Dwithin a week the Betis a third phase of his calendar will begin in which the demand is multiplied. After the three days of League initials, before the first date FIFA of the season, and of the seven games that the Verdiblancos had to play in three weeks, before the second, comes a real ‘Tourmalet’ in which the team from Pellegrini he will combine travel and little rest with high-level rivals.
The coaching staff will still have six or seven training sessions to prepare for the first of their next seven games, which again are compressed into just 21 days, but from there, and without a continuity solution, the agenda will be divided between days 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of The league and the double duel of the UEFA Europa League before him Bayer Leverkusen in which the leadership of the group and, possibly, a place in the round of 16 will be at stake.
Pellegrini will be recovering players throughout the week, both the injured, with Channels as a candidate to rejoin the group soon, as well as the internationals, who will gradually join the daily work dynamics as they complete their respective international national team matches. With a first but: the date chosen by The league for the match of matchday 9.
Again a game on Monday in European week
The Chilean coach, reluctant to start in his eleven with the players recently arrived from transoceanic trips, as will be the case of Claudio Bravo, Guardado, Pezzela and Guido Rodríguez, already complained a month ago about having to play on a Monday, having a game of Europa League on Thursday, when the very organization of the competition postponed other meetings of teams that had mainly South American internationals.
His regrets, apparently, have not received the slightest ‘feedback’ from The league, who has once again scheduled the match that he will play against the Deportivo Alavés on Mendizorroza Monday 18, from 7:00 p.m. Less than 72 hours later, on Thursday 21 from 18.45, the Verdiblancos will receive the Bayer Leverkusen at Benito Villamarin, on day 3 of the continental competition in which they participate.
With the Sevillian derby on the horizon
The Vallecano Ray and the Valencia, on Sunday 24 and in the week-long day that follows, both games in the Heliopolitan Coliseum, will be the next rivals of the Betis before I have to travel to Wanda to be measured at Atletico Madrid, to Germany to face the Leverkusen and receive the Seville in the first derby of the season before the next date FIFA of the calendar.
A total of 15 points at stake in The league and six in the Europa League that, in the domestic competition, they must serve to try to attack the objective of the first six places and, in the case of the continental tournament, they seem decisive to ensure access to the next round. And if possible, the leadership of the group that would allow avoiding an extra tie against any of the teams that fall from the groups of the Champions in February.
