Mallorca faces the curse of the “engineer” tomorrow, as Manuel Pellegrini, Betis coach and graduate of the Catholic University of Chile in civil engineering, is known. In the previous 21 games in which he found it He was only able to defeat him once. in 2010, when he was in charge of Malaga. The rest of the confrontation throws an overwhelming balance in favor of the most veteran of the First Division technicians: 15 wins and 5 draws.
Pellegrini has always been bad at Mallorca. In any of their teams, and especially now at Betis, the first team this season to defeat the rojillos in the National League Championship after a highly controversial arbitration by the Asturian González Fuertes, who awarded two penalties in favor of the Andalusians, both converted by Borja Iglesias.
Interestingly, the balance of confrontations between Javier Aguirre and Manuel Pellegrini presents a very different balance and, in fact, the Mexican has beaten the Chilean more times (7) than he has lost (5). Aguirre also does not credit a bad balance against Betis, whom he has won seven times, losing eight.
Mallorca will try this Sunday at two in the afternoon to put an end to Pellegrini’s curse, in a match in which they will once again be able to count on the Kosovar Vedat Muriqi, once the sanction has been completedbefore the Royal Society. On the other hand, everything indicates that the Slovakian Valjent, who has not been able to train normally throughout the week, He will not arrive in time for the clash in Seville, although it will be this noon when Aguirre makes the call public and clears up all doubts.
Betis arrives at the match ranked in fifth position, with 42 points, 10 behind Mallorca, which is tenth. The Verdiblancos come from being eliminated from European competitions by Manchester United, so they will focus on the League with the goal of reaching Champions League position, for which they fight with Atlético de Madrid and Real Sociedad.
