Betis, to achieve permanence in the ‘noSanfermines’ of Osasuna

Osasuna, with the aim of winning again and thus giving joy to the Foral Community on dates when the Sanfermines 2020 should have been celebrated, will face this Wednesday Betis, who will seek to certify the permanence in the middle of a suffocating heat.

The rojillos will try to honor San Fermín hours after the big day of the Pamplona festivities, just three dates after drawing against Getafe in El Sadar.

Jagoba Arrasate warned at a press conference that Betis has “great footballers”, that despite “not achieving the goals for one thing or another”, they can do “a lot of damage if you let them play”.

The Berriatua coach fears that his opponent may connect with Fekir on the inside, but he also assured that the competitive tension that Osasuna has shown in each match “still stands.”

Osasuna scratched a point against Madrid in a game in which they could deserve more, but that neither team wanted to get away from the tactical mastery with which they took the 90 minutes.

Arrasate has praised his rival as a team that has “offensive people and men who play fast on the outside and well on the inside.”

After defeating Alavés and Eibar, Osasuna will look for the third consecutive victory at home to place themselves with 48 points in the standings that further support their exceptional season. “We are on a streak and we want to extend this to the end,” said Arrasate, in addition to noting that until the last hour he will not know who can play.

The Osasuna coach lost Marc Cardona in the match against the Azulones due to an injury to the femoral biceps of his left leg and another of the attackers, Enric Gallego, continues with his recovery from his injury to the left adductor. Rubén García left the recovery session on Monday with discomfort and will not be available for Seville either, so Arrasate will have to manage in attack.

In this way, Osasuna will start the first of the last two weeks of competition with a balance since the return to the League of three wins, two losses and two draws. With 34 days played, the Navarre team accumulates 45 points after reaping eleven wins, twelve draws and eleven defeats, showing a solid team image, clear ideas and a goal set in the minds of the team since the competition began.

Arrasate has called up 22 players for the match: Sergio Herrera, Rubén Martínez, Juan Pérez, Nacho Vidal, Raúl Navas, David García, Roncaglia, Lato, Aridane, Estupiñán, Oier, Fran Mérida, Torres, Kike Barja, Darko, Íñigo Pérez , Moncayola, Javi Martínez, Aimar, Hualde, José Arnaiz and Adrián.

Sauna

For its part, Betis will play at Benito Villamarín three points with which to suture, certify, their mathematical permanence against an Osasuna with the duties done without more in dispute than pride and in a scenario that, more than a boiler, will be a sauna due to the high temperatures of the Seville capital.

The men of Alexis Trujillo, after the draw of the last day against Celta in Vigo, are virtually saved, although they will want to do it mathematically so that, among others and not insignificant matters, they can start planning and next season with the help of who It will be his coach, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, whose hiring for two years is about to become official.

Beticos and Osasunistas will jump to a Villamarín that will be a furnace despite the fact that the League has delayed the start of the match by one hour, which will be at 20:30 and in which, in the absence of greater incentives, the Canarian coach could give minutes, or ownership, to his substitute goalkeeper, Dani Martín, as he himself has pointed out.

It will be low by sanction one of the fixed in the Betica lineups in this disappointing season, the Cantabrian midfielder Sergio Canales, although in return, Betis will be able to count on another of its franchise players, the Frenchman Nabil Fekir once he has played a game by accumulation of reprimands.

With his defensive scheme of five defenses with two long-distance sides and a means of containment ahead, Alexis Trujillo will try to harmonize the requirement of points with managing his men without the team being impaired in their benefits, especially the defensive and concentration that have so burdened the Betis.

The verdiblancos took oxygen in Vigo and now they will want to seal the permanence as soon as possible and offer a good image to their television followers to make up, if possible, a season more than mediocre in which none of the objectives set have been met.

Another of the highlights of this match will be the performance of the referee Alejandro Hernández Hernández in a week in which, from Betis and after the match against Celta, the mistreatment suffered by the entity in this year has been stressed from the field and the VAR.