Since football is football, there are loggers, footballers, generally defenders, who let the ball pass or vice versa but never both at the same time, using any type of procedure. Dozens of names come to mind, well known to all fans. It is fair to admit that some of them have been in the ranks of Sevilla Fútbol Club; As we must also admit that we have had expert coaches in the management of what is called ‘the other football’, whose greatest exponent today is Diego Pablo Simeone, Atlético de Madrid coach who hides the ball boys as soon as he advances on the scoreboard even in minute two of the game.
These are ways of understanding football and strategies that fall within what is permissible and understandable, although for some they may seem archaic, not very aesthetic, or inappropriate for a show, as football is conceived today. What about the current Getafe, however, is something else: it is making the game mess up from the first second. What Bordalás does is a dirty version of Simeone, making fouls the pillar on which his game is based to the point of turning it into a constant that unhinges the most painted rival. For this, the character who sits on the Getafe bench, to whom the term coach cannot be applied so as not to discredit that group, surrounds himself with players capable of applying his proposal even if it is dirtying his career.
In that task, Nyom stands out, a specialist in underground firewood who should not finish a single game if the Spanish referees had a minimum level in the application of the regulations. Without going any further, Saturday’s match at the Sánchez-Pizjuán was a clear example. Barely six minutes into the match, the Getafense side committed a resounding penalty in a corner by persistently grabbing, to the point of knocking him down, En-Nesyri, without the referee Martínez Munuera or the Referee González González being unfazed. Minutes later, the same Nyom slams Koundé in the face after being dribbled in a play by the bottom line of the Sevilla attack without the lineman, a meter away, nor the referee finding out.
These two mere details were premonitory to intuit what ended up happening later. The conjunction of a dirty ‘bench occupier’ with aggressive players, to whom the term footballers cannot be applied either so as not to discredit the group that runs this beautiful sport, together with a permissive referee with bad arts can only give as resulted in a shattered ankle of a rival, as in fact happened. If there were justice in football, the aggressor Djené would be punished for at least the same time off as Lucas Ocampos for the injury he has caused, in the same way as the referee, who had to resort to video to see the play because he didn’t even notice the wild action live, he should be frozen in the fridge for the same games that the Argentine striker will miss.
Banished from the stadiums by the presidents of all professional clubs, Bordalás should remain, a true master lumberjack who, knowing his guilt, intends to focus on JLo’s onslaught by expressing, it is true that aside from the most correct channels, his extraordinary anger at the savage aggression suffered by his footballer. Because JLo was right at all times in his performance: first by taking an interest in his pupil, then by pointing out the stump of the Getafense aggressor strategy and, finally, by apologizing for not being up to what is required of a club coach Mr. like Sevilla Fútbol Club.
However, although there is no justice in football, generally football is fair and, how could it be otherwise, those who limit themselves to mistreating the ball and rival legs left the Sevilla stadium with three goals in the bag and a real soccer bathroom. JLo should use this antidote more frequently to calm his momentum on certain occasions and calm his spirits in the face of the high companies that await him since his work as a coach begins to be written in capital letters.
Once again, his Sevilla Fútbol Club left a clean sheet, overwhelmed the opponent, deployed endless football resources to win, consolidated its winning team dynamics, evidenced the breadth of a team of involved and motivated footballers; In short, it offered a true show that should have pleased any viewer, whether or not they were a fan of our team. That is the excellent Sevilla Fútbol Club that Julen Lopetegui is building, whose soccer greatness is the antipodes of the dirty practice that Getafe of this Bordalás, whom Monchi has kept away from Nervión for many years, is spreading through the stadiums. Let’s hope that those rumors that once pointed to him as an occupant of our bench will never ever reappear.