The crossed lives of Valencia and Betis

This Wednesday in Benito Villamarín two teams with crossed trajectories will face each other, a Betis that lives its best moment after going from less to more this season and a Valencia in its lowest moments of the campaign after starting very well and getting stuck.

The Manuel Pellegrini’s team did not start the League well. Two points from the first nine that were put into play led to the first doubts, but the goal of Sergio Canales almost on the horn in Los Cármenes, in addition to giving him the victory, it changed his trajectory and made him look up. From the fourteenth position it has gone to the sixth that they currently occupy. Sixteen points of the last twenty-one he aspired to, with five wins, a draw and a single loss. Along the way, in addition, two wins and a draw in the Europa League that have only reinforced those good feelings.

The Valencia thing has been the opposite. Dazzled the team of José Bordalás for his efficiency in the league start and he took a loot of 10 points out of 12 possible thanks to three wins and a draw that allowed him to rub shoulders with Real Madrid in the co-leadership. But, the injuries arrived, the team first stopped evolving and then began to go backwards. Three points from the last eighteen that have been at stake and a slight descent That has left him in tenth position, out of the European positions, five points behind a Betis that looks to the Champions League and closer to relegation than the leader.

Asked this Tuesday about his diagnosis of what has happened, Bordalás was clear and admitted that his team has lost consistency and that he has begun to receive goals that were not “in the script.” Specifically has eleven goals against in the last six games, a figure of almost two against in each clash, which the Alicante coach recalled that it makes it very difficult for them to add three at a time.

The Betis also in that it is almost the opposite. The Andalusian team has scored 11 goals in their last seven league games. There are several direct managers, but there are always Willian José, Juanmi or Borja Iglesias.

So that, Valencia’s first goal to try to stop his fall in Seville It is either to leave a clean sheet or at most receive a gol. It is taken for granted that despite the first doubts, Jasper Cillessen will continue under the sticks despite the change from the Netherlands to Giorgi Mamardashvili coincided with the change in trend of the team without being blamed for any big mistake. Also, it will recover as pareja titular Gabriel Paulista and Omar Alderete. Everything to try to make the crash a turning point, at least for his team.