Every season there is a great team that suffers from relegation. While Everton suffer in the Premier League and Schalke 04 are bottom of the Bundesliga, In the Spanish league there is an old acquaintance who is suffering: Jorge Sampaoli’s Sevilla.
The Andalusian team lost last weekend against Girona 2-1 and were in eighteenth place, in the relegation zone. The Casilda native’s team still has 21 dates to overcome this situation. And to have with what, although the mood should be better.
The tension in Seville continues to grow and on the night of This Sunday, graffiti appeared at the entrance to the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios Sports City, in which the players, the coach and the president José Castro are reprimanded, as well as his board of directors. “If we go down you’ll have nowhere to hide!they wrote, among other allegations.
Sampaoli’s answer
This Monday, Jorge Sampaoli spoke at the press conference before the match against Alavés, his rivals on Tuesday for the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. The Argentine coach assured that it is “an aggressive team that will always exert a lot of pressure” and predicted a “complicated match” if the Sevilla fans were to “suffocate”.
With the team in relegation position, DT specified that when he arrived, in mid-October, “the club was in the same situation as now, compromised, with institutional, sporting and political problems”.therefore his job is “to help with a way of feeling football” to “change the course of the team”.
Sampaoli, despite Saturday’s fatal defeat in Girona, believes that “the ball out is the game model of many teams”, in which the objective is “to give passes into the opponent’s field but when there is no space, the ball He comes back and that restart makes him uncomfortable”, despite this “he will continue to try to convince Sevilla to offer attacking football”.
The Argentine coach also pointed out the ominous graffiti towards the players who appeared today in the sports city of Seville, something that “isn’t normal, but it’s part of all this, it’s global, for the whole world” and he understands it as “manifestations of disapproval for a project that doesn’t work”.
Sampaoli insisted that “before arriving” he had “analyzed what was missing” from the squad and “the deadline for grafts expires on the 31st of this month” but is still “waiting for something qualitative to appear” and if not , it will try to “make the computer work with other tools”. Furthermore, he added: “This is not the time to cry or complain; Whether they lied to me or not is my problem with leaders“.
Source: Clarin
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