Seven years

had passed

since the last match led by

Manuel Pellegrini

(Santiago, Chile, 1953) in the

First Division

.

That afternoon in

June 2013

, the final day of LaLiga was played.

The Chilean said goodbye to

Malaga

with a defeat against Barcelona of

Tito Vilanova

, who with a 4-1 achieved 100 points and a well-deserved title.

After his Andalusian adventure, where he left magical

Champions

nights

and a handful of unforgettable matches,

Manchester City

awaited him

.

With those in sky blue he won the Premier in the season of his debut.

That was his peak as a coach.

Its golden season.

After the title, the Engineer's star cooled.

He tried his luck in

China

, at Hibei Fortune, and returned to England, where he barely met record with

West Ham United

.

When Betis announced their signing, the usual doubts were mixed in the shaker.

A little spirited man, who had come back from everything, whose best years seemed to be reddening in the twilight, and who had the complex task of bringing the green-and-white group out of its apathy, out of its shadows, after two seasons like two profusely sweaty nightmares in Pillow.

Betis has started the 2020-2021 with victory in

Mendizorroza

.

Pellegrini was determinedly for the game and was not tempted to settle for a therapeutic draw away from home in this strange and deserted opening.

His team played a neat, balanced and brave football.

When Alavés, who also had his technical director debut with Pablo

Machín

, began to resign himself to zero to zero, the Chilean shook the bench looking for a goal that would give all three points.

He broke his double pivot and added footballers up.

In the last minute, with an

electric

Laínez

and a

Borja Iglesias

emptying himself,

Tello

made a hole and beat Pacheco with a left foot.

Pellegrini feels important again.

Serious and reserved in his day to day, he has an idea of ​​what he wants and what he is capable of achieving.

His first booty of the season is a declaration of intent, a message to those who distrusted his seniority, his ups and downs and hunger.

"To play well, you have to win first," he said in his presentation.

He does not want lyrical on the lawn

, but a punishing and indefatigable prose.

"A team with aspirations cannot receive so many goals," he said of his new club's recent past.

Against Alavés,

Claudio Bravo

, a compatriot, and one of those in charge of providing security behind and playing options in front,

officially debuted

.

The goalkeeper was the protagonist after taking out a miraculous hand to respond to

Battaglia's

point-blank header

.

Pellegrini said of Bravo that "he is used to playing in big teams, forced to go out and win."

Without vertigo, without fear of verticality, of the exchange of direct-right shows;

the Chilean coach wants a daring Betis, with height.

Succeed or die, without half measures, without footballers, without quarter.

Valladolid

awaits

on the second day.

There is still a world left, but Pellegrini's Betis, with their own reservations from the beginning, points to a set of clear ideas.

If this is the first stone of a castle or an architecture of smoke, it depends on the perseverance of the coach.

Seven years later, with the same system that he left when he left, a massive 4-2-3-1 that, for the moment, feels Betis like a newcomer from the tailor shop, Don Manuel has returned.

Points, ambition and confidence: there is no greater patrimony for the fans;

for a beticismo, again, excited.

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