Manuel Pellegrini stated that playing in the Europa League quarterfinals “would be historic”

Manuel Pellegrini, coach of Betisdefined that “it would be historic for the club” to beat for the first time, on the seventh try, the spherical of 16 of the Europa Leaguefor which they must overcome this Thursday in La Cartuja the drawback of a objective that they’ve from the first leg in opposition to Panathinaikos.

Pellegrini defined this Wednesday at a press convention that his crew should “go out with calmness, intensity and confidence in what they do” to win the tie, since they face a “difficult rival who defends well” in opposition to whom they’ve “the capacity” of the “absolutely committed group” that he coaches.

The Santiago coach assumes the favoritism of the Andalusians, though he remembers that “that must be demonstrated on the field” as a result of “in Europe, you cannot look at the name of the rival” with out contemplating “the perspective of what a continental competition is”, though he’s “convinced that the team tomorrow will measure up.”

Thus, Pellegrini He admitted that being eradicated “would be a very important setback”, though Betis has “two paths ahead of them to reach the Champions League”, that “the possibility of the fifth team going” to the high European competitors is latent, so a hypothetical defeat “should not leave other objectives aside”.

The Verdiblanco coach praised a fan who has “accompanied every game” below the premise that “the more united” all the teams are, “the better for confidence”, however, even so, he “found so much tension in the game against Celta strange” final Sunday.

“In the second half we didn’t win, but the team gave another image and we were applauded until the end. We must be doing something wrong so that the fans are not supporting us at times,” admitted Manuel Pellegrini.