Seville/Vigo (Spain), Apr 6 (EFE).- Seville and Celta open this Good Friday, one of the great days of Holy Week in Seville, the twenty-eighth day of LaLiga Santander with a direct duel for the permanence in which both teams will look for a victory that will allow them to forget the ordeal of a fateful season and move away, especially the people of Seville, from the relegation zone.
In the debut of José Luis Mendilibar on the Sevilla bench in a Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán who will notice the least influx of public due to the atypical date of the game, a Good Friday and with almost the entire city pending more of his steps and brotherhoods, Sevilla He arrives at this new crucial clash with his spirits restored by the redeeming victory in Cádiz (0-2).
In the Nuevo Mirandilla, in the Mendilibar debut after the dismissal of the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli after the painful defeat in Getafe (2-0), a team was already seen with other ways, with a better attitude and disposition on the field to be able to revive in this final leg of the league and leave behind the penance of a truly disastrous campaign.
The Basque has imposed a more direct and simple football system, without so many touches that didn’t lead anywhere, except for dangerous losses near his area, and with more pressure and presence up top to try not to miss any opportunity to hurt the player. rival, which in this case will be a Celta with very different characteristics to those of Cádiz.
Sevilla has taken oxygen with its victory against the people of Cádiz, rising to thirteenth place and distancing itself by 4 points from relegation, but it will have to be faithful to these new slogans to take an important step towards salvation, an inalienable objective, although minor , for a team that has played the ‘Champions’ this season.
He still has the bullet of the Europa League quarterfinals, of which he is the six-time champion, against Manchester United, with the first leg on the 13th at Old Trafford, but now the urgency is to see the permanence closer. To do this, the Argentine Lucas Ocampos is out due to suspension and another at the last minute, the midfielder Joan Jordán due to injury, apart from the Mexican winger Tecatito Corona, with an overload and who has not reappeared since he was seriously injured in August.
The Frenchman Loïc Badé has recovered from some discomfort, who will repeat as center-back together with the Serbian Gudelj, and the team’s ‘anchor’, the Brazilian Fernando Reges, will return to the eleven after serving a four-game ban (Atlético, Almería, Getafe and Cádiz ), with Bryan Gil, Rakitic, Suso and the Moroccan En-Nesyri in attack. In addition, the Brazilian Marcao, the Dutch Rekik and the Argentine Papu Gómez are summoned after a long time off due to long injuries.
Celta, on the rise, without defeats in the last six league games, examines this Mendilíbar effect in what is a demanding test for Carlos Carvalhal’s block, which will not be able to count on the young midfielder Gabri Veiga due to suspension.
The loss of the youth squad player, the team’s engine in midfield, will pose a problem for Carlos Carvalhal, who is pondering between returning the Peruvian international Renato Tapia to eleven, far from the performance he offered in his first campaign in Vigo, or giving a a new opportunity for Óscar Rodríguez on his return to Sánchez Pizjuán.
That will be, in principle, the only change in the starting team of the Portuguese coach, who maintains his confidence in Luca de la Torre despite the fact that his level has dropped in recent games and the Argentine Cervi continues to claim a position with good performances.
Carvalhal is Celta’s best coach away from home since the last promotion. His team has not lost far from Balaídos since January 20, when they were narrowly defeated by Mallorca.
At Sánchez Pizjuán they will look for their second consecutive victory away from home, and for this they will need to improve their defensive actions from set pieces. That’s the black point of him. More than a third of the goals conceded with the Portuguese coach came in strategic actions.
– Probable lineups:
Seville: Dmitrovic; Jesus Navas, Bade, Gudelj, Coin; Ferdinand, Pope Gueye; Breastfeed or Oliver Torres, Rakitic, Bryan Gil; and En-Nesyri.
Celtic: Ivan Villar; Hugo Mallo, Aidoo, Unai Nunez, Javi Galan; Carles Perez, Tapia, Beltran, Luca de la Torre or Cervi; Aspas and Seferovic.
Referee: Valentín Pizarro Gómez (C. Madrid).
Stadium: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.
Time: 7.00 pm GMT
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Positions: Sevilla (13th, 31 points). Celtic (10th, 35 points).
The key: The efficiency of both in both areas and the marksmanship of two born scorers, Youssef En-Nesyri from Sevilla and the Celtic Iago Aspas, who faces one of his former clubs.
The stat: Celta have lost five of their last seven visits to Sevilla, in which they managed two draws, including last season (2-2).
The phrases:
José Luis Mendilibar: “Celta will be very difficult; he has nothing to do with Cádiz, without better or worse ”.
Carlos Carvalhal: “The game in Seville is a very big challenge.”
The environment: It is expected that the coincidence of the match with Good Friday, a big day in Seville’s Holy Week, will reduce the presence of the public in the stands, a circumstance that caused discomfort in the Nervionense club, although it has tried to mitigate it with promotions of extra tickets for your subscribers.
