The Real Betis this Thursday he set his new historical record for victories in a calendar year, since the 2-4 in the Copa del Rey achieved in Talavera de la Reina is his 29th victory in an official match so far this year 2021, in which he is still There remains the opportunity to reach thirty if he wins next Sunday against Athletic in the new San Mamés, where to date he has lost all eight times he has played.
Pellegrini’s squad left the November break after conceding three defeats in a row – since September, after the market closed, they had eight victories, two draws and one defeat, in Villarreal – by losing to Atlético, Bayer Leverkusen and Sevilla FC in just one week, but after that last break, he has seven victories (Elche, Ferencvaros, Levante, Alicante, Barcelona, Real Sociedad and Talavera) and a single and inconsequential defeat against Celtic in Glasgow, with everything already decided in his group of the Europa League.
So far in the year 2021, when Betis started drawing against Sevilla FC in a match that they faced with nine casualties -most due to Covid- Real Betis has added 29 victories, distributed as follows: 21 in the League, 5 in the Cup and 3 in the Europa League. The previous record of games won in a calendar year dated from 1997, when he achieved 28. In 1995 he had achieved 27 wins and in 2010 he went up to 26, these last two years, with half of the games in the Second Division.
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