Sevilla will face Almería this coming Sunday at the Sánchez Pizjuán in an Andalusian duel and also between two teams that this season are fighting in the low positions to maintain the category. Jorge Sampaoli has appeared at the press conference prior to the match against Almería. The people from Seville lost in their last game in LaLiga against Atlético 6-1, although they have just won 2-0 at Fenerbahce in the first leg of the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League.
Sampaoli and his main concern
The Argentine coach explained that his team’s main concern is not playing: “When you don’t play, you compete. I think we should be in control. In the first half, without positional start control, we generated a late defensive readaptation. The idea is that we defend as a block together. The big conflicts that the team has is in their own field”.
In addition, he added: “We think that the Almería party has a positional reality. The other day we had a defensive shakeup that never happened. Wanting to accompany Fernando with Acuña, in that position profile, he was not enough either because of the non-play, due to our vulnerable defensive relocation.”
Badé is available again and Corona reappears in the call
In addition, the coach of the Nervión team commented on the return of Badé who is available again: “A player who is important to us has returned. He returns with an incontinuity but he has given us every time he has played, it is a contribution to the absences. Each game the group resolves the problems with a lot of effort, always trying to help the team. You have to give value to those players who play in unnatural positions.”
He also spoke of Corona that returns to a call-up seven months later: “Each player who has pain, in the chronicity of these injuries, the behaviors are different, you have to get used to stepping differently and overcome fears. For us it is important to recover that Tecatito who has a level of confidence that makes him an outstanding player in the world. Forcing him into a situation where he is not 100 percent mentally or physiologically recovered would be a mistake. The fact that he is in the next calls is for him to change the chip and think about what he is as a player and not about his injury. Let’s hope he gives us the parameters of his full recovery.”
Assessment of the next meeting
The coach of the Sevilla FC, Sampaoli valued Sevilla’s match against Almería where he pointed out and warned of the following: “Let’s play a match against ourselves. We can’t play with anxiety, disorder and the feeling of the player that everything ends quickly, that’s not going to happen. It will be a hard-fought, expensive and very intense game. We have to define the game from that reality. It is the struggle that a coach currently has with the individualism that is sometimes generated in this profession. When things don’t go well, you have to focus on the belief of an idea. We have the tools to win the game. You have to find those tools that highlight the differences of footballers.”