Although he is not very willing to leave in January and it seems that there will only be, if necessary, a winter incorporation (a pivot), the election of Manuel Pellegrini for the match of the fourth day of the league of the Conference League before him Mladá Boleslav Czech exposes Cedric Bakambuwhich could not start during the second round of the 23/24 due to injuries and who is also having a gray start to the season 24/25with a single goal (to the modest CD Gévora Extremaduran in the King’s Cup) in twelve official matcheswith barely 457 minutes to his credit. The rotation policy of the ‘Engineer‘ allowed us to guess that the Congolese would have his revalidation this Thursday, after remaining on the bench in LaLiga before him Athletic Club and get out of it in the final stretches of the duels against Athletic Club, RC Celta and Valencia CFbut it won’t be like that.
The Chilean coach has decided to keep as an offensive reference Victor Roquewhile not even the presence of two forwards, three counting Assane Diaoallows the ex of Galatasaray and Villarreal CF jump start. A tactical turn of the screw after the fiasco in Mestalla which represents one of the riskiest bets that the veteran coach can remember, which also serves as a new general rehearsal for what awaits since January with the complete reintegration of Isco Alarcon and its coexistence with Giovani Lo Celso. At the moment, with the Costa Sol native out of the list in this phase of the third continental tournament due to his serious fibula injury, Pellegrini He lines up his only defensive midfielder from the first team at the start, Sergi Altimiraalone in the face of danger, delaying the Rosario native to the demarcation of his origins to accompany him or, as the UEFAforming an unprecedented rhombus in the medullary.
As in the second part of San Mames or from the 4-1 draw last Saturday, the Real Betis could also be provided with a kind of 1-4-1-4-1although there is a lack of a playmaker more suited to acting away from the band (as then Pablo Fornals or he is not registered Iker Losada) or with a 1-4-4-2 more symmetrical than the opposites against the Navarrese and in the immediately subsequent events. In the absence of confirmation on the green of the Lokotrans Arenacontinues under sticks in European competition Adrian San Miguelreturning to defense Aitor Ruibal to appear on the right side, with Ricardo Rodriguez on the left and the couple Diego Llorente-Natan de Souza as central. The mentioned Sergi Altimira next to Gio Lo Celso would organize the game, with more freedom for the Argentine, while Assane Diao and Juanmi Jimenez They aim to be the extremes, with Ezekiel ‘Chimy‘ Ávila and Vitor Roque at the forefront.