“We have a competitive team that can fight for the Champions League,” explains Luiz Felipe, Betis center back
The Brazilian defender bets on “game by game” in the twelve days that remain to finish LaLiga
The Italian-Brazilian center back of Betis Luis Felipe Ramos has highlighted this Tuesday that Chilean Manuel Pellegrini’s team is “very competitive” and that, therefore, can fight to qualify for the Champions League for the next season, although he opted for the game by game in the twelve that remain.
Luiz Felipe, in the presentation of the match for the sustainability of LaLiga that will be the Betis-Espanyol of the twenty-ninth league game, referred to the Betic aspirations in this championship, in which Pellegrini’s men are in fifth position, three points behind the fourth, which is occupied by Real Sociedad.
The central defender, who arrived this season from Lazio, highlighted the strength of the group to fight for the highest European competitionalthough he said that to reach the goal You do not have to create expectations or make numbers, but look at the next game, in the Betic case against Atlético de Madrid in the Metropolitan after the break
Louis Felipe now advanced that he will be ready for that commitment after having lost the last of Pellegrini’s men due to a muscle injury that occurred in the first leg of the Europa League round of 16, between Betis and Manchester United at Old Trafford.
ready to return
The Italian international defender has worked out in the gym and said that next week he will already be on equal terms with the group for the duel in the Metropolitan and the final stretch of the league after a championship that he described as “very nice” and with which, according to what he said, you have to “keep going”.
The central defender from Colina, who turns 26 tomorrow, elaborated on the importance of the upcoming commitment and the fact that, after the European elimination, those of Pellegrini focus on a single competition in “a very beautiful fight until the end”, so you have to be “focused”.
In this sense, he said that They do not have to do accounts for the Champions League, but to win the next three points because they understand that expectations mean additional pressure to achieve an objective in which the Verdiblanco coach is also involved.
He stressed that the strength of those of Pellegrini, above important absences such as that of the French Nabil Fekir, that of Sergio Canales or his own at times, it is that the group is “a family”, united in its intention to “win”.
“The coach clearly wants to play in the Champions League, but he tells us that we have to be calm“said Luiz Felipe, who this year has played fourteen league games, thirteen of them as a starter, numbers in which the three expulsions of the defender, who guaranteed that, after speaking with Pellegrini, “they won’t happen anymore“.