The fall of Betis against Villarreal exposed some of the team's shortcomings that Manuel Pellegrini had managed to minimize so far. The rear signed a duel to be forgotten that condemned to put the brakes on a great run of results and sensations on the part of the Verdiblancos. Bellerín erred. Also Pezzella. And the defensive doubts multiplied with the passage of the minutes to boost a Villarreal that reigned between the spaces and closed his triumph before the doubtful character of the defenders of Pellegrini. But this multiplied chaos reflects an already existing deficiency: the team left a clean sheet in only one of the ten games this season.
A failure by Bellerín greatly conditioned the clash for Pellegrini's men, who admitted that that moment marked the defeat. Neither Pezzella nor Edgar transmitted tranquility from the center of the rear, although the squad did show outbursts of character that saved the team from a bigger blow. Miranda, meanwhile, did not find any air of reliability in his left-handed lane either. Betis' rear is falling apart and Pellegrini hopes to find solutions for the next bets in order to recover the threat of reliability that was present in several moments of the past year.
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The appointment did not save those in charge of making the game or executing it in attack.. But concern is directed to the search for more consistency in a defensive line that also trembled in other appointments this season. Pezzella still does not reflect a performance that will make him the defensive leader that Pellegrini needs while the absence of Víctor Ruiz and the lack of continuity of Bartra complicate the needs. The stoppage is the best possible incentive for Pellegrini, who hopes to reset his defensive plan with the intention of the European candidacy being sustained with greater arguments.