Sevilla can not get into the cave of the wolf
MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla will be played this Tuesday at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán (9:00 p.m.) a good part of their qualification options for the round of 16 of the Champions League 2021-2022, which mainly go through adding their first victory in the group stage against German Wolfsburg.
Another result is surely not worth the Seville team if they do not want to complicate their future in the highest continental competition in a definitive way. Surprising bottom of a Group G where everything indicated that it was the rival to beat, Julen Lopetegui’s men are with three points, but the great equality means that they continue with the options to continue in the tournament intact.
The Andalusian team is two points behind their next rival and French Lille, against which they fell on the previous day at Sánchez-Pizjuán, while the leader is the Austrian RB Salzburg, who is also not outstanding with only seven. With six left to play and with the last three at stake in Mozart’s city, Sevilla could still be even first.
However, in the Seville ranks there is also latent the risk of being left out even of the Europa League, which could happen if there is defeat and Lille win. Therefore, winning the German ‘wolves’ is mandatory to continue thinking that the European season can be extended to 2022.
And to begin to better cement that goal, the Sevilla team must finally become strong in their stadium where, so far, their two European visitors, Salzburg and Lille, have taken vital points. He did not do it last Saturday in LaLiga Santander, where he had won it until his suffered draw against Deportivo Alavés and which showed that he has not yet reached his best and most regular version, the one necessary to beat a rival who has improved with the change coach.
Lopetegui will face the game with casualties, especially on the offensive right side where he will not be able to count on his two most common components, Suso and Lamela, so Munir or the recovered ‘Papu’ Gómez are emerging as the starters along with an Ocampos at alza and Rafa Mir, with fewer options for an Idrissi who was chosen at the weekend.
In the center of the field, the Basque coach has above all the doubt of Delaney to choose the best configuration in which only Fernando seems immovable, while the Argentine Acuña will return to occupy the left back that was for Augustinsson on Saturday.
WOLFSBURG ARRIVES SOLID
Lopetegui has already warned that a tough game awaits them against Wolfsburg, against which he tied with a lot of work in Germany and before he hopes not to make the mistakes they had against Lille, especially when managing the match when they won by 1 -0.
The German team will face the game with the ‘advantage’ of knowing that a point can be worth to depend on themselves on the last day when they receive the Ligue 1 champion at the Volkswagen Arena. This may leave the initiative to the locals and try to surprise the backlash.
The ‘Lobos’ arrive at Pizjuán at a good moment after the arrival on the bench of Florian Kohfeldt, who replaced the Dutch Mark van Bommel at the end of October and with whom the team has not lost for the moment. In fact, he accumulated three victories in a row until he drew this weekend against Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga where he was sixth.
Like Lopetegui, the German coach is also with quite a few casualties in his team, the last one, that of his starting goalkeeper and captain, the Belgian Koen Casteels, who did not travel due to the coronavirus. Former Atlético de Madrid player Josuha Guilavogui is doubtful, while Bialek, Mehmedi, Paulo Otávio, Schlager, Steffen and William miss it through injury. Nmecha and Wieghorst will be your main dangers upstairs.
DATASHEET.
–POSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS.
SEVILLA: Bono; Montiel, Koundé, Diego Carlos, Acuña; Óliver Torres, Fernando, Jordán; ‘Papu’ Gómez, Mir and Ocampos.
WOLFSBURGO: Pervan; Lacroix, Bornauw, Brooks; Baku, Vranckx, Arnold, Roussillon; Nmecha, Lukebakio; y Weghorst.
–ÁRBITRO: Cuneyt Çakir (TUR).
–STADIUM: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.
– TIME: 21.00 / Movistar Champions League.