melted and dizzy against Espanyol, and Denmark’s Thomas Delaney, who visited Copenhagen where he trained and played 8 years before going to Germany.

Isco Alarconwith more and more gallons in this Seville, He will likely continue to control the game along with Argentinian Papu Gómez.High on Saturday after the discomfort that prevented him from playing with Lamela and another Danish national team player Kasper Dolberg, but Rafa Mir may be another option upstairs instead of the Scandinavian.

A ‘touching’ Copenhagen

Sevilla if the ‘Champions’ who started this phase don’t give their best in this second round of Copenhagen Borussia Dortmund fell back 3-0 at home German, neither. Also, in your league lost last day Team under the table against OB.

It was his fifth loss in nine games in his worst start in the league in years: sixth, eight points ahead. And the Danish champion has not started yet and has only given the level it should have in the previous draw and some isolated match against Turkish Trabzonspor.

This placed his coach in a conciliatory position, Jess Thorup, already questioned in several episodes of last season. On Saturday night, after returning from Odense to Copenhagen, the coach called a meeting at the club’s premises and “disturbed” the players, as well as suspending the Sunday rest day, as he himself admitted.

The team was exhibited Defensiveness and mental weaknessAside from the rotations not being good for him and a few signings unresponsive, young Daramy, who was sold to Ajax last year and is now back home on loan, is at the helm, but far from extreme. sign for cheeky figure.

The departure of Spaniard Pep Biel, who was sold to Olympiacos at the last minute, also deprived him of his top scorer and meant a change in style: from playing the wrong nine to playing a classic like the international Cornelius, instead. The third step by the equipment in which it is created.

Although Copenhagen have never beaten a Spanish team in European cups (four draws and eight losses), they have a negligible balance in their favor at home in this tournament: they lost just two of their thirteen group games and Chelsea (2011-12) under Carlo Ancelotti’s coaching. and Real Madrid (2013-14).