Step to Pellegrini – AS.com

“Pellegrini effect”, said a joke some joke at rest, when Betis already won with an almost unknown facility for another year of mediocrity and fatiguitas. And yes: really, the victory against Osasuna mathematically certifies the green and white permanence and opens the door for the Heliópolis team to decide at any time, sooner rather than later, to announce the hiring of the Chilean coach for the next two seasons.

It will not be this, before an Osasuna who arrived at Villamarín with an unknown little competitive tension and full of casualties (Cardona, Rubén García and Enric Gallego, apart from Chimy Ávila) in attack, the best meeting to draw conclusions about the reforms that the Engineer must undertake at Betis. Alexis chose to give the goal to Dani Martín before the evident low form of Joel Robles in the last matches, but the rival barely put the young Asturian goal to the test, perhaps at the end. Dani answered well.

The Canarian coach also decided to reinforce the left with the pair Pedraza-Álex Moreno and it was in that band that both goals came soon. The 1-0 after a corner that Joaquín sent to the area so that the Argentine Guido Rodríguez showed the general misguided rojillo, heading the net only as one (5 '). Only Betis continued to attack and at 25 'Pedraza finished a counterattack that again found little opposition (2-0).

If the first half had little rhythm, even less was seen in the second despite an evident anger of Jagoba Arrasate, who tried to shake the tree with the entrance of Estupiñán and Oier around the dressing room. Osasuna prowled something else (the least was impossible) the betic area but hardly connected any notable auction and Borja Iglesias showed why this season he is fighting with the auction and with the goal. Pellegrini senses that he must recover the Galician striker, who has not scored since matchday 20 and has only added three goals in one season to forget in Heliópolis. Aleñá, who has contributed little since he arrived, made it 3-0 in the last breath and at least everyone knows that they will play next year in the First Division.. Also Osasuna, with much more pride and the right to celebrate it despite this defeat. The time of illusion arrives for Betis, in every sense (also the least good) that word has.

Arrasate: “We had a bad day”

Jagoba Arrasatecoach Osasuna, admitted after losing 3-0 in the Betis field that, “in general”, they have “had a bad day” and that their team “has lacked to enter the game better”, since, “with the 1-0” early, “they have won in confidence and the 2-0 reflects what happened in the first half.”

“In the second half we were better, but overall we had a bad day And this, in the face of these rivals, is paid because Betis has a high-level team, “stressed the Bizkaian coach at a press conference, who acknowledged that the Sevillians” have been better. “

The coach of the Navarrese team pointed out that at the break he told “the players that you had to suffer and score a goal to get into the match”, although he regretted that the latter “has not arrived and in the end they have scored the third”.

He insisted that the key to defeat was in “the first goal, in an action” in which he indicated that his defenses were not “intense”.

The rojillo coach believes that in the comeback attempt “there was no 'punch'” and that, in general terms, they did not make “a good match”, which makes it “impossible” to compete “against teams like Betis” which, he admitted, “has surpassed Osasuna”.

“I don't know if the effort of the last few days has weighed us down. I'm not happy with the start. The 1-0 move has bothered me because we were able to defend betterbut be above the Betis is milk, we must give value to the 45 points we have “he concluded.