Manuel Pellegrini He assures that both he and the squad of players face the final stretch of the Championship in good spirits despite the fact that this weekend the options of entering the Champions League have almost vanished. The Chilean coach Real Betis before assessing the great season carried out by the team in all competitions: “The team is in good spirits because it has had a good season both in play and in achievements. It has competed in three competitions and well. Unfortunately we had options to get into Champions but we have moved away after the defeats at home against Elche and Barcelona, that we deserved more”.
Securing fifth place is now Betis’ most real goal: “This year we will try to beat last year, if we finish sixth we will try to be fifth. We have to continue on the line, but correcting things because if we don’t win it’s because we failed at something On the one hand it makes you angry because we have been very high up and fighting, but it is a return to reality, because the teams that overtake us have a larger budget. A logic was imposed after all,” Pellegrini said this Monday .
The economic reality, regardless
The Betis coach is very satisfied with the achievements: “I am proud of what is being done. We returned to the Plaza Nueva, in the Europa League we were eliminated at the end of extra time by one of the competition’s finalists who also eliminated the Barcelona and West Ham… The greatest merit of the squad has been to forget about the economic reality of budgets and compete. Negative points are difficult for me to find, really”.
This Tuesday they will face Valencia again, in a rematch of the Cup final: “We are facing the same teams but it is not the Cup final, it is the League, what is not going to change is the style, because We both have them very defined. There will be no major difference in terms of the game”.
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