Preview – Numancia v Sevilla; All Good Things Come to an End.
By: Anthony | May 31st, 2009
I don’t care what anyone says, this season has definitely been a success in every way. Sure we didn’t win any silverware to make it the most memorable season per se, but we achieved our goal of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. There have been so many down’s from us crashing out of the UEFA Cup in the group stages to our embarrassing defeat to Athletic Bilbao in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey. Those horrid moments however were all forgotten last week when Diego Perotti latched onto the end of a pin-point Adriano cross to head home the goal which would cement us in third and give all Sevillistas something to be proud of.
Today we travel to Soria to finish off our successful campaign against Numancia but overall it’s a meaningless match – we will finish third regardless and Numancia will be relegated.
There isn’t much to write about this match except for the fact that we will be missing 5 key players; not for any reason other than Jiménez’ decision to rest them. Kanouté, Luis Fabiano, Aldo Duscher, Adriano and Fernando Navarro will all be watching from the stands today as we try to finish off this year on a good note.
The squad for the match will look like this:
Palop, Javi Varas, Konko, Escudé, Squillaci, David Prieto, Dragutinovic, Crespo, Mosquera, Romaric, Renato, Diego Capel, José Carlos, Acosta, Jesús Navas, Perotti, Armenteros, Chevantón and Koné.
Game Notes:
• José Carlos and Armenteros were called up for this one from relegated Sevilla Atlético.
• No Kanouté or Fabiano means Chevantón and Koné will most likely start up top and considering both have been injured for most of the season it will be interesting to see how they perform with no pressure.
Transfer News:
Jiménez stated in a press conference that he has 2-3 midfield targets that he would like to bring to Nervión for next season but made it clear that we will not be held ransom for any deals. Despite having extra cash because of our qualification for the Champions League, Manolo stated that at Sevilla we still have our economic policies and President José Maria del Nido along with Monchi won’t break the bank to bring any certain players in.
When asked about bringing in new strikers for next year he said it all depends on how the injured ones recover and that he will assess that problem mid-summer if need be.
All in all it’s been an entertaining year; there’s no denying that. I hope our boys go crazy against Numancia and send them back to la Segunda in style – Sevilla style.
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wish we’d brought a stronger team out today…i know it doesn’t matter if we win, but this is my last sevilla fix for a few months! if we come away from this with a win, it’ll be pretty shocking–numancia definitely merits a goal here.
but overall, great season. great result for us, and it’s been just awesome finding this blog and some fellow sevillistas to talk with about the games, transfers, coaching situation, etc. thanks, anthony, for keeping the blog active and interesting all year.
¡a por ellos!
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It has been pretty gd having other sevillistas to talk to even for this short part of the season i’ve known of this blogs existence.
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uh oh, betis goes down. the sevilla derby will be missed.
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Numancia showed exactly why they went down; they are pretty bad to put it nicely.
In regards to the blog – YES! Absolutely it stays up during the summer. Last summer is when I started writing but I have no intentions of stopping anytime soon and I hope everyone will be frequent visitors during the summer when we have all the transfer gossip to discuss.
A SEGUNDA O E! It’ll be sad next year with no heated derbies to look forward to but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t killing myself laughing right now.
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Oh yeah (for betis’ relegation the welcome news of the sevilla blog continuing). I’ll be here except for a couple of weeks in 3 weeks time cos ill be in canada
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I’ll reply this way to your Betis post. I’d post this, but my points apply to Sevilla FC as well and I’ve logged out of The Offside.
Yesterday I was trying to figure out how exactly to work the whole posting thing, adding photos (failed there), etc. It took longer than I wanted.
I began to write an introduction whereby I noted that the club (Betis that is) has been an administrative and financial mess for some time now. And, while I thought relegation this season was statistically unlikely (it was), I began to write that relegation was coming. Too many recent seasons had been too close to the drop zone and results had been too dependent on OTHERS to expect survival year-in and year-out. What was more, what the hell did “survival” mean? Survival’s no good; survival’s doing just enough “to stay” (hello Sunderland, Sporting, etc.) Doing just enough is no way to…umm…survive in any competitive environment. Get my drift?
I applied my argument that maybe going down would be, paradoxically, what Betis needed to purge itself of whatever demons (read: De Lopera) have haunted the club for years now. And my point? My point was to expand on Sevilla’s model. Sevilla was shit for years, went down, revived itself and now look at it. I believe this…and I also believe that Sevilla’s renaissance has come at the fortuitous moment that many traditionally good Spanish clubs have crumbled (Celta, Sociedad) or lapsed to mediocrity (Betis, Zaragoza, La Coruna, Bilbao), but that’s for another time.
I suspect that many of the readers here are “younger” and likely started following Sevilla during their current and very successful run. Good for Sevilla fans. But, let me remind you all, that Sevilla and Betis have lived through years of ups-and-downs and Sevilla’s run is still a run…it’s not pre-ordained nor will it be permanent. La Liga is not The Premiership and clubs are not awash in money. Gloat all you want, but temper it knowing that there are two clubs in twenty that are safe each season, everyone else has to be on guard.
Betis didn’t take care of business and merit relegation. Betis will be back.
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Very true Kent and i am yonger and started following during the ‘golden-age’ but not because of that but because i chose a team that is quite good but not constantly in the limelight and i think it would be gd if sevilla and betis became massive rivals although there are many teams which relegation hasnt helped. Not gloating just tell ing you not to get your hopes up
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idk
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