MADRID, 28 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla will try to return to the path of victory in LaLiga Santander to give continuity to their first European win of the year in the visit of an always dangerous Rayo Vallecano, while Almería wants to take advantage of Celta’s weak moment, in games that are played this Saturday and corresponding to the twelfth day of the championship.
At the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán (6:30 p.m.), Sevilla will try to repeat what they did last Tuesday against Copenhagen, with more suffering and work than was reflected on the scoreboard, and finally release their locker of victories at home and start to climb to calmer positions.
The Seville team is not managing to add three by three not even since the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli despite their improvement in the game and is still more concerned about those below than their theoretical direct rivals for playing the Champions League next year that they have already taken a good advantage.
The Argentine coach has still not managed to chain two joys in a row since his return at the beginning of this month and the fans are looking forward to celebrating the first at home so as not to risk ending the day in relegation places. Last week he was within reach of getting something valuable out of the Santiago Bernabéu, but he left empty-handed due to his mistakes.
The safest thing is that Casilda’s will move his eleven again and that this will be more similar to the one he had against Real Madrid. The best news is that he can count on an Isco Alarcón on the rise to command a structure that could be more offensive with the entry of Rafa Mir.
Sevilla will receive a Rayo Vallecano that arrives with less urgency, with 15 points and located in the middle of the table, and with the spirit also reinforced. The franjirrojos signed their best game of the year last Saturday, ending with a 5-1 win, although they know that an easy duel does not await them at the Sánchez-Pizjuán, but rather a very intense one.
Andoni Iraola’s team has accumulated three consecutive games without losing and with only two goals conceded, and although it is showing more weaknesses when it leaves its Vallecas fort, in its service record this season there are already two draws of great value in Spotify Camp Nou and at the Cívitas Metropolitano.
The Usurbil coach has lost important players such as Óscar Trejo and Randy Nteka due to suspension, and Radamel Falcao and José Ángel Pozo due to injury. The entrance of Unai López for the captain should be the only novelty compared to the last game.
For its part, the Power Horse Stadium will be the stage where the Saturday activity opens (2:00 p.m.) with the duel between UD Almería and Celte, two teams separated by one point and who will examine their doubts, perhaps greater in the case of ‘celeste ‘.
And a team from Almería wants to take advantage of that, which has just lost in the last breath in Villarreal, where it was winning 0-1, and which hopes to show its greater solidity again in its fiefdom, where it has added its three victories, among them the last two against two other direct rivals such as Rayo Vallecano (3-1) and Girona (3-2).
The Andalusian team finds the way to the goal better at home and will want to make it count against a Celta that concedes too much again (21 goals) and also does not manage to perform too well when it leaves Balaídos. The Galician team avoided ‘in extremis’ last Monday its fourth consecutive defeat and once again showed a somewhat flat football that seems to depend too much on Iago Aspar.
Joan Francesc Ferrer, ‘Rubi’, coach of Almería, seems to keep Fernando Pacheco in goal and will continue to leave Largie Ramazani on the bench to bet on Leo Baptistao, Adrián Embarba and El Bilal Touré in an attacking eleven with a defense of four.
For his part, the Argentinian Eduardo Coudet, coach of Celta, is out due to injury to captain Hugo Mallo, who will be replaced by Óscar Mingueza and it seems that it will be his only change compared to the eleven that tied on the last day with Getafe. Augusto Solari and Luca de la Torre also miss out due to injury.
UD Almeria – RC Celta. From Cerro Grande (C. Madrid) 14.00.
Cadiz CF – Atletico Madrid. Sánchez Martínez (C.Murciano) 16.15.
Sevilla FC – Rayo Vallecano. Matthew Lahoz (C.Valenciano)
Valencia CF – FC Barcelona. From Burgos Bengoetxea (C.Basque) 21.00.
