Julen Lopetegui prays that no more footballers fall for next Sunday’s derby against Betis after learning that Ocampos and Koundé must serve a sanction for the next day of the League after seeing the fifth the Argentine and a direct red the French. And that Martial, in the absence of evidence, suffers a muscle injury for which he was substituted against Espanyol and that will surely keep him out for some time.
To these three absences against Betis will be added those of Rekik, who lost to Dinamo Zagreb, and Gonzalo Montiel, to which it seems there is still a week more to recover from a muscular problem. Five casualties no less, three of them in defense, which will leave the area behind Sevilla in the picture above all against the eternal rival. Lopetegui will have to improvise especially in the center of the defense and see what he does on the right side, where Navas has played a few minutes only because it does not finish finding good sensations.
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Lopetegui he must recover Marcos Acuña, who returns from suspension. The Argentine left-back could no longer be in the game against Betis in the first part of the cup derby a few weeks ago, although he was able to form (as happened by the way with Koundé) when it resumed the next day. So, the Nervión team could not count on their first two goalkeepers, Bono and Dmitrovic, with the Moroccans En-Nesyri and Munir nor with Fernando Reges, as well as the already mentioned Acuña and Koundé until the postponement occurred.