Papu Gómez makes his first matchday squad, while Diego Carlos makes his return from Covid-19. Despite their respective returns to training, Vaclík & Escudero continue to miss out. Also, Gudelj is serving a suspension, and Óscar is injured (hamstring).
It has been quite the week for Lopetegui’s Sevilla, with two great performances ending by a 3-0 scoreline, highlighting an ever-improving offense. A team that is finally coming together, has now added Serie A’s leader in assists of the past two seasons. It’s curious how the Argentine maestro will integrate in Julen’s system. But taking precedence is a tough away match against Mendilibar’s men. Will Sevilla succeed in reversing the loss suffered in October?
He gave a drop instead. So explain this a bit. If that same play happened to a defender, he got the ball but wiped out the player, it probably still is a penalty. Keepers get away with all kinds of shit.
Gil cause a ton of trouble to Navas, kinda prove himself to Lope and Monchi.
Eibar play high pressing games pretty well but they lack some individual quality in front,
With the quickness of YEN we luckily lead by 1.
Maybe we can see papu in the second half.
First off, Gil is playing incredibly well today and it seems this is his ‘average’ performance with Eibar, which is awesome. We definitely need to keep the guy in the first team next season, at least as a sub. I can’t say the same for Pozo today, as he didn’t have much threat in the right flank because of Acuna’s early injury - but Pozo is a decent prospect as well and as Chris said, he could become our future RB.
It is definitely not good that Rekik hasn’t had the opportunity to prove himself at his natural position (CB), but he is performing terribly as a LB and Vidal should’ve came in instead of Rekik. He gave away 3 silly free kicks and 1 handball not far from the box, fortunately he hasn’t seen yellow yet. One of those chances almost went in from Kike’s header, and a more dangerous team could at least score one of them. So Rekik and LB = do not work! The earlier Lope understands this the better.
It would be a suicide mission if we do not sign or loan in a full back for the remainder of the season. Acuna is amazing, but he has become very prone to injury and we’re not being able to count on him 100%. The same for Navas, they both have some muscular overload issues that are preventing them to perform every 3-4 days and they obviously need to rest, for a while. While Vidal might be the answer for the RB (temporarily), Rekik is not the answer at LB. So if we’ll count for Rekik and Vidal to be our only back-ups for the constant injury issues of Acuna and Navas, we’re totally doomed.
Not sure if we’re allowed to do it, but bringing Pozo back urgently (as a last resort) wouldn’t be a bad idea at this point.
We desperately need a new full back and we have only 3 more days to rectify this issue, so there is not much space for us to be picky, we should go for a quick and proper solution at least until the end of the season (e.g. half a season loan).
Eibar playing a risky game, and we’re getting a lot of counters, but lacking final ball. YEN’s alertness getting us added chances. Jordán moving well in midfield.
And yes, Bryan is out to prove a point. But it seems to be all they’ve got.
