The obvious defensive problems of the Betis first team, who have conceded nine goals in three games during the last week, they seem to find no solution in any of the pieces of the Verdiblanco subsidiary, Betis Deportivo, whoeu has won only two matches out of 11 and has received 14 goals in group 2 of the Primera RFEF. But few steps below, in the Junior Honor Division, Yes, a defense appears like there is no other in its category: that Betis, with just two goals received in 12 league games, it is the least thrashed in the seven groups in all of Spain.
A youth Betis first of that group IV, where he has not yet lost a single match (10 wins and two draws) and a few days ago was able to defeat the eternal rival, Sevilla, in their fiefdom despite having played for 70 minutes with one man less. A meeting this derby, by the way, in which The leader of the rear and captain, Ismael Sierra, shone again, that arrived this year from El Calavera.
Sierra, 18, is already 1.90 years old and landed in Seville two seasons ago from Huesca, where he already played in the Division of Honor. A defender who has already played friendlies and he has even been summoned five times that campaign with the first Verdiblanco subsidiary. He has eight games with the youth due to those calls, of which he has played eight complete. One of the pillars to be the least thrashed in the category in all of Spain.
Manuel Pellegrini, who He already pulled Kike Hermoso to be even a starter against Osasuna in Pamplona (and the player even scored), he knows that one step down there are centrals who will soon be targeting the elite. A generation, with values such as Sierra, which aspires to higher categories despite his youth.