One of the most important weeks for the Betis in the 2024-25 season. In Heliopolis forecast, they hope, it will not be the last. Those of ManuelPellegrini In the race for the fifth place, three points from Villarreal (which … He has one less game) and who has still to visit Villamarín. That position aims to contain this year the award Champions and hence its importance. It is not only about fulfilling the objective and the brilliant sequence with the Chilean of five consecutive seasons participating in Europe but one more step in their successes in Verdiblanco. For this, the club has an eye on Leganés, where Pellegrini, to win, would linked for the first time five consecutive victories in First with Betis and would overcome Lorenzo Serra Ferrer as the technician with more triumphs as Heliopolitan in the highest category. Both are now tied with 78. But before all that is the European challenge in Guimaraes. Overcoming Vitoria would give Betis its first passport to the quarterfinals of a continental competition by the Chilean hand.
Betis has only arrived in Europe in its history twice. Both were in their participations in the Recopa, the competition that put in Liza the Cup champions of the different countries. In 1977 he faced Moscow dynamo And in 1997, to Chelsea. He fell into that round, which has been his continental cap. With Pellegrini the Verdiblancos have reached the round of 16 in the Europa League against the Eintracht, then champion in the 2021-22 edition, and Manchester United, in the 2022-23 season. The past year stayed out in the play off prior to the eighths at the conference against the Dinamo de Zagreb, a step that they already exceeded this year by beating the Kaa Gent.
This European challenge that makes the Conference The shortest way to a title and to repeat European classification makes Betis put all the focus on Thursday’s duel, where Celso, Marc Roca, Chimy Ávila, William Carvalho or Cucho Hernández will not be. The first two, due to injury; the third, sanctioned; And the last two, not registered. The 2-2 of the first leg leaves the entire resolution for the Dom Afonso Henriques de Guimaraes stadium, where the Pellegrini team wants Challenge your European roof. He has to beat a Vitoria that has thirteen meetings without losing in his fief and seven consecutive officers without falling defeated, on a streak similar to that of the Verdiblancos. In the Villamarín, the difficulty of the Portuguese team was already verified, which was second in the league phase of the Conference.
Pellegrini did raise the intertot with the Villarreal In 2004-05 and reached the Champions Semifinals with the Castellón team twice and one with the Manchester City already quarter of the maximum continental competition with the Malaga. His European career supports him to be in these instances in which Betis has not yet managed to compete for almost 30 years. Now he has a remarkable opportunity before him.
Meanwhile, in LaLiga the Verdiblanca situation is better if possible after its four consecutive victories and the jump in the classification to put on three virtual points of Villarreal, fifth. This positive current in First means matching the best streak with Pellegrini in this competition, since In the 2020-21 season He already succeeded by overcoming Villarreal, Getafe, Cádiz and Alavés between February and March and in the following campaign, months before winning the Cup, against Elche, Levante, Barcelona and Real Sociedad between November and December. Achieving fifteen fifteen is another of the challenges before him the engineer in his stage as Verdiblanco, where he has already exceeded other historical records.
But it is that in that duel on Sunday he also has in his hand erected as the Betic coach who has won the most in history. He already matched Sunday against Las Palmas Lorenzo Serra Ferrer With 78 wins. He has needed fifteen meetings less than the Balearic to reach this relevant figure. Now if he expires in Leganés he will be in the first place, something that this campaign will happen logically or in the next, since he has signed contract until 2026. This duel of the best technicians in the history of the club, together with O’Connell and Iriondothe only four who have achieved titles, is reflected in all statistics. In them the Chilean has achieved better percentages of triumphs and more participation in Europe but still needs to reach a second final, as Serra did between its two stages, in addition to the category promotion in 93-94.
Pellegrini has managed to turn the situation so complex with which 2025 began with a game crisis and results but now aspires to write more pages in Heliopolitan history. Its validity is not discussed as the sports referent of Betis Of recent times, knowing how to face many changes in the workforce and taking performance to their players year after year.
Three challenges for a week in which Betis wants to maintain this positive line that he has made him overcome the play off in Europe and link four wins that make him the best team of the last month in LaLiga with a rise in very relevant positions and aspiring to that fifth place that can contain a Champions award to which he has to contribute arriving further in Europe overcoming the Vitoria. «The team has focused its mentality and objective to qualify on Thursday. Once we get to qualify at Conference, hopefully so, we will think of the following three points. We will see at the end of the season what we get to, ”Pellegrini himself expressed after beating Las Palmas. The Chilean does not modify his speech or have these historical figures before him. Winning is the verb that has conjugated the most in Heliopolis and this course is presented another capital opportunity to make history in the place where you have already written gold pages in green, white and green.
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