As expected, Real Betis nor has recovered any of his injured players for this Thursday’s momentous match against Mlada Boleslav on the fourth day of the League Phase of the Conference League, where the Green and Whites are obliged to win to keep alive their aspirations of finishing among the top eight and directly accessing the round of 16. After losing in the opening match against Legia de Warsaw (1-0) and then drawing against Copenhagen (1-1), the hard-fought victory against Celje allowed Pellegrini’s team to enter the positions that give them the right to play in a preliminary round. to the aforementioned round, but The objective in these last three clashes must be to assault that privileged area that is two points away away.
For this, the heliopolitan table He will appear tomorrow at the Mestsky Stadium, starting at 9:00 p.m., with a long report of casualties. Thus, the ‘Engineer’ will continue without being able to count on the seven injured members of the first team, who were added at the last minute. Ez Abde, who was not present in the last training session as he presented with a fever, the product of a viral processand has been ruled out by the Chilean coach himself.
Héctor Bellerín remains in the infirmarywho has suffered a bruise on his foot since the match against Athletic; Pablo Fornalslast minute absence for Mestalla due to muscle discomfort; Johnny Cardosowho was injured in training with the United States team during the last break; Marc Rocawho follows conservative treatment with stem cells to try to recover his battered ankle; Nobel Mendywho suffered a sprained knee in the reserve team’s penultimate game; and William Carvalhoout indefinitely after rupturing his Achilles tendon.
Without Fran Vietes, Iker Losada or Guirao
They are joined by Isco Alarcón, who is already training with the group after six months out due to a fibula fracture from which he hopes to be recovered before the end of the year. In any case, the man from Malaga was not entered in the third continental competition, just like goalkeeper Fran Vietes and Iker Losada, who due to the restrictions that UEFA imposes on the official lists of the participating teams become two more casualties for this important commitment in the Czech Republic.
But the thing does not stop there, since Carlos Guirao, starter on the last day of LaLiga against Valencia, cannot be part of the game either.. After landing last summer on loan from Leganés for Betis Deportivo, the midfielder He does not meet the conditions to be registered on the ‘list B’ of homegrown players, in which the central defender Sergio Arribas does not appear either.who trained last Tuesday with the first team. In this way, the youth squad presence will come from the hand of Mateo Flores, who aims to start, and Jesús Rodríguez.