When the English judge Anthony Taylor whistled for the last time, Estadio Benito Villamarin in Seville broke out for joy. Real Betis probably beat Jagiellonia Białystok 2: 0 in the first quarter -final match of the conference league and before the rematch in a week in Podlasie is one foot in the best four games. The players of Adrian Siemieniec came down from the pitch, uncomfortable, as befits athletes after such a defeat. Nevertheless, there will be a time when they appreciate how far they went in European cups, when no one had a broken penny on it in the summer.
It was a great reward for Jaga, but Betis dominated the Polish champion. Such our football fate
A trip to Benito Villamarin in Seville was a huge adventure for the whole football Bialystok, and at the same time a great reward for Jagiellonia Białystok for the last great months. Because to get up to the quarter-finals of the conference league, “Yellow-Reds” had to first win the Polish historical championship, and then write surprisingly well in European cups. Who would suppose after summer high defeats with Bodo/Glimt and Ajax Amsterdam that in the League of Conference Jaga from the next ten matches will win as many as six and lose only two?
FC Copenhagen, Molde or Cercle Brugge remained in the defeated field, but it was clear that this time Jaga would have to face an even higher shelf rival. Maybe even higher than opponents from summer eliminations. After all, Betis is doing great in 2025. Since the beginning of the year, “Verdiblancos” in La Liga scoring worse only than Barcelona, with which they recently drew 1: 1 away. This result, otherwise very good for Betis, interrupted a series of as many as six league winnings of the band Manuel Pellegrini, and even teams from Madrid came from Benito Villamarin from the field – in the autumn of Atletico and recently also Real.
Therefore, 0: 3 Jagiellonia, even with a very clear football advantage of the hosts, is also not a reason for shame. Oh, our football fate, when a lot of water in the Vistula must pass, to be able to compete with the leading forefront of La Liga seriously as equal.
Betisu fans motivated Jaga. What an atmosphere! “We dream”
The quarter -finals of European games attracted over 56,000 on Estadio Benito Villamarin fans Betisu (with such an audience Jaga has not played yet!), Although “Verdiblancos” they played “only” with the Polish champion and the team, which in Spain Virtually nobody knew until Spanish journalists began to record interviews with their compatriots Jesus Imaz or Miki Villar. Not only that, the Movistar+ television league transmitting La Liga or the Champions League has even conducted a competition in which the Jaga T -shirt with the number and surname IMAZ was to be won.
Nevertheless, it didn't even need the beginning of the match for the Polish champions to feel the atmosphere of this one of the largest facilities in Spain. Betis fans sang their club hymn, which at Benito Villamarin sounded extremely impressive. Even in the Premier League, it is extremely difficult to find this level of doping volume.
“I dream of another spring with the celebration of Nueva Plaza” – such a banner from the sector of the most die -hard fans of Real Betis greeted just before the meeting of Footballers Manuel Pellegrini. And in this form, Betis really is not without a chance even with Fiorentina or Chelsea.
Even the Spaniards drew attention to fans from Bialystok. “These people will not want to leave”
Fans of Jagiellonia in the number of over 1,200 people also decided to take this opportunity for such a beautiful football trip. Before they checked in in the stands, Benito Villamarin organized an effective march from the center of Seville.
Later with them entrance There was a confusion and tensions with the Spanish police, What we wrote more about here. However, when the match began, Jaga's fans included in the guest sector they also got carried away by football. Even at times so that they cheered without shirts, as Spanish journalists noticed. “These people will not want to leave from here,” commented the amazing Spaniards as they saw the Polish champions in the stands playing in the best supporters.
After the meeting, when the Spaniards already left Benito Villamarin, fans from Bialystok thanked their players for their adventure, which they can experience with them. “Jaga, thank you!” – You could hear.
Class difference on the pitch. Pellegrini also thought about the league, Jaga needs a miracle at home
The 2: 0 result for Real Betis does not close the fight for promotion to the semi -finals of the conference league, but certainly less optimistically you will be able to approach the next week's rematch in Bialystok, when you look at the large football difference between the two teams. The paradox of this meeting was, however, that the first half of Jaga lost 0: 2, and in the second, when she was pressed to the wall by Betis, there was no goal. Ba, even Jagiellonians had a moment of joy when Jesus Imaz hit the hosts' net after the break, but it quickly turned out that at the beginning of the goal action he was clearly burned.
It is also impossible to notice that Manuel Pellegrini, Betis coach, in the second half also thought about the upcoming league meeting with Villarreal, a key in the fight for fifth place in La Liga, which will almost certainly give the game in the Champions League next season. Already during the break, Isco came off the field, and then even the scorer of Cedric Bakambu and Jesus Rodriguez goals. Well, however, since even the representative of Argentina Giovani Lo Celso or former Barcelona footballer Marc Bartra reported on the pitch.
In the rematch in Bialystok, which will take place in a week, Jagiellonia needs a miracle, but if she could score a 1: 0 goal, with a set of audiences at Słoneczna, extremely interesting things can happen.