Coach Jose Luis Mendelibar succeeded in his first test at the head of the technical management of Seville when he led him to a valuable victory over his neighbor Cadiz 2-0 in the Andalusian derby on Saturday in the twenty-seventh stage of the Spanish Football Championship.
And Sevilla contracted on March 21, succeeding Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, who was dismissed from his position due to poor results, and he became the third coach to be contracted by the Andalusian club this season, after he sacked Julen Lopetegui last October.
Sampaoli did not support his leadership of the team to the quarter-finals of the European League competition “Europa League”, where he will face the English Premier League giant Manchester United, as the club’s worrisome position in the league led to his dismissal, especially after losing to Getafe 0-2 before the international break.
Sevilla suffered throughout the first half to create real chances to score, and waited for the beginning of the second half to score against its neighbor through Argentine midfielder Lucas Ocampos (51). The Moroccan international striker reassured the supporters of Seville by adding the second goal in the 74th minute, following a pass from striker Brian Gill.
Seville took advantage of Getafe’s stumbling in front of its host, Athletic Bilbao, negatively, and snatched from it the thirteenth place, by one point, after raising its score to 31 points, five points behind the positions leading to the second degree, while Cadiz fell to the sixteenth place after its balance frozen at 28 points.