Real Betis Faces Its First Friendly of the Preseason

This Saturday, after a long wait, and despite the transfer window taking up most of the attention, it is finally Betis’ day . Pellegrini’s men, who this morning trained for the last time in the charming town of Seefeld in Tirol , are finishing the first phase of their preparation in the Austrian Alps and putting the finishing touches to the first summer match, which takes place tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. at the Max Aicher Stadion against Austria Salzburg .

The same will serve to start getting the rhythm of competition for the squad and for the coaching staff to see their team in action, start making tests and finish deciding the future of some other footballers for the coming campaign. We will be able to see minutes of, if not all, most of the youth players of the expedition -Guilherme, Mendy, Ismael Sierra, Álex Vergaz, Lucas Alcázar, Mateo Flores, Sorroche, Pablo García and Marcos Fernández-, the debut of the four new faces -Adrián, Diego Llorente, Perraud and Iker Losada-, players already recovered from their injuries suffered last season -Marc Bartra or Chimy Ávila- or, for example, Juanmi Jiménez , with his future up in the air returning to wear the green and white after his year on loan.

Real Betis Faces Its First Friendly of the Preseason.

Those who will not be able to participate will be the three footballers who did not travel to Austria to continue recovering from their discomfort, such as Marc Roca , Isco Alarcón and Cédric Bakumbu , who have continued training alone at the Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol to get fit and be with the rest of their teammates as soon as possible. Neither will the internationals Ayoze Pérez , Germán Pezzella and Johnny Cardoso , the latter joining the training camp in the United States next week, in addition to Assane Diao and Jesús Rodríguez , who are playing the European Under-19 Championship with Spain.

They will face a modest rival, Austria Salzburg , a team belonging to the Austrian third division , who will receive the green-and-white team in their usual ground in what will be their third and last summer friendly. The blanquivioleta club will serve as the first touchstone for the Betis , who will present a starting eleven that is difficult to predict, but in which the presence of, among others, Nabil Fekir is expected , who has arrived at the preseason in great physical shape and eager to continue in Heliopolis and recover his best version after the doubts surrounding his figure.

In this way, Real Betis Balompié faces what will be the first of its six preparation commitments. Liverpool , Manchester United , Al Ittihad , Raja Casablanca and Bayer Leverkusen are the teams that complete the Betis preseason calendar before what is truly important, the start of the 2024/25 season , with the first league match against Girona on August 15 at the Benito Villamarín and the subsequent preliminary round of the Conference League .