Ricardo Rodríguez’s situation at Betis became complicated after the derby and then, with the passing of the games, worsen due to their confirmed lack of prominence. There were no longer any doubts that, after having waited for him to acquire physical tone to seat Perraud and give him the opportunity as a starter against Espanyol and Sevilla, Pellegrini had relegated him to the background, condemned to the ‘B unit’, but now his situation has worsened even more after the Conference League game ante el Mladá Boleslav.
The grotesque defeat against a very modest rival like the Czech has placed the team in general in the eye of the hurricane, but There are footballers who have been especially highlighted and that they can pay dearly for what happened last Thursday in the Conference.
Among them is undoubtedly the Swiss international after a calamitous performance and an attitude that has made him the center of criticism from the fans. So much so that Manuel Pellegrini was forced to remove him from the field in the 72nd minute to introduce Perraud due to his passivity and limited range on the wing.
It didn’t seem to be their war and was demonstrated in Mladá’s equalizing goalwhich has become viral on networks with the Swiss as the protagonist, because at all times he watched the play from a distance even though the action was accelerated by his band. Ricardo Rodriguez he returned at a trot, without straining the machine, and always stayed away from the actioncompletely contemplative despite the fact that he had plenty of time when there were several rejections due to the great previous interventions of Adrián San Miguel. You can see the video of the goal below these lines with Ricardo with the number 12 on his back.
In this sense, The Betis have been outraged by the footballer’s attitude in this specific action. like the last straw of a discreet contribution since he arrived at Benito Villamarín. And it is that Ricardo has four blank LaLiga games after having played a single minute against Osasuna and now he has thrown away the opportunity to vindicate himself.
Pellegrini saw it clearly and took him off the field with 20 minutes left, when under normal circumstances he would have kept him for the entire game, and Everything indicates that he will have taken note of the footballer’s lack of intensity for future commitments.which even complicates his future in Heliopolis. It should be remembered that he arrived with the letter of freedom.