If we compare this Sevilla with the one from a year ago, we verify that the current squad is much more limited and with less quality than the one then. Infinitely less… because in the first part of the previous 2023-24 campaign, Sevilla had people like Sergio Ramos, Soumaré, En-Nesyri, Rakitic, Acuña or Fernando on its payroll. Of those contrasting elements, little more than a distant memory remains. Today, LaLiga’s salary impositions and terrible management by the rectors in recent years have transformed the Sevilla locker room, almost in record time, into a platoon of common soldiers… and what remains. Because, practically, only a couple of lustrous assets survive in the diminished Seville between the wars. And praying while the majority does so that no one comes with the check to take Lukebakio or Badé. With so much decline and (forced) adjustment plan, it turns out that Pimienta’s Sevilla, who doesn’t play anything, is almost walking closer of Europe than of relegation. The gap in the diabolical zone is already eight points away… and to add insult to injury, if on the next day the neighbor falls in Anoeta and the Pimi boys triumph again at home on Monday with Osasuna, there will be a surprise in the city. How can it be? With a worse team than the previous season, the Catalan coach has scored 18 points in these first 14 LaLiga games, surpassing what they achieved together in the entire first round of the last championship between José Luis Mendilibar, Diego Alonso and Quique Sánchez Flores. That Sevilla scored 16 points in 19 games. All this without taking into account the multiple losses due to injury that now plague the team and the endless social, financial and institutional problems that we all know and weigh down the club and team’s backpack. Incredibly, Sevilla is moving calmly and the key to that relief has a main person responsible: its coach, Xavi García Pimienta. It is optimizing resources in an outstanding way. The former UD Las Palmas player could be blamed for a thousand defects regarding the game and his decisions when it comes to composing the lineup and managing the matches, but in terms of results he keeps quiet and scores at a rate that not even the most Optimists imagined with this team. Pimienta says that by winning through suffering you grow. Football is really about that. Chapeau for him and merits in the relief for the one who brought him, the sports director, Víctor Orta, and for the one who renewed him when he had not even won a game, causing almost a cataclysm between the press and the Sevillistas themselves, which is not other than its president, José María del Nido Carrasco. Everyone has time and work to dodge sticks, but if they are getting it right here, let it be on the record.
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