2023-10-23 17:00:23
Without much margin for error in the Champions League after the draws against Lens and PSV Eindhoven but reinforced by the good game against Real Madrid in the League. This is how Diego Alonso’s new Sevilla arrives at the duel at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán against the most powerful rival in group B, Mikel Arteta’s reborn Arsenal.
With two points under their belt, the Seville team needs to get something positive from the visit to Nervión of the ‘Gunner’ team, which last season kept up with Manchester City in the Premier League until the end and this campaign has reunited with the maximum continental competition six long years later.
Sevilla has the positive inertia of the good debut of the Uruguayan coach on the Seville bench against Madrid, in a rough, high-intensity match, in which led by Sergio Ramos, who was reminiscent of his best times, competed from you to you with one of the giants of the League based on physical waste.
His rival in another of those magical nights in Nervión is experiencing a kind of new golden stage. After a gray five years condemned to the Europa League, the north London team has returned to the privileged place it occupied during Arsène Wenger’s successful time as Gunner coach.
Arsenal arrives in the Andalusian capital warned by the defeat in France against the surprising Lens, a setback that prevents them from any unnecessary relaxation on the way to the knockout phase of the Champions League, the logical objective for a squad that still has not known defeat in the Premier after six wins and three draws in nine games.
To face the challenge under the protection of the drive of his passionate fans, who have called to fill the Pizjuán stands with color, Diego Alonso has his entire squad at his disposal, just as in the league duel against Madrid. Few changes are expected with respect to Saturday’s eleven, with the threat facing an opponent of many talents and resources like Odegaard, Bukayo Saka, who returned at the weekend against Chelsea after his muscle injury, or Gabriel Jesus.
-Probable alignments:
Sevilla: Nyland, Navas, Bade, Ramos, Acuña, Fernando, Rakitic, Sow, Lukebakio, En-Nesyri and Ocampos.
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Thomas, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Martinelli.
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden).
Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.
Time and TV: 9:00 p.m. Movistar Champions League 2.
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