Betis reaches the final stretch installed in the ‘pellegrini zone’

It is not any circumstance. There is the possibility that at the end of the course, the team that ends in the fifth first position obtain a place for the next edition of the Champions League. After 28 days, Villarreal and Betis have the same number of points, 44, although the team trained by Marcelino has a pending match against Espanyol postponed in his day by weather alert. The meeting at the Ceramic Stadium is scheduled for April 27. Two weeks before, on day 31, Betis will receive Villarreal. In December, the Verdiblanco team won 1-2 at the Ceramics Stadium in the first round of the championship.

The dispute over Europe

at the end of the season

Betis situation on the 28th day

Put in classification

Source: Own elaboration

Graph: A. Montes / ABC Sevilla

The dispute over Europe

at the end of the season

Betis situation in

The 28th day

Put in classification

Source: Own elaboration

Graph: A. Montes / ABC Sevilla

Betis arrives with good feelings to the final stretch of the season. Installed in which it can be considered ‘Pellegrini area’. Since the arrival of the Chilean coach to Heliopolis in 2020, the Betic team has faced the last ten days of LaLiga in a situation reminiscent of the current one. Only last year, at this same heights of the competition, the panorama presented something different since it was eighth in the classification. But in the first three seasons with Heliopolis coach’s pellegrini, Betis reached the 28th day among the top six classified.

The best score obtained by the Verdiblanco team before facing the last ten days of LaLiga in the Pellegrini era took place three years ago. A season to memory for that of the title of champion of the Copa del Rey. 49 points obtained Betis after 15 wins, four draws and nine losses in 28 days of LaLiga. A course in which Betis was until the end immersed in the fight for Europe. When there were ten days left to finish it was fifth in the table, two points out of the room (Atlético de Madrid). In the last ten games he signed the Betis 16 points (four wins, four draws and two losses) and finished the First Division Championship in the fifth position with 65 points, five from the classified room, Sevilla.

Identical numbers

Before and after that 22-23 season, Betis reached the 28th day of LaLiga after drawing a similar path. 45 points signed in both courses. In the first year of Pellegrini as a coach in Heliopolis, the Betic team won 14 games, tied three and lost eleven. Numbers that led him to face the last ten days of LaLiga 20-21 from the sixth position, with the same points as the Royal Society, which was in the fifth place. Betis did not lose in the last ten days. Three wins and seven draws was his balance. In the end, sixth classified.

Thirteen triumphs, six draws and nine losses were the numbers of the Betic team once 28 Days of LaLiga 22-23. 45 points in total that were momentarily left in the sixth position with 45 points, two less than the Villarreal, fifth classified in those moments of the course, and six of the Royal Society, which was in the fourth place. In the last ten days of the championship he added Betis to his particular balance 15 more points after four wins, three draws and three losses. The Verdiblanco team ended, as in the first year of Pellegrini in Heliopolis, as sixth classified. For the third consecutive season, classified for the next edition of the Europa League.

And the 23-24 also ended with continental classification of the Verdiblanco team, specifically for the access play-off to the league phase of the Conference. Betis finished the First Division Championship in the seventh position with 57 points. The Verdiblanco team had faced the last ten days after ten wins, twelve draws and six losses left, on day 28, in the eighth position. To a point of the Royal Society and Valencia (sixth and seventh position respectively). Betis signed a final stretch identical to that of the previous course (15 points) with four wins, three draws and three losses.

Now the outcome of a new season remains to be known. In the fifth year of the Pellegrini era in Heliopolis El Betis has reached day 28 with 44 points after twelve wins, eight draws and eight losses. Sixth in the classification. After the break for the selections meetings there will be no pause in LaLiga until the last day. The Betis calendar includes, in addition to the derby against Sevilla, matches at Benito Villamarín against Villarreal, Valladolid, Osasuna and Valencia, while at home the Betic team will face the meetings against Barcelona, ​​Girona, Espanyol, Rayo Vallecano and Atlético de Madrid.