Real Betis against Fiorentina: Preview

A limp, but still effective Fiorentina returned to the conference league and with a trip to stand in the first competitive meeting between these famous clubs. A meeting that I will optimistically consider the derby di Joaquín. The match will be continued Thursday, May 1, 2025at 7:00 p.m. GMT/3:00 p.m. EST in the Estadio Benito Villamarín in Seville. The prediction requires a crispy spring evening after a few days of rain. Therefore, it should be absolutely perfect for the 1500 fans who are expected to take the trip.

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Three things you should pay attention to

1. Moise Keans presence. After a week in Paris to deal with a personal problem, Moise Kean returned to the team this morning and, apart from the rest of the squad. Raffaele Palladino has teamed up a functional attack with Lucas Beltrán and Albert Guðmundsson in advance, mainly through the historical heating of Rolando Mandraagora), mainly in the box (i.e. Rolando Mandraagora), but that does not feel sustainable. El Vikingo and Albert did well to keep it away, but Fiorentina is obviously better because the nuclear moose leads the line.

The question is whether Kean will be ready or not. We don’t know what’s wrong with him and I don’t want to speculate. Physically, a week free of charge should be too big. In fact, it could have been useful to rest your legs. However, we do not know where it is mentally and emotionally. If he is not ready to start, his teammates have to find out how this tie can be kept up to date in the second leg. Everything – Fiorentina’s attack and defense, Betis’ attack and defense – refers to whether it is available or not.

2. Who stops Isco. ISCO’s revival this year was organized for a specific romantic brand. The career of the former Golden Boy looked pretty good after he and Seville agreed to dissolve his contract in December 2022, which led to a 6-month spell without a club. As a serial winner with Real Madrid, he is exactly the kind of creative number 10 that has given up the modern game due to its sluggish playing style.

Betis took a plane on him in 2023 and recorded the rewards. He leads La League in the shooting campaigns per 90 minutes and serves as the center of the best attack in Spain outside of the Big 3. Antony, Abde Ezzalzouli and Jesus Rodríguez, the pace goes out, while Pablo Fornals, Johnny Cardoso (Fiorentina Foots, Foots, Foots), and William Carval, and William Carval, in in The balls, in the ball, in the balls, in the balls, in the balls, in the balls, in the balls and in the balls, in the times, in the times, and in the ball feet, in the balls, and in the ball. Upding defensemals. Now 33, he no longer has the outbreak as a dribbler himself (although he remains excellent in tight rooms), but his temporary creativity focuses on the descriptions of the descriptions.

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Palladino will probably try to defend yourself in a low block and to refuse every room behind these fast wings. This means that the challenge is pretty simple: Betis has to unlock this deep defense, and the man who is best equipped with it is of course ISCO. Refusing the space between the lines and keeping a body on it at any time could be the most important task of the viola. This means that Danilo Cataldi has to be his best side, but he will help from his midfield colleagues and even from the defenders who step forward.

3 .. I am not a big trailer to one of the above forces, but it is difficult to deny that Fiorentina feels the semi -finals of the Conference League for a 3rd year in a row. There were narrative reasons that the association won in 2023 (brave emerging upward trend against the power of the Premier League) and in 2024 (redemption for the previous loss). This year’s not other: a new trainer, a new group of players, the chance of resting ghosts that are not of their own production.

In this reading, the viola simply has to reach the final and finally earn redemption against overwhelming favorites Chelsea. If this were a sports film, this is the result that you would expect because Denzel Washington as Rafael Palladino presses the right buttons. I do not like this way of thinking because she rejects Betis from the real threat of gaining the trophy for the action of devices, and this only demands trouble. Perhaps it would be the best to remove the yoke of the unfinished business from the shoulders of all and free them, concentrate on Serie A and build for the next year.

However, my greatest fear is that the universe will decide the funniest/cruelest result that reaches the final and loses the last possible moment, probably in punishments when a faulty seagull flies over the target and blocks Rolando Mandragoras Panenka to accelerate the victory. As a fiorentina fan, I always expect the most psychologically harmful result, so it is switched off in comparison to being switched off earlier and avoiding even more pain. Regardless of the result, it will be too easy to justify it as what was previously written, and everyone simply played a previous role.

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Real Betis is quite popular in this first leg, although I can imagine that this line is quite a bit a little going depending on the status of Kean. Nevertheless, I think that the hosts deserve to be favorites because of their entire talent (this list bumps into international quality players) and their latest form is sparkling, with only 1 loss in their last 13 games in all competitions in the last 13 games. Fiorentina was no longer at hand and has less calm due to the Cagliari situation last week and a long journey.

However, Betis was not as good as expected at home (W13 D7 L4). However, it is even more important that the Verdiblancos fit the profile of a team against which the viola exchanged this year: they will push high, dominate the possession and, above all, take advantage of the space to visitors during the break. I will call it a 1-1 draw to set up the most dramatic possible final in Florence next week, with goals from Cucho Hernández and a compensation from Late Set piece by one of the defenders. How about Pietro Comuzzo and achieved his first senior goal? I will also get David de Gea back as a man of the game, as this feels like his time.

Forza viola!