Champions League 23/24 - Sevilla FC at Lens

It looks like our season is a relegation battle folks! :frowning:

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Donā€™t wanna waste my midnight sleeping time anymore.
And donā€™t wanna see the face of del nido, Castro, Alonso too.
I guess Iā€™ll chat with you guys next season. (If still in La Liga)

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This was crucial considering the debt we are in. Iā€™m proud of the players though. They left everything tonight.

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Now they can focus fully on rebuilding. Nothing to play for anymore. Now itā€™s mostly on the managerial staff and board to cut the rubbish and find/polish the gems.

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Almeria and Granada are something else.

I really wonā€™t go as dark to see us be next following one and demote. The gap is bigger than you guys are assuming.

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Iā€™ll be here no matter what.
Just not interested in watching Segunda.

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Yeah exactly. Whatever the league, team, manager, board I will always follow this club.

I donā€™t think alonso or his players have anything to be ashamed of tonight. We tried but just not enough on the night and lacked some luck at times.

Credit to lens fc. We can focus on staying in la liga now though.

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So much that led us to this point couldā€™ve been avoided. Thatā€™s what hurts the most

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I think provided we still close to 18th we in a relegation battle.

We need to pull away. We have this worrying habit of being on top but still lose or draw like tonight or at Mallorca. If this continues we will be still fighting down there.

We just donā€™t score enough goals and always liable to mess up in defence. In both boxes we still poor and needs to improve if we to get to mid table at least.

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The most important thing is that even with the rain deluge, even with his attempt at an acrobatic overhead kick.

Rafa Mir left the pitch without a single hair out of place.

All about scraping up enough points to survive now and re build for next season.

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Itā€™s very early but the Copa can lead us into Europe still right? or is it Conference League now. Either way. Season feels over, but lets see how we go into 2024.

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honestly we get to focus on the league now. relegation seems like a far off possibility but we will see

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Only the copa we have a chance. However,it feels unlikely considering we will have to beat a big team to do so.

All I want is us to improve in la liga table and then big changes at club in summer hopefully.

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Iā€™m just focusing on staying up and getting mid table.

Copa is an outside shot but we will see.

Vamos sevilla!

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Nah donā€™t worry. We have enough to scrape by and be save and then play 5 Copa rounds as if they are Uefa finals as our only focus.

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Iā€™m loving your optimism haha. I think sadly though we will likely have to accept no Europe next season.

Itā€™s crazy considering the consecutive years we had of European football. Itā€™s been a great run no doubt.

Letā€™s just try beat Getafe at weekend. If we play like tonight we have a better chance. Fingers crossed.

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Missed Ocampos big time here against this nervous Lens team, esp in the first half.
On top of other important team members like Navas, Lamela, Marcao of course.
YEN was anonymous tonight, combination of being well marked by two defenders and his own lack of better movement.

Alonso seems to have bad luck with him as well as just not bringing enough into the team even in difficult circumstances (partly because of our own flaws and tactical errors). And that lack of luck may be his undoing as much as anything, as Sevilla this season (and largely last season) need all the luck we can get.
So there may have to be a change of manager made, to try changing our luck as much as fortunes on the pitch.

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Ultimately it was 2 giveaways that led to both goals we conceded. The pen called for them was a bigger farce than the supposed ā€œfoulā€ on Salas from the Villarreal game. We are unlucky. We are missing important players. We are not doing well enough in the final third. Like @Packman said, a lot of this couldā€™ve been avoided, but we got a lot of season left to bounce back.

Bring on Getafe!

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I think the biggest worry for me is teams can play so bad against us and still win or draw. Both lens and Mallorca played pretty bad yet still won. It worries me we can control games at times but it matters very little if we not good enough in both boxes. I hope it changes.

It feels like an undeserved loss but it seems to take many chances for us to score. Then it can take just 1 blunder or 2 in defence and we behind. Itā€™s a bad dynamic we in.

That is about as well as we can play right now and it still counted for nothing. Lots of teams just donā€™t fear us anymore.

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I agree. Crazy decision. VAR certainly isnā€™t our friend either. We donā€™t need to deal with that nonsense as well.

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