A goal by Antony rescued a point for Betis at its European premiere. Somewhat that rewarded the effort of the Andalusian team in the second half, where he knew how to overcome the best game and the goals of Nottingham in the first act. A team where the changes worked, especially Marc Roca, sensational in the center of the field to balance a clash that, until its entrance, had a blatant English color. The tie knows very well for Betis, which, for many minutes, was quite inferior to his rival, surpassed in rhythm, strength and speed. The Betic team was advanced on the scoreboard and fell asleep in the laurels. Nottingham shook him strongly, but Betis was held and found a prize. Manuel Pellegrini was accurate with the changes and the draw knows well in Verdiblanco.
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Pau López, Junior Firpo (Ricardo Rodríguez, min. 45), Natan, Valentín Gómez, Ángel Ortiz, Antony, Abde Ezzalzouli (Rodrigo Riquelme, Min. 45), Sergi Altimira (Marc Roca, Min. 45), Sofyan Amrabat, Giovani Lo Celso (Pablo Fornals, Min. 75) (Cucho Hernández, Min. 71)
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Matz Sels, Morato, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Neco Williams, Nikola Milenkovic (Willy Bole, Min. 93), Callum Hudson -odoi (Dan Ndoye, Min. 63), Ibrahim Sangaré (Ryan Yates, Min. 81), Elliot Anderson, Morgan Gibbs-White, Douglas Luiz Luiz Luiz Luiz Luiz Luiz (Dilane Bakwa, Min. 45) and Igor Jesus (Arnaud Kalimuendo, Min. 63)
Goals
1-0 min. 14: Bakambu. 1-1 min. 17: Igor Jesus. 1-2 min. 22: Igor Jesus. 2-2 min. 84: Antony
Referee Sascha Stegemann
Yellow cards
Morgan Gibbs-White (Min. 1), Igor Jesus (Min. 24), Souza (Min. 45), Ricardo Rodríguez (Min. 74), Cucho Hernández (Min. 93)
Betis opened his journey in the Europa League against a historic European football. A Nottingham Forest, founded in 1865 and with a very special peculiarity. It has more European glasses, those won in 1979 and 1980, than leagues, only one. And it also has enormous economic power that has led him to spend 237 million euros in signings this summer. And if that were not enough, Nottinghan is an interesting mix of football. He plays his new coach, the Greek Ange Postecoglou, and knows how to accelerate in the final meters with a speed of the Premier League, where last season he was fighting for the Champions League.
And that in a festive stadium in Cartuja Betis began at a good level. Antony invented a good play by the right wing and Bakambu, headline in Europe, took a great shot to do the 1-0. The Andalusians saw each other on the scoreboard at 15 minutes and the joy lasted little. The Nottinghan tied after a good collective play topped by Igor Jesus and still traced with a goal at the exit of a corner kick converted by that good striker who is Jesus. What happened next was a horror movie for Betis. With a stellar Anderson, English players flew on each play to create one occasion after another in the Betis area. Pau López saved on a couple of occasions and the stick helped in a solo shot by Hudson-odoi.
In those minutes, between 1-2 and 40 of the first act, the physical and technical superiority of Nottingham was overwhelming. The English also took advantage of Betis’s deficiencies in their defensive system. Not only is it a defense problem, it is a team that attacks well and defends badly. With Bartra and Llorente injured, Betis suffered a barbarity in the face of the physical superiority of Nottingham. But I only lost 1-2 to rest.
Pellegrini acted with determination in halftime. He made three changes with the intention of rehabilitating his team. The modifications helped the Andalusian team, especially that of Roca, which gave a lot of consistency to the center of the field in the company of Amrabat. Betis held the bleeding, with Ricardo also more grieved on the left side by the unfortunate Junior. Betis lacked precision and talent to overcome Nottingham, but he no longer suffered. The Andalusians took advantage of the continuous losses of Sangaré and, little by little, they put their rival in the area. Nottingham no longer flew in search of the Betic area and its changes did not help him either. A shot of Fornals passed near the English goal and gave the impression that the tie could arrive. And so it was. The cucho, which came out in the final stretch, gave a good pass to Roca. The media broke the renqueating defense of Nottingham and put it very well to the second stick, where Antony broke into to make his first goal this season.
It was the deserved award for a good second Betic half, in which he knew how to improve his mistakes in defense to impose himself on a Notingham who, after an excellent first time, collapsed to show why he is happening in the Premier, where he occupies the 15th place. Postecoglou, his coach, still doesn’t know the victory after four games on the English bench.
Betis visits the Ludogorest field next week, where you must win and do this point before, possibly, the best team that will pass through the Cartuja in this first League League League phase. “I told my brother that I was going to score. This goal means a lot to me,” said Antony, author of the Betic draw.
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