Sevilla v Getafe Preview, Sunday April 12

By: Anthony | April 12th, 2009

We look to keep up our amazing league form against a struggling Getafe side this Easter Sunday in El Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.

So it’s needless to say really that even despite what I had to say in my last post, we probably have no chance at the league title this year and since we also dropped out of the UEFA Cup and Copa del Rey, we have one objective – Champions League qualification. We currently sit in third place with a massive 57 points and this combined with the fact that (thanks for the stats Aaron!) Villarreal has lost 3 of their last 4 in the league, Málaga was winless in 4 of 5 before upsetting the Yellow Submarine yesterday afternoon, Valencia has only won 2 of their 7, and Atlético has one of their last four. We have been steadily pulling away for about a month now having won 6 of 7. only the mierda has a longer winning streak, pretty impressive stuff in my opinion. Having said all that, we’re probably in as good a position as any to qualify for next years Champions League but tomorrow’s match against Getafe will either be one where the visitors from Madrid realize they’re probably going down and fight with everything they have resulting in us having to really earn it or we’ll just play like we have of late and add another exclamation mark to “El Sevilla Campeón”.

The reverse fixture last year in Madrid ended 2-0 for us with Luis Fabiano grabbing the first goal and De Mul scoring the second which was also his first ever while wearing the rojiblanco.

Getafe has lost four of their last five league matches and things won’t get any easier when they come to play the (second) hottest team in La Liga right now.

This was always going to be an extremely difficult task for the visitors but it gets even worse for them as Julien Escudé and Luis Fabiano are both back in the squad after their minor injuries which kept them out for last week’s win over Recreativo in Huelva. It looks as if Duscher and Konko are both still recovering from their respective injuries and will be game time decisions by Jiménez as to whether they play or not.

The official squad named for tomorrow’s match is as follows: Javi Varas, Palop, Mosquera, Dragoutinovic, Squillaci, Escudé, Adriano, Fernando Navarro, Fazio, Maresca, Renato, Romaric, Capel, Perotti, Jesus Navas, Luis Fabiano, Koné and Kanouté.

It’s needless to say that our big star Fredi Kanouté will look to keep up his stunning goal scoring form seeing as he’s now made Sevilla history having scored as many as Croatian legend Davor Sukur. With his partner in crime, Luis Fabiano back Getafe’s back line is going to be a very busy one also seeing as Navas has been in-form of late as well. With Navas’ deadly pin-point crosses, Perotti’s or even Capel’s quickness and Romaric’s solidity throughout the centre, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t walk all over Getafe tomorrow.

I think Goal.com (shame on me, yes I know) said it best here.

PREDICTION

Getafe will be fighting for their right to stay in La Primera and have much to lose in this match. Unfortunately for them, they could well lose the match as well. Sevilla are determined to secure their Champions League berth and are much too dynamic a side at home. A buzzing Sanchez Pizjuan should prove to be too much to overcome for Los Azulones.

Sevilla 3 – 1 Getafe

Sounds about right to me folks.