La hangover for the cupbearer title took its toll on the Betis on his visit to Alfonso Perez Coliseum. The team of Pellegriniafter several days of celebrations and official events, he was looking for three points that would place him just one Atletico Madrid in the classification and put him squarely in the fight for a place in the next edition of the Champions. And although the tie allows him to reduce distances in the table, the feeling it leaves in the environment is that of another missed opportunity.
Another, because yesterday’s is the third day of League consecutive in which the verdiblancos not only did not win but they did not even manage to see the door. A successful drought that in front of the team of Quique Sanchez Flores had a lot to do with the lack of freshness and ideas of its most creative players… and with the difficulties that the Betis in recent times to find a way to attack defenses populated with three centre-backs. Three scoring chances, all of them in the first half, are scant baggage for such ambitious goals.
The Heliopolitan team ends this matchday three points behind fourth place, but they have lost their particular goal difference with Atletico Madridteam that precedes him in the classification, so his most feasible options to get into Champions (Sevilla and Barcelona are also mathematically achievable) they inevitably happen by not letting anything escape or practically in the four remaining dates to finish the championship… and because those of Simeone They fail in two games.
A final against Barcelona
The Betis will face next Saturday an authentic final receiving at home the Barcelona. With direct clashes between several of their rivals still ahead, for those of Pellegrini Everything goes through achieving a positive result against the Catalan team and waiting for events. It will be the first home game after winning the Copa del Rey and in full saturday Fair. A now or never if the verdiblancos really want to have something to say in the final stretch of the championship.
