Sevilla will face on Thursday at the Sánchez Pizjuán against Sigma Olomuc his sixth and last appointment before reaching the goal of being in the group stage of the Europa League, a match he faces without confidence despite bringing a favorable 0-1 achieved the last week in the field of the Czech rival.
Already in Olomuc, the technician Pablo Machín found that the Sigma, despite being lost in their domestic competition, put them in many difficulties, to the point that one of the best of the team was the new Sevilla goalkeeper, the Czech Tomas Vaclik , and that the visitor, work of Pablo Sarabia after pass of the Portuguese André Silva, arrived in the final minutes.
In that match, the Soriano preparer gave rest to many of those who are running as starters, by rotating the squad because this Thursday will be the ninth official match of the Seville squad - six European, the Supercopa of Spain and two of LaLiga Santander-.
Thus, before the team coached Czech Václav Jílek is expected to also change after the wear on Sunday at the Sanchez Pizjuán against Villarreal (0-0) and that next Sunday awaits Real Betis in the derby that will play in the Benito Villamarín stadium.
Machín, who led a morning session on the match stage on Wednesday, plans to develop another one before choosing the eighteen that he will sign for the match.
It is clear that the French midfielder Ibrahim Amadou will be out due to injury, suffering a muscle ailment in the right hamstring precisely last Thursday in the first leg, which joins the absence of the lateral Sergio Escudero, who on Sunday was damaged of seriousness the left elbow before the Villarreal.
Both will be low also for Sunday against Betis, a commitment for which it is possible that Machín reserve several players, including two of his men with more minutes accumulated in this tight start of the season, such as the end Pablo Sarabia and the Argentine midfielder Éver Banega.
In any case, the sevillistas, who before overcome with solvency the Hungarian Újpest and the Lithuanian Zalgiris, take this new appointment with the utmost seriousness to get into the draw to be held next Friday in Monaco of a tournament which is five-time champion.
The rival, who arrives in Seville on Wednesday and will train at night in the Sánchez Pizjuán, does not raise his head in the Czech league and is located in the lower zone of the standings with six points in six games.
The Sigma arrives at the Andalusian capital after losing the past weekend 3-0 against Jablonec, in a match in which Václav Jílek did not start until four players who did days before against Sevilla.
That misstep he joined another important local as the previous day against Ostrava (1-4), but contrast the performance between the domestic tournament and the continental.
The Czech team, as fourth of their championship in the last campaign, joined this European phase in the previous round and beat Kairat Almaty Kazakhstan (2-0 and 1-2) with two wins.
His staging against Sevilla in the first leg of this tie was also good, so now we must see his performance at the Seville stadium against a rival who is confident not to be surprised.
- Probable alignments:
Sevilla: Vaclik; Mercado, Carriço, Gnagnon; Aleix Vidal, Gonalons, Roque Mesa, Arana; Franco Vázquez, Nolito; and Ben Yedder.
Sigma Olomuc: Buchta; Sladky, Jemelka, Sterba, Veprek; Kalvach; Zahradnícek, Plsek, Houska, Foul; and Nespor.
Referee: István Kovács (Romania).
Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.
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