This is the tactical analysis that UEFA makes of Betis’s triumph against Gent: “Defensive cohesion and offensive dynamism”

He Betis It has a foot and a half in the round of 16 of the Conference and that is due to the great group work of the Verdiblancos, who improved ostensibly in the second half to the point of demolishing the Gent’s goal three times. Hence, UEFA itself wanted to assess through a team of professionals dedicated to the analysis how Pellegrini bent the Belgian team in that first of the continental play offers, standing out without going any further «defensive cohesion and the offensive dynamism »that allowed the Verdiblancos to be better than their opposite and also forget the bad drink suffered in LaLiga in Balaídos, headquarters of their last appearance, and incidentally give a blow to the European table in the absence of definitively sealing their site next Thursday.

Is On the official UEFA website where an exhaustive study is offered with videos included in key plays about Betis’s behavior at the Planet Group Arena. Specifically, the UEFA technical observer Leif Gunnar Smerudonce a selection of the Norway Sub 21 team, in collaboration with the UEFA Analysis Unit, it emphasizes how the Verdiblancos managed to adapt «to counteract the first direct attacks of the local team and punish their rivals with an offensive approach controlled and vibrant», Put from said football body. Although it seems at the end, it was not easy for the Betic Table They did not end up in goal to then hit after the resumption.

UEFA establishes before this point of the encounter that the Gent got possession at times to overcome the heliopolitan defensive line and thus win integers to stop the shot incessantly and manufacture a possible second play, beyond the continuous associations in three quarters before Those who suffered Perraud and Sabaly, something that Smerud considers that he represented a “fast and direct style, often with long passes to the strikers and with the midfielders going up to the attack to win the rejection and leave behind their rivals,” they deserve .

“Greater collective awareness”

Improvement in Pressure management On a verdiblanco side I was going to allow Pellegrini to take command of the match and the occasions, no doubt helped all the great shot of Antony in the 47th minute of the clash to open the score in Ghent. The analyst explains about this that «the approach of the second part stopped the Gent game image by pressing and disrupting his game. Betis turned around so that the problem was his rival, ”he says, with greater performance in all his lines. “Betis showed a defense and a much more awake and agile field, with a greater collective awareness of the passes and careers that caused problems in the first part,” they strengthen.

One of the big names that UEFA exposes to the collation of Heliopolitan progress has to do precisely with Antony as with Bakambuwhich was the author of the second goal of Betis before the Gent in the 71st minute, since it is the Congolese who despite the fatigue jumps quickly to press the central, who yerra against Antony, Antony passes it to Isco and the Malaga filtra With the outside to a bakambu unmarked, which raises the OLE to UEFA in this triangulation that supposed the 0-2: “Excellent work and a lot of quality, both with the ball and in pressure,” they say in those combinations.

It was Altimira who closed after the boat of a corner the win in Belgium, but UEFA stops especially in Natan’s work, who along with Bartra ruled from behind the Verdiblanco defensive order. “Natan read the pressure on the ball very well and cooperated with his midfielder (Marc Roca), his left side (dog) and his central partner (Bartra) to decide who was responsible for controlling which plays,” said Smerud, who left To finish a reflection that incumbent and much to the present of Betis by the projection of several of the members of his template: «It is important to be aware that what often separates the levels is What happens when nothing happens’». A message that helps the Verdiblancos to better understand the European meetings in which its potential must still teach before the rivals of greater draft such as the Vitoria de Guimaraes or Chelsea, waiting for some hipotetic eighths to which it is not yet classified The Betis.