As it happened in his stage at Real Madrid, the Basque coach has a hard time finding offensive solutions. Sevilla has finished the first round with only 24 goals in favor
Julen Lopetegui, during a Sevilla training.
No one knows better than a goalkeeper how goals are made. They are responsible for cleaning the confetti after the party, to tear the ball out of the net, to pay for the damage. Privileged viewers of the tragedy. Julen Lopetegui (Asteasu, Guipzcoa, 1966) hung the light suit on a coat rack and exchanged gloves for a notebook. To avoid the goals of the rival to try to build their own. Little has been learned what he learned under sticks. His Sevilla has everything except clarity in the attack. It is a compact block, solidary, delivered, but blunt. Human failure or system error? Lack of the strikers or lack of imagination from the bench? Some of these doubts will dissipate in front of Madrid.
Lopetegui returns to what was his home for a few weeks. In Madrid already suffered offensive droughts and obtuse attacks. I had to weather the march of Cristiano Ronaldo, try to cover your huge seven with patches, and just Benzema He kept the guy. Ten days of LaLiga led the white team. Four wins, four losses and two draws. Fourteen goals, although eight of them in two promising games, against Girona (1-4) and Legans (4-1). Then, the downhill and the goodbye. Already then they questioned the few opportunities given to Mariano, the only nine pure in his squad, and how uncreative his outposts were. That stubbornness and immobility were also glimpsed in the onces, with that philosophy that the problems must be left still so that they can be solved alone.
His Sevilla repeats the same pattern. Lopetegui teams are not great danger generators. Its strategy provides balance without edges, an obsession with not fitting that despises magic, the unexpected, a certain spark. In the Port he was a titanic Jackson Martnez who, with little, aup Julen: 32 goals scored the Colombian at the service of the Basque coach. But when the striker does not reach that punctual brilliance, the entire building falters. The nervous team plays contention, dominance, but in the red zones it moves urgently, impatiently and without light. Babies biting with the encas. Everything that wins back is lost up. A gradient from porter to porter. Your obcecacin with From Jong, a nine that is showing little, has forced to remodel the equipment in the winter market.
The signing of En-Nesyri
Dabbur He has already left, bored and frustrated. Chicharito Be the next one. Neither served to question the ownership of Bigardo Netherlands. The former PSV has two goals in 1,508 minutes. The extreme Ocampos, top scorer of the team in league with five goals, and the midfielder Mute Vzquez, with three, they exceed their record. Munir, important in Europa League, is the only one who, without being a pure center forward, has managed to convince the master, stoning some ownership. Monchi has responded by paying the Legans the 20 million clause of En-Nesyri , which could debut today and be a new competition for the questioned De Jong, who is valued for what he brings to the game, beyond its realization. Like the one who is not handsome but falls sympathetically. As if the striker were wood in an arrow and not sharp steel. Things of modern football. De De Jong tells Lopetegui that he presses, sets centrals, lowers balls and offers himself to his teammates. Sucking on a cactus comforts if wandering through the desert.
With En-Nesyri, Sevilla are looking for a goal to make their neat football and their center-defensive strength profitable. But Lopetegui does not alter his plan. The 4-3-3 is non-negotiable. Quiz Monchi frighten the doubts with the signing of new differential players, be it the Moroccan or someone else to come. Jong's quiz will come out of the chrysalis. The truth is that a good team can wither in the rival area, however robust it has been shown. For very good feelings that drag, if these do not come signed with victories, with the sweet pragmatism of the goal.
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