The Malaga striker Juanmi, due to suspension, will not be able to play with Real Betis in the first league match of the 2020/21 season, next Monday, September 14 in Mendizorroza against Alavés, so his withdrawal joins those already confirmed Camarasa and Dani Martín, as well as Loren, who has not trained throughout the preseason with his teammates because of the coronavirus.
Juanmi was sent off in the penultimate league match played by Real Betis against Alavés (1-2 at Villamarín) for “disparaging” the referee and was sanctioned with two games. He already completed the first in the last game of last season, in the Nuevo Zorrilla against Valladolid, a rival against whom he could reappear on the second day.
Aitor Ruibal, for his part, who has many options to keep one of the chips from the Verdiblanco first squad – at the moment he plays with number 34 – saw the fifth yellow in the last league game with Leganés against Real Madrid, but he will be able to play since a year ago the Delegate Commission of the RFEF approved various modifications in the Regulations that had been applied in the soccer championships in Spain, among them, the suspension match due to the accumulation of five yellow cards that will have no effect next season
Apart from the safe casualties of Juanmi, Camarasa, Dani Martín and surely Loren, Manuel Pellegrini has the doubts of Joaquín, Sanabria and Sidnei, who did not play the last friendly of the preseason due to overloads, and is pending the return of Fekir, concentrated with the French team and that he has not participated in any of the three friendlies played by Betis in the summer.