Sevilla took the first disappointment of the season. It hasn’t taken long. The first day, before his audience, against a rival with many urgencies and full of kids, Mendilibar’s team showed that the preseason serves to recharge the batteries and that it is usually misleading. When the fire really opens is when errors and shortcomings appear. And this Seville is not fully assembled. Missing technical and physical quality in almost all the important areas of the field, beginning with a center of defense that continues to be the great pending issue of the club, no matter how much it continues to send out the message that quantity hides quality. Bad made an error (and it is not the first or the second) for trusting himself as the last man to see the red. The rookie Gattoni loaded his backpack with stones on the first day, giving away the winning goal to Valencia. And the two signings from last year (Marcao and Nianzou) remain the same: whereabouts unknown. Strange scenery.
He Sevilla sports director, Vctor Ortadispatched the last press conference recalling the very high number of centrals of the Andalusian squad, with up to six troops, with Gudelj (central for the coach) and youth squad Kike Salas. The truth is that from the beginning of the past year to the current one, the figure has increased by two. Both, signings. Badalready known from the second section of last year, and gattoni. The two that failed precisely last night, with Gudelj also at a low level, more reminiscent of the first section of last season. Because with the current idea of the game, Sevilla tends to unstitch through the central corridors, where he has plenty of veteran and he lacks legs. The Andalusian team did not defend well forward and as soon as the rival plants themselves with the ball controlled in the Sevilla field, everything is draining water until they reach the area. Plants exposed to open field. And without excessive forcefulness to survive it.
A double question returns to haunt the noble floor of the Snchez-Pizjun: Does Sevilla need a reinforcement in its defense? Would it be advisable to sign Sergio Ramos? The club seems to be clear that it does not want to explore that path, no matter how much the camero is looking forward to receiving a call to sit down, sign a year and show that he can lead the Sevilla defense. Vctor Orta has been asked to rejuvenate the squad and get capital gains. In it is. But they have also asked for results. Play the final of the European Super Cup and the group stage of the Champions League with a similar frame (more bad and sow) than last year. Europe raised an evicted squad to the altars with the seventh. It also shows the shortcomings or the level of a team. Without anesthesia. Sevilla adds two group phases where reality ends up crushing them. The wound has opened the first day. And where the bosses could least expect it: the centrals.
