They are really done for…
First goal in an SFC kit for Karim Rekik.
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Now we just need more memes of Rekik in a Sevilla kit
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The team walks off to whistles…again.
Lopetegui had a decent match I thought. Pulling Papu for Isco might have been premature. Isco was slow to react and wasn’t ready.
Where do we go from here? Clearly need a change at Striker and some help with LW. Ocampos isn’t good enough IMO,.
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Wasn’t great but good fight to come back and with the drive especially first half we have ourselves to blame to not punish them there. Atleast an entertaining game, with the same result as last year, so to an extend credits to Valladolid.
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In the end the draw was a fair result. At least we off the mark. Fair play to Valladolid though. They played well and caused us problems 2nd half. That is the 4th consecutive 1-1 draw between the sides.
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For me Ocampos is on the same list as Jordan, I do not want to see them again.
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Utterly pathetic. Couldn’t take the lead against a super shitty team like Valladolid who a serious club like Villarreal with a decent coach destroyed 0-3 at home.
Lack of quality, lack of proper tactics and systems (since 2019-20) and lack of winning mentality.
Rakitic’s cross and Rekik’s goal after that defensive blunder saved the day, otherwise it would’ve been another silly loss easily. Their goal was a blitz-krieg kind of action where it caught everyone off guard and luckily got in, but the defense has been solid in general. Jordan the misery of the match…
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Playing on the other side, do you think he could win you back? I always feel like he gets caught wrong footed
They really don’t deserve even a single minute on the pitch with this team. Getting a salary for no contribution at all… that’s shameful. I still have a slight hope for Ocampos, but totally lost it for Jordan - the guy is simply not worthy of playing in that midfield.
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Great point, I felt the same, really really happy with Nianzou, and even his pairing with Rekik could work if Marcão ends up as Guarente junior.
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Did you not watch them play? Villarreal didn’t play as good as us in the first half but they’re clinical and finish their chances. We didn’t.
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Montiel is also very very average at best. A pity that a soon-to-be 37 year old Navas outperforms him.
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You were nearly right. Goal by a keeper. Just that it was Asenjo, not Bono.
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If anyone wants to study the game they’ll see what I said was absolutely true, the crosses were atrocious, Acuña hit 4 straight into the crowd. It wouldn’t be so important if it were not our main route to goal. All our goals come from accidents, last time I saw a pure goal was the Rakitic corner to Papu against Atletico Madrid.
We survive on accidents and corners, it’s an indictment, I can only dream of another system or manager.
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No I didn’t, but did I really have to? 0-3 speaks for itself. As mentioned countless times before and it’s a general consensus here - we’d all be ok with not playing good if that meant getting the 3 points at the end. But those 3 points are not coming easily anymore. Opponents have smarten up and their defense will surely look solid when they have to face the likes of Mir and YEN.
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Sorry but drawing 1-1 at home to a newly promoted side simply isn’t good enough. Obvious that we have problems offensively but I’m not sure even new signings can solve this.
It’s the manager and his tactics. I know it’s only 2 games in but big questions have to be asked of Lopes future or it’s going to be a very long season.
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I’m over this Sevilla squad. I’m ready to blow it up from Manager down. It’s not good enough for 2022 football.
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Also it’s true we played well in the first half… but couldn’t convert any of the chances, we had like 2-3 or so. But the second half was the same ol’ crap, as usual. Plus as Tim mentioned, what’s with the shitty crosses and the shittier tactic that makes crossing a go-to any given time? After like 5 crosses a normal team and coach will know to change the pitiful tactic because it’s not being productive.
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Amen to this.