Badé’s long ball, Bryan gets ahead of the defender and moves the ball with a slight and precise service to En-Nesyri, who crosses into the area before David Gil leaves. Three touches and a 0-2 to kill Cádiz, who until that final stretch of the game pressed after the tie. A goal under the premises of good sense for which José Luis Mendilibar was signed just a few days ago, in search of salvation: simplicity as a paradigm of style.
In his first public appearances as the third coach from Nervion this season, Mendilibar already warned actively and passively that he intended to get away completely from baroqueness in the departure of the ball and the construction of the game became a patron by Jorge Sampaoli. Accustomed to playing with a certain vertigo in previous teams, especially in that Eibar with which he came to surprise LaLiga, the Basque coach seemed to qualify his idea in pursuit of a vital victory to breathe and look at permanence with some optimism.
In Cádiz, Sevilla did not press in a crazy way but the high block did allow him to steal some very dangerous balls. He did not get dizzy in the corners, although he did take some short and the 0-1 came after a set piece. And also He knew how to stand up when the situation needed it, against a feisty Cádiz. Without showing off or an obvious improvement in the game, four adjustments put together the team and the rest was done by the effectiveness of a team that, yes, continues to have the same framework that allowed them to go to the Champions League for three consecutive seasons.
After the match, Mendilibar confirmed this desire for elasticity to take advantage of his team’s greatest virtues: “We have to get our players used to our idea. In the end, football is everything, you can score goals with two touches or with 40. We have to convince ourselves more that we have to win the ball in the opposite field. In the 4 or 5 occasions that we have had, we have scored two goals. That is the difference between Sevilla and other teams, these players are capable of scoring goals””, affirmed the Basque coach after its victorious debut at the Nuevo Mirandilla.
Ocampos, starter and scorer in this debut, reinforced this perspective: “We played with a more recognizable style for Sevilla. The little time we had to train with the new coach was positive. It only remains to move forward. He arrived, we had to support him, get into his idea and we got three very important points ”. The Argentine, MVP of the match, must serve a sanction against Celta for having seen a fifth yellow card.
“We have been close together and compact, without mistakes, and that was very important. I think it was an intense game but we were good, working together on all lines and taking advantage of chances to score. What the coach asks of us is that we all be together”, added captain Jesús Navas.
