Betis were never better classified playing in Europe

The Real Betis He has gone to the November break with the bad taste in his mouth that the last three consecutive defeats leave him – especially the derby against him. Sevilla FC-, although this does not mean that in LaLiga occupy a creditable fifth place, which is the best classification of the Verdiblanco team after matchday 13 of all the previous seasons in which it was competing in Europe throughout its history.

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The Real Betis It was never better classified than in the current 5th place after 13 league games competing in Europe and only once did it equal that classification. It was in the 2002/03 season, in the first campaign of Victor Fernandez as Betic coach, after leaving it Juande Ramos at UEFA last season. That year the Betis had a brilliant start (2-4 at Riazor with an exhibition of Assunçao), then drew 3-3 at Anoeta and thrashed 3-0 at Barcelona in exile of the Nuevo Colombino, also winning two matches at Zimbru in UEFA and another to Jerez in the Copa del Rey.

That Betis he added 23 points on matchday 13 -two more than now- and was 5th, six points behind the leader, the Real society, and had already won 1-0 at Auxerre in the first leg of the 1/16 final of UEFA. In the second leg, on a frigid night (12 December 2002) at the Stade Abbé-Deschamps, the Betis lost 2-0 to the Auxerre from Djibril Cisse And that’s when his downhill began, which led him to finish 8th that season, apart from repeating the European places, which he only achieved once two years in a row, in 1997 and 1998.

In 2014 he ended up going down to Second

On the previous occasion to the current one that competed in Europe, season 2018/19, the Betis from Quique Setien he was 14th with 16 points on Matchday 13 – although he ended the year later adding five wins and two draws – and in 2013/14 with Pepper Mel he was bottom with 9 points and then he would end up going down to Second. In 2005/06 -after proclaiming himself Cup champion and playing the Champions League- he was 19th with Lorenzo Serra and 11 points in 13 days. In 2002/03 he was 5th with Victor Fernandez, with the aforementioned 23 points. In 1998/99 he was 12th, first with Cantatore and then with Clemente (17 points) and a year before he was 11th with Luis Aragones and the same 17 points.

In the 1995/96 campaign the Betis from Serra he was 6th with 21 points, the same as now; in 1984/85 with Get up he was 8th with what today would be 18 points (4G 6E 3P), after losing in the first round of the UEFA (1/32) against University of Craiova. In 1982/83 he was 13th with Antal Diunai and 13 points today (the Benfica eliminated him the first time in UEFA). In 1977/78, the then current champion of the I Copa del Rey with Rafa iriondo he was 12th with 14 points today (3G 5E 5P). I had already eliminated the Milan and to Leipzig, but it would end up going down -as it happened in 2014-, being the last in a triple draw with Spanish and Hercules and finish 16th. The first participation of the Betis in European competition it was in the 1964/65 campaign, when they fell first to the Stade Français. On matchday 13 he was 9th with what today would be 17 points. That campaign on Betis he was saved from playing the permanence promotion thanks to the goal average, since he added the same points as the Murcia, who did play it and ended up descending before him Sabadell, who achieved promotion ..