An expulsion, the last scene on a playing field in 2025. A harsh criticism of the refereeing, the press conference with which the year closed. Matias Almeyda came to Sevilla to correct a course, with a three-year contract, and although the Andalusians are developing an irregular campaign and the public approves the coach’s work, The Argentine’s continuity could depend on the results recorded after the break.. From the resounding victory over Barcelona, last October, to the loss with Real Madrid, a match with which the current calendar ended, through the possibility of a sale of the club that could be sealed between March and April 2026the scenario shows an instability on and off the field that surrounds the Nervionenses.
“We will have to rest and recover energy“, he noted in the talk with the media, at the Santiago Bernabéu, after losing 2-0 with Real Madrid and starring in a tense exchange with the assistant judge Guadalupe Porras and the main referee Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz. The setback was the ninth in 17 League games, where Seville occupies tenth placeeight units away from the last place that grants places for international competitions. He Naked arrived with the urgency of repairing the campaigns of Xavier García Pimienta –dismissed last April, after four consecutive defeats; nine victories, nine draws and 13 falls – and the interim of Joaquín Caparroswho completed his fourth cycle at the club.
Three days before the visit to Real Madrid, The elimination of the Copa del Rey, in the round of 16, against Alavés, was a shock. And the blows are happening in Seville: on the field, where the calendars follow one another and the teams do not excite, and in the treasury, where cleaning up the accounts is a duty to not be suffocated by the bad economic moment. The triple date that the Andalusians will have when the League restarts at the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium, a thermometer for the group that will be evaluated by the fans.
The summary of the rout against Barcelona
Will lead the way with Levantelast in the standings; Celta y Athletic de Bilbaoseventh and eighth in the qualifier, the remaining two visitors. Among them, he will travel to measure himself against Elchewhich surpasses it by two units. A poker of matches that will encourage Almeyda or drain him of strength, those that the team was losing since the historic victory over Barcelona – they had not won for ten years – to the slip at the Bernabéu. Six of the nine losses in the League occurred between those two matches.
A coach of character, with defined goals and who, due to his personality, avoids getting involved in controversies, Almeyda, who was a Sevillian player – along with Maradona and with Carlos Bilardo as technical director – knows the passion of the Andalusians and that times are shortened with the absence of results. The greatest wear and tear Naked It is caused by injustices, and the situation he experienced with the referees exposed his anger. “I’m not a circus clownI have my history in football. Today is ridiculous [partido con Real Madrid, del 20 de diciembre]I’m even ashamed to have to say it. Nothing is going to change, because I am the coach of Seville: we are the team that has the most yellow cards. He who remains silent is a traitor and I am not a traitor. (…) At some point they are going to have to suspend a referee. I have never seen two penalties called in two minutes.“It was refereed very badly,” Almeyda attacked.
The Sevillian press was the one that raised the alarm. “Matías Almeyda thinks about it, Matías Almeyda gets tired or, simply, Matías Almeyda considers leaving the Seville bench”, the beginning of an article by Sports Stadiumwhich analyzes “the reality that the coach of Sevilla Fútbol Club is still going through at this time, so conducive to surrounding himself with his loved ones, talking and regaining strength when they begin to falter.”
From the coach’s environment, they focus with the director of professional football, Antonio Cordón, to cement the project by juggling the transfer market. The priority objective is a striker; The Argentine will return from the loan Federico Gattoni and it is speculated that at the request of the treasury, some sale must be made to maintain the room for maneuver, despite the fact that in the last transfer market Sevilla signed seven players without paying more than the agreed amount of the player’s contract.
A limited squad with multiple physical problems, Almeyda’s resources are austere. The club conveys confidence in the coach, because they do not want to repeat the mistakes of the recent past, with seven management changes in the last three years. Everyone trusts in the resilience of the Nakedthe one that needs to be energized to face the second stage of the season, the one that marks the destiny of the clubs and the men.
