Sevilla, forced to take off in Copenhagen

After the resounding defeat suffered last week against the powerful Manchester City in Pizjuán (0-4), Sevilla now needs to maintain the momentum that the league victory gave them at Espanyol’s fiefdom to take off tomorrow also in the maximum continental competition with a success in Copenhagen. The two bottom of group G are measured, dominated after a single day by Pep Guardiola’s team and by Borussia Dortmund, who also beat the Danish champion (3-0).

The long-suffering victory over the Catalans on Saturday, since Diego Martínez’s team was about to equalize at the horn 0-3, put an end to a horrible streak of five games without a win, four of them with defeat. And he gave air, for the moment, to the Sevilla coach who was already highly questioned. «The group deserved it, we took a momentary joy with three points but this continues. We will try to recover for the Champions League and focus on having a good game there and competing, “said coach Julen Lopetegui, relieved, after the Cornellà game.

The visit to the theoretically weakest rival in the group is a pintiparado opportunity for Sevilla to confirm better sensations and a positive dynamic. «We have had bad luck and we have not performed enough either. Now we focus only on the next game to take the decisive step that will turn this situation around, “says Thomas Delaney, a Danish midfielder who returns to the club where he trained and acknowledges that “it is a bit strange to return to Parken with another shirt ».

papu effect

The Gipuzkoan coach recovers the Argentine player Papu Gómez, having recovered from the inconvenience that prevented him from playing against Espanyol. Added to this good news is the improvement experienced in that match by the Moroccan striker En-Nesyri and the meteoric rise of the youth squad Carmona, who at 20 years old has already been highlighted as the best defender in the four major leagues last weekend by Olocip, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence. The winger even scored a goal in Cornellà.

Opposite, Copenhagen also plans to straighten the course at the expense of the Spanish rival. He trusts above all in the support of his enthusiastic public and in closing the spaces well behind to be able to give the surprise. “They are a very high-level rival, so we must play almost perfectly individually and collectively if we want to win,” Danish team coach Jess Thorup told his club media. “It will be difficult, but we firmly believe that we can make it a close match through our organisation, quality and, above all, energy at Parken,” he added.