García Pimienta rethinks his defense against Real Sociedad

11/02/2024

Updated at 7:02 p.m.

He Seville will face this Sunday the Royal Society at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán on the twelfth day of LaLiga EA Sports. Garcia Pimienta account for this match with the losses of Suso, Saúl, Ejuke, Nyland, Badé and Nianzou leaving the absence of the last two footballers mentioned a relevant lack in the axis of Sevilla’s defense. The Sevilla coach is studying how he can replace the two French players, starters in the last league victory against Espanyol.

In the cup tie last Wednesday, García Pimienta opted to line up Marcao as a left-footed center back and the youth player Ramon Martinez as his companion in the dexterous profile. After the break the coach left the Brazilian on the bench, filling his vacancy with Kike Salas. In this way, the two available center backs had 45 minutes in the duel preceding the match against Real Sociedad.

Although García Pimienta has tried numerous centre-back combinations throughout the season, Marcao and Kike Salas have not confirmed a couple under their mandate at any timewhich is why one might think that the coach intends to use another tandem in the center of defense this Sunday.

In the press room he was questioned about this matter and García Pimienta considered the option of using Ramon Martinezalso pointed out that another possibility is with Jose Angel Carmona (usual right back) without forgetting Nemanja Gudeljwho in recent games has been playing again as a midfielder although he has settled into the central defender role in quite a few games during his time as a Sevilla player. Using the last two footballers mentioned in the center back position would free up another vacancy in another area of ​​the pitch.

For all of the above, the big unknown in García Pimienta’s eleven for the match against Real Sociedad will be in the central zone of the defense.