Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad and Sevilla is now eight points behind the whites, a distance that with 11 days to go seems chimerical to come back, no matter how much the Nervionenses have to receive the leader still at the Sánchez Pizjuán, surely for Easter Sunday. Lopetegui’s team could not follow the passage of Ancelotti and it has been, above all, due to the constant punctures away from home.
Because it is true that Sevilla has not lost in the league for a long time, specifically since he succumbed at the end of November precisely at the Santiago Bernabéu (2-1). It was one of his two defeats (at home he has not lost yet) of the championship. The other occurred in Granada (1-0) at the beginning of October. Lopetegui’s men won in Cádiz (0-1) on January 3 and since then they have not won an away victory. All draws: in Mestalla, Pamplona, Cornellá-El Prat and Vitoria. Two goals in those four games and 8 points in limbo along the way.
La Liga Santander
*Data updated as of March 5, 2022
Curiously, In Europe, Sevilla have not won any of the four games they have played this season either. He fell defeated in Salzburg on the last group day, when the victory would have given him the pass to the second round of the Champions League, and weighed down his classification with two draws in Wolfsburg (2-2) and Lille (0-0). In Zagreb, in the round of 32 of the Europa League, they also lost (1-0) but made use of the 3-1 first leg to advance to the round.
Except for a Madridista collapse or unforeseen arreón, Sevilla will leave the dream in what almost always seemed like the dream. And he will have to press (also away from home) so that the many teams behind him, all of them still several victories away, do not give him the scope in that primary objective that is to grab a Champions position. The second position, which would grant him the right to play in the Spanish Super Cup, is also a challenge for which he has to win quite a few games between now and the end of LaLiga.