Pellegrini, a 'specialist' in season closures

Manuel Pellegrini has a ten-day challenge to achieve the mission imposed by Betis at the beginning of the season. Europe went from silent goal to real goal. Placed in sixth place after a brilliant start to 2021, there is hope in Heliópolis to return to European competitions with the help of a technician who He proved in the past to be a specialist in the final stages of the League. It happened with Villarreal, with Real Madrid and with Málaga in the Spanish championship.

His first campaign in LaLiga was with Villarreal in 2004-2005. Its premiere was almost unbeatable, achieving five victories in the last ten days and leaving the Castellón team in third place, qualified for the Champions League for the first time in its history. All this reaching the UEFA quarterfinals in parallel. His second season was weaker in the league, ending with three wins in that closing sprint. All this somewhat conditioned by that remarkable performance in the Champions League, remaining at the gates of the final. Especially bright and Meritorious was his League final in 2006-2007, achieving with Villarreal full of victories in the last eight games and going from position 12 to 6. And the following year, he would make even more history with the Castellón team: eight victories in the last ten games to reach the second position in the table. He closed his journey at Villarreal with another good performance in the Champions League and securing fifth place in the League with three consecutive wins as a farewell.

He also left few doubts at the end of the year at Real Madrid in 2009-2010: Eight victories in the last ten appointments despite not winning the title and leaving that same summer.. He continued in Spain to take over Málaga in November 2010. The aim was to save the team from relegation in a critical situation and the Chilean succeeded, leaving the team in eleventh place with six wins in the last ten stakes. In the following season he placed Málaga fourth and in his third year he kept it in the privileged zone before earning a passport to Manchester City. In Heliópolis they trust the hand of Pellegrini to dream of that European banknote.