Quite inconsequential and with many casualties on both sides

Valladolid and Betis are measured this Sunday in an inconsequential duel, with nothing at stake and with many casualties on both sides, seven in the premises and nine in the visitors, to bid farewell to a good campaign for the pucelanos and a disastrous year for the Sevillians for the different aspirations of both.

With only two points of difference, the reading is so unequal between one and the other due to the opposing challenges they faced, since Real Betis, fourteenth with 41 points and with a much larger budget than its rival, has failed in the challenge to return to Europe and Real Valladolid, sixteenth with 39 and that with a victory can overcome the Betis, has been saved without difficulties.

Sergio González’s team faces this clash from the tranquility and with seven forced absences due to injury, since, although he recovers Míchel and Alcaraz, he will not be able to count on Pedro Porro, Salisu, Ber Arfa, Kike Pérez, Joaquín, Raúl Carnero and Kiko Olives

Therefore, he will have to face Betis with only sixteen summoned, since the subsidiary’s players will play the playoff promotion to Second with his team, sources from the club reported this Saturday.

The cited list is made up of Masip, Caro, Antoñito, Javi Sánchez, Moyano, Nacho, Fede San Emeterio, Hervías, Matheus, Míchel, Óscar Plano, Alcaraz, Waldo, Sandro, Enes Ünal and Sergi Guardiola.

Almost four hundred days after the start of training and with the satisfaction of the duty fulfilled, Real Valladolid dismisses the atypical 2019-20 season with the intention of achieving a victory that will leave a good taste in your mouth and, incidentally, that will allow you put Betis ahead in the table.

The verdiblancos, like the blanquivioletas, arrive in Zorrilla with many casualties since, as Sergio González has pointed out, these eleven games after the resumption of the league “have done a lot of damage to football, because the demand has been maximum, stress and the little recovery time between one game and the other ».

Eleven months have passed since the Pucelano team added the first victory in LaLiga, precisely against Betis, in a match in which the goals of Sergi Guardiola and Óscar Plano allowed the longest season in history to start off on the right foot.

And the objective is to finish it as it started, with a victory that allows “to ratify the great work done by the players”, to whom Sergio González has valued their “dedication, sacrifice and ability to adapt to everything that has been asked of them” and for those who want that triumph that allows them to say goodbye sweetly.

In front, the Betis of Alexis Trujillo, who replaced as interim coach the dismissed Joan Francesc Ferrer ‘Rubi’, a team that reaches this final without illusion for not playing anything, just the honor and that their coach for the next campaign, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, can see which players he wants to keep in the new verdiblanco project.

The last defeat against Alavés (1-2) confirmed the sad and disappointing season of a Betis that has proven to be incapable of competing and has been chased by errors such as its defensive weakness, with clear failures that have cost him many points and that They have been a dissonant point for the quality that was supposed to his staff.

For this last clash of a dark and disastrous campaign, Alexis also has numerous problems to make an eleven and even the call, for which he has had to call four youth squads with whom the subsidiary has not had for his play-off promotion to Second B.

The defeat against Alavés has left as a sequel five losses by sanction – the lateral Álex Moreno, two centrals: the Algerian Aïssa Mandi and the Moroccan Zou Feddal, the Argentine midfielder Guido Rodríguez and the forward Juanmi Jímez-, who join three injured : the lateral Alfonso Pedraza and two midfielders: the Portuguese William Carvalho and the Mexican Andrés Guardado.

In addition, youth midfielder Édgar González, a regular in the first team for almost the entire season, has been exempted so that he can play the promotion phase to Second B with the subsidiary.

Against this background, Alexis will have to keep some players physically punished at eleven and will have to improvise on the left-back with Barragán on a changed leg or Cristian Tello, with Carles Aleñá, Sergio Canales and Javi García, who has barely played this course, in the middle and Joaquín, the French Fekir and Loren Morón as a possible offensive trident.