After Covid regulations, Canales and Fekir returned. They trained along with the club and now they are ready to face Mallorca on Sunday.
La Liga is very important
Manuel Pellegrini insists on the importance of LaLiga to hunt down this season’s goals. And his line-ups also reflect that the great priority is to maintain this growing pace in the league championship to try to extend that presence in the Champions zone of the classification. And to look for a victory against Mallorca this Sunday or he will have two fundamental pieces back in his plans, perhaps the most decisive of his squad: Sergio Canales and Nabil Fekir. Neither of them was present in St. Petersburg for the Europa League match. The first due to COVID, the second due to sanction. Now, both want to give a new blow and be incisive in the eleven of the Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini.
Mallorca will face Real Betis with better attacking line
Neither Canales nor Fekir were on the pitch at the Gazprom Arena. Without them, Pellegrini decided to rest William Carvalho and thus launch a clear statement of intent about the priorities he tries to have when using his best assets. They do aim to be all three against Mallorca. Canales to be more creative in that scheme of the Chilean and Fekir to be differential in attack. Will Pellegrini use his best weapons in the following matches? His rotations are unpredictable. But he also always stressed that his footballers are prepared to play two games in a row per week without this wear and tear affecting his performance too much. For this reason, the coach is confident that Canales and Fekir will start a race of challenges that begins this Sunday against Mallorca. And that there is continuity in this reappearance of two of the great figures of this Betic project.