The beginning of the year, a pending subject for Lopetegui

Sevila will visit Cádiz next Monday, January 3 and his coach, Julen Lopetegui, you will have before you one of those little statistical challenges that arise over the course of a season. And is that The Basque coach does not know what it is to win his first game of the year since he sits on the local bench for Sánchez Pizjuán.

Although the truth is that they have not lost in the two previous seasons either, since Sevilla tied both at the beginning of 2020 and 2021. Almost a year ago Betis was visited at Benito Villamarín and the match ended with a one-goal draw. The previous season, the result was the same in Athletic’s visit to Sánchez Pizjuán.

In the 20/21, Sevilla amended their way by winning the next match against Real Sociedad, but a year earlier they linked the tie for the premiere of the year with the defeat at the Santiago Bernabéu. A defeat, as usually occurs in the Seville visit to Chamartín, with controversy, since it was the duel in which a goal was annulled to De Jong for a block in a corner and in which Monchi He declared at the conclusion of the match that he would have withdrawn the team from the field if they had annulled the other goal that the Dutchman scored and which was validated.

Now, with the uncertainty of the positives for COVID, Lopetegui has the opportunity to break this negative statistic against Cádiz in low hours. The visit to Carranza last year it ended with a comeback and a Sevilla victory in the final minutes.