{"id":3252,"date":"2026-09-14T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:23:05","slug":"pellegrini-backs-inigo-perez-and-says-villarreal-can-recover-before-betis-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Pellegrini backs I\u00f1igo P\u00e9rez and says Villarreal can recover before Betis visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manuel Pellegrini returns to La Cer\u00e1mica with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-betis-691\">Real Betis<\/a> on Monday, playing down <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/villarreal-226\">Villarreal<\/a>\u2019s uneven start and backing I\u00f1igo P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to El Peri\u00f3dico Mediterr\u00e1neo, he said the early slump should not dictate the campaign and that P\u00e9rez is highly capable and will end up getting the results Villarreal expect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A former Villarreal manager from 2004\/05 to 2008\/09, he argued that a strong run will have Villarreal back in European places, adding that by budget and squad they are well placed to push, alongside Real Sociedad and Athletic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The round five <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">LaLiga<\/a> EA Sports fixture kicks off at 21:00 on Monday 14 September at La Cer\u00e1mica. Pellegrini confirmed Ez Abde returns to the squad after training normally for the past three days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/dani-ceballos-63567\">Dani Ceballos<\/a> is also included, still awaiting his Betis debut, and will be eased in after a long lay-off and missing pre-season. Iker Losada is omitted for technical reasons, while Aitor Ruibal, Diego Llorente and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Morante are not selected as they have only just returned from injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Pellegrini criticised early-season scheduling, saying a Monday slot benefits neither side and questioning the need to play three matches in a week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/pellegrini-backs-inigo-perez-and-says-villarreal-can-recover-before-betis-visit-43457659\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Pellegrini returns to La Cer\u00e1mica with Real Betis on Monday, playing down Villarreal\u2019s uneven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434576593Fdate2026-09-14.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}