Seville is Real Madrid's gateway to the Spanish League title.. and this is its timing

The expected confrontation between the third Seville and the leaders Real Madrid will be a gateway for the latter towards the Spanish Football League title, when the Madrid club, on Sunday (23:00 UAE time), will be a guest in Andalusia at the top of the 32nd stage matches.

Real's victory at the "Ramon Sanchez Petjuan" stadium will leave it 15 points behind Sevilla, who were only 5 points behind the leaders at the end of January, and with a game less than they had at the time.

However, the poor results of coach Julen Lopetegui's men, with only 3 victories in 11 matches in "La Liga", led to their failure in the title race and their relegation to third place with the same number of points with Barcelona (60 each), which has a game in hand against Rayo Vallecano.

More than that, Seville is living in fear of the guillotine of exiting the first four places qualifying for the Champions League next season, as it is under the threat of the fire of the defending champions Atletico Madrid fourth (57), Real Betis fifth (56) and Real Sociedad sixth (54) before Seven stages from the end.

Seville badly needed to beat Granada 4-2, which was threatened with relegation in the last stage, but it narrowly won the three points after scoring two goals in stoppage time for the second half from substitutes Rafa Mir (90 +3) and Argentine Alejandro "Papu" Gomez (90 + 9). ) to untie the tie knot.

The Andalusian club hopes to build on this victory before decisive matches for its European future, as difficult confrontations await outside its stronghold, after Real's match against Villarreal, who reached the semi-finals of the Champions League (stage 35) and Atletico (37) before hosting Athletic Bilbao in the stage. Thirty-eight and the last.

On the other hand, Real is living on the impact of its victories in the main continental competition, as it booked its place in the semi-finals, after successively eliminating Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, the defending champion, thanks to 7 goals for its brilliant French striker Karim Benzema.

The Champions League evening on Tuesday weighed heavily on the "Mirangi" players, who had to play two extra games at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium to qualify and strip the Blues of the title despite losing 2-3 (Real won 3-1 in the first leg).

French Ferland Mendy and Brazilian Marcelo are struggling to recover from injury, while Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti is likely to rest Croatian Luka Modric, who has a charming pass against Chelsea and Benzema, after they fought the full 120 minutes.

Real's reaching the semi-finals of the parent competition for the 31st time in its history coincides with its brilliance on the local scene and the comfortable difference at the top of the league between it and its closest pursuers, where Ancelotti can adopt the principle of rotation, which he does not like very much until the end of the season, which could give Seville a boost. Extra to think of winning.

"We are in good shape," Ancelotti said last week. "We have a comfortable difference in the league and we have to keep it."

Barcelona and Atletico to heal the wounds

Unlike the Royal Club, the second pole of the capital, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​is dragging disappointment after their exit from the Champions League and Europa League, respectively. The first played on Wednesday in the second leg of the quarter-finals, a stormy match at home against Manchester City, England, which ended in a goalless draw after losing 0-1 in the first leg, while the Catalan club suffered The next day, he lost a thunderbolt at his "Camp Nou" against Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany 2-3 (a 1-1 tie in the first leg).

Barcelona seemed to collapse after his humiliating exit, but he will try in a relatively easy match on paper when he receives Cadiz Monday at the end of the stage, to heal his wounds and quickly forget what happened to him with the aim of tightening his grip more on second place and reserving his seat for the Champions League next season.

The loss of the Europa League evening shook the throne of the Catalan club, which is searching for its eighth consecutive victory in "La Liga", but coach Xavi Hernandez must restore confidence in his players and continue his adventure without his young star Pedri, who left the "Camp Nou" stadium Thursday at half-time due to an injury.

"Currently there is criticism and pessimism," Xavi said. "But Barcelona must bear this and believe, starting from Monday against Cadiz. Our main goal is to qualify for the Champions League."

For his part, Atletico Madrid, who receives Espanyol on Sunday, hopes to return to the winning streak after losing to Real Mallorca 0-1 in the last stage, which led to a strong moral blow to Argentine coach Diego Simeone's men in their struggle for a European seat.

The stage opens on Friday with Real Sociedad's sixth meeting with Real Betis, where the host will have the opportunity to snatch fifth place from their guest if they win, as they are only two points behind them.

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