The pressure returns to Lopetegui: Sevilla, more ambition than game

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Football is an urgent and affected sport.

Any setback is read as tragedy.

It's part of its charm, but it also explains its demands.

A point of six in the first two days of

is little spoils for a team that was supposed to be done.

's

(

Asteasu, Guipúzcoa; 1966) has started the season as the previous one ended: surly and hesitant.

The transfer market is exciting,

.

The enthusiasm for Isco does not compensate for the doubts at the rear.

Without

, the

team seems like a fragile team.

At the mercy of rival harassment.

and

they got a prize without playing too much.

The directive asks for patience, Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán asks for results.

Against

in the game that will be played tonight at the Power Horse Stadium, more than three points are at stake.

"This has just begun," replied President

at the exit of the floral offering that the Andalusian club makes each year to the

patron saint of the Archdiocese, in the Cathedral of Seville.

He then asked for "patience, union and trust".

The 2-1 at El Sadar, despite the questionable penalty, confirmed the bad feelings of the preseason.

The millionaire sales of the central defenders were a black hole in the

system .

were in charge of protecting

.

The first has never had continuity and, when he has played, he has done it more on the side.

The second is basically a holding midfielder who has only played so far back out of dire necessity.

Hard to bet everything on a couple less reliable than

Against

,

a twenty-year-old central defender who has cost 16 million euros and comes from playing very little for

.

His start was hopeful.

Ninety minutes of enthusiasm and amazing experience.

The technique of chiaroscuro:

, the other addition to the defense, was injured and will continue to be injured for at least three more weeks.

The transfer by

of the Brazilian

, completes the custody positions with

in the pivot.

Everything is already written behind, but in the attack there is work for

Isco

comes to revitalize

which has proven to be too rigid and blunt.

Long barren possessions.

The goal as a treasure for which too many holes have to be dug.

The tip of the arrow in his spinal cord.

A position that

is already far away from and that

has a hard time taming.

It is hard to believe that a team with cutting-edge footballers like

, now injured,

find it so difficult to create danger.

The strikers suffer a lot, an

intermittent

who is nothing like the battering ram that animated the stands in his first red and white matches.

The magnifying glass is on the coach.

Although the president says that it is "a matter of taste", it seems clear among the fans that the squad is made for magic, and not for a conservative and cold strategy like the one proposed by the Basque coach.

It's not playing pretty, it's not such a candid topic, it's playing vertically.

With more puncture.

With more variables.

With a different nerve.

Lopetegui's team has two speeds and little waist.

He has quality, he has patience, he has strength, but he is very uncomfortable when the script is out of the predictable.

The community is killing individuality, when football should be

: that of the self floating, and not submerged, between us.

The Champions League draw, in this poor run of play, has been regular.

will fight for the first two places in

In the nebulous field of the a priori, the classification is going to be complex.

"It's not a group to be satisfied or happy about, but we have to try to be positive," said

after the pots.

Positivity is what the sports director asks of the fans and positivity is what Julen asks of his pupils.

While in the offices it is a question of closing down a finishing striker,

sounds loudly , in the stands the disagreement is shown, not yet angrily.

It's early for drama, but it's never too late for demands.

The

He wants to grow even more and

has the responsibility of reordering a squad with more ambition than game.

With more potential than act.

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