Sevilla’s disappointing second round wrote its last chapter on Friday night at the Sánchez Pizjuán. The draw against Cádiz raised the degree of tension to the limit in a stand that, for endogenous and exogenous reasons, was not willing to pass even one to their own. And he did not, to the point that some other player criticized the stands for the whistles received.
The truth is that it is difficult to analyze the fall of a team that, with the point added against Cádiz, is second alone. However, you only have to take a look at the performance of Lopetegui’s men in the first part of the championship and in the second. In the first round, 41 points were achieved that allowed them to fight for the title. In the second, 23 are accumulated that would serve to have the permanence almost tied and to think about next year.
And that is what seems to be happening at Sevilla. Not so much that you want to fast-track this season and think about the next one as needed. With a plague of injuries that no one knows, can or wants to explain, with expectations generated in the winter market that have been rock bottom… Sevilla is having a long season in which they have not yet closed their goal of be in the top four.