Villarreal conspired to try to get off the pitch slump he was in after the results stuck for the last few days. But the defeat at Betis is far from a worry for the team, which signs, with this setback, its Worst series of 2014 which is about to close.
Although the start of the season had them happy with the promise at the La Plana club, and the Champions League was openly talked about as a goal this season, the final month of the competition was disastrous for the Azulejos’ interests. Although it is true that the winless streak started with a deserved draw at Sadar after coming back from two goals down against Osasuna (2-2).the rest of the results obtained during this period cannot be considered much less good. Another draw at La Ceramica, allowing them to bounce back against Girona (2-2) was the prelude to elimination from the cup at the hands of a team that resembled Pasaroni Pontevedra in less than three categories. Defeat in San Mames later (2-0) every time another one comes against Betis now (1-2:).
“Terrible Year”
In this way, the Yellows sign their worst streak of 2024, bypassing the four games without a win at the beginning of the year. And to find a similar situation, you have to go back almost a year. On that occasion, it got off to a fateful start in 2024, failing to win any of its first four games. The Yellows lost in the league Valencia (3-1)defeated by the Unionistas in the cup, fell in Las Palmas (3-0) and they bound against the house Mallorca (1-1). A terrible streak that they snapped in a big way after the win Barcelona in it Lluís Companys (3-5)
as then Defensive fragility is once again the common denominator at Castellonand in the last four games of the championship, he missed eight goals again. A situation that already happened last season, and for which a coach like Marcelino, who expressed his frustration after the last failure, does not seem to find a solution.We can’t close the gate at the back. And if we want to be at the top with those numbers, then we are not going to be at the top,” he said.