The box, the egos and the demons that overwhelm Monchi

Betis-Sevilla leaves an unexpected protagonist.

(San Fernando, Cádiz; 1968) went down to the grass after the final whistle.

It is nothing new, but according to the result, the situation of the team, the stage and the passion of their gestures, the Betis fans and a good part of their technical staff seemed forced, dramatized and inappropriate behaviour.

Anyone who knows Monchi denies the provocation, but hints that the sports director is going through a difficult time emotionally in Nervión.

“I have always been an atypical sports director, I know, and I don't regret it.

It's my way of being and I'm not going to change.

Unless the president, the first vice president or someone from security prohibits me, I will continue to do the same.

If someone thinks that because I say that I have a very big ego I am not going to jump on the grass, they are wasting their time », he said just a few weeks ago, in the presentation of

.

A part of his own fans had criticized him for going down to fire

on the grass, sharing the spotlight with the coach whom he himself had dismissed, and these were his explanations.

Sevilla, accustomed to the Champions League positions, now flirts with the relegation places.

11 points won out of 39 disputed is a very poor baggage for a club with its squad and expectations.

The sports director has assumed responsibility for him, but has hinted that the market was conditioned by the financial situation of the club.

«The responsibility, for better and for worse, is also the sports director.

It is also true that the market has been difficult for Sevilla FC in terms of signings, because accounts had to be balanced », he declared.

The millionaire and urgent sales of

and

, two fundamental pieces in the scheme of the defenestrated Lopetegui, did not bring replacements of height.

The team bled to death defensively, and what was exquisite machinery last season was bordering on chaos this year.

In the derby, the frustration and anger of a professional who, wanting the best for his team, came to the fore with the feeling of having made a mistake.

Trust in Lopetegui, despite the signs of decline at the end of last season, the commitment to players who have not yet been up to the challenge, such as

or

, and the institutional instability of Sevilla FC, which will soon arrive once again the shadows of

and his minions have blurred the image of a professional with little blemish like Monchi.

ALTERCATION IN THE TUNNEL

Against Betis, Monchi sought the complicity of his fans to thank them for their support in these troubled times.

On the way back to the locker room,

, head of the physical area of ​​the Betis coaching staff, criticized him for his role.

Several footballers and teammates tried to calm things down.

But the temperature no longer dropped in the tunnels.

“Once the match was over and when we were in our locker room, there was an altercation in the locker room tunnel between players and coaches from both teams.

When leaving our locker room to check what was happening, both teams retired to their respective locker rooms, unable to identify the initiators of said altercation.

We request the presence of the security coordinator, who told us that they have not been able to identify any person involved in the incident, ”reflected the collegiate

in his minutes.

Betis is considering not inviting Monchi to the box again

, according to COPE.

In addition, according to the station, Betis will make a formal and institutional complaint to LaLiga for his attitude and his statements.

“You have been sucking for 20 years,” they say the Sevilla sports director shouted.

The intensity of the game, with three expulsions, numerous yellow cards and a draw that did not make anyone happy, continued away from the pitch and will have more time in the city.

Neither the distance in the table, nor the different sporting status of both clubs at the present time, have served to appease the spirits in the Andalusian capital.

, neither points nor classifications.

"Sevilla is and will be eternally red and white," Monchi wrote on his Twitter account before the match.

The verdiblancos were not going to agree with him.

Sevilla FC has denounced before the State Commission against Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport,

in the Gol Sur stands of the Benito Villamarín Stadium in the run-up to Sunday's derby, for understand that it not only incites violence, but also advocates for it, trivializing the serious events that occurred in the previous derby played in said stadium in the cup match between both teams held on January 15 ».

The flag stick thrown in the cupbearer derby is drawn in the tifo, for which he had to be suspended, and shows a caricature of

with Pinocchio, implying that the reaction of the footballer who was hit by the thrown object from the bética stands he exaggerated the incident.

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