Manuel Pellegrini expect your players to change the chip after achieving the pass to the final of the Conference Leaguewhich has unleashed a great euphoria among fans of the Real Betis, And the batteries are put to receive this Sunday Healthin a key appointment to stay alive in the fight for the Champions League with Athletic y Villarreal.
“The team arrives well, with the very high moral for having achieved that achievement as important as qualifying for the final of the Conference, that has given people very important to people, as it transmitted to us when they arrived. And also with a lot of responsibility and the desire to continue what I have always said and that it is the great merit of this squad, the fact of being able to be in both competitions, so that if for anything we would not have reached this final, then we would not look here in the league and we saw the twelfth or the fourteenth, without fighting for anything, ”he said this Saturday Pellegrini At a press conference.
“Now we have already achieved the Europa Leaguewhich is a very important achievement, and with four dates in advance, which we had never achieved ever. But I do not see the group convinced that we have finished and now we have to quickly pass from the euphoria mode in the competitive way and tomorrow we have to go looking for those three points against Osasuna to fight for that classification for the Champions League until the end. We are there three teams for two places. He Villarreal It takes us a small advantage and Athletic takes it to Villarrealtwelve points remain and whoever does it better in these four games will get it. I hope that the fact of getting into the final does not distract us, ”says the Betic coach
Pellegrini has also reported that Héctor Bellerín Surely the rest of the season is lost due to the injury suffered in Florence in the hamstrings: “The evolution of his injury will have to be seen, but I see difficult for this season to play, that is never known and depends on his recovery, although in principle I believe that the season is over for him.”
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The Celso y Doorstake They have worked today in the gym, while players like Bartra, Nathan, Antony o Isco They are playing everything in this final stretch, so someone can have rest: “Everyone is summoned for tomorrow, we will see at what level of recovery each of them are to try to start the game with the best possible eleven, taking into account that there are also five important changes. There are more than twenty -four hours for the game and we still have to see what players we choose to play at home,” said the Chilean.
About Sunday's rival, Pellegrini He says that “Osasuna is a rival who made a great first round and then has stayed a little, but is also fighting for the European positions. He came from a good run of results until the latter with Villarreal, and it will be as always in the league a very difficult rival.”
