The Athletic Club coach, Ernesto Valverdehighlighted this Saturday that, with Manuel Pellegrini On the bench, Betis, their rival this Sunday at San Mamés in the twelfth round of the league, “does not speculate and goes out for the game.” «Betis He does not speculate and goes out for the game. It is a team that enters games very well. We have to be attentive,” warned the red and white coach in the run-up to the clash, remembering that in the last two seasons the Heliopolitan team was ahead in Bilbao.
In the previous season, Athletic managed to come back from 0-2 early to 4-2 at the end, but two years ago the only goal of the match scored by Willian José was worth it. “It’s a major rivalwith great players, a great coach and that in the recent years it has European regularity«he warned, and highlighted that «Pellegrini is a high-level coach“, who likes to give his team a quality playing entity and attack.”
Valverde also noted that, although “he has changed many players” in recent years and in this year he has “lost important players,” Betis remains at the top because “the replacements are of a high level”. Looking ahead to Sunday, he warned his team that the green and white team “He is recovering balls under high pressure” with which he feeds the “very fast people in front of him” such as Chimy Ávila, Vitor Roque, Bakambu or Abde.
However, despite all this, Valverde announced that the Athletic’s “intention” is to continue becoming “strong” in ‘La Catedral’where it has won its last games and in the last two seasons it is achieving good records. Although he assumes that setbacks like those suffered in added time against Atlético de Madrid, who won the match, or Sevilla, who tied it, “are things that can happen.”
