I did go against Sevilla last rond on their trip to Osasuna, but after surviving the early scare they emerged as deserved winners, but only slightly so, and continued their winning run in La Liga to 6 games.

What is worrying is that they have had an incredibly easy run, all those 6 teams are relegation candidates! Last time they met a good team in La Liga ended in a loss vs Atletico, and they were also made fun of in the hands of Dortmund in the CL. The one and only decent performance vs a good team was the first cup semifinal leg v Barcelona on Feb 10th when they won 2-0. It was however a performance - and a lineup - from Barcelona that Koeman has probably learned from. The defense was bad that day, some of the players were purely horrible, and Sevilla punished from the individual mistakes. Since then Barcelona have gotten Pique back to central defense, and Araujo is close to return.

Sevilla's top striker En-Nesyri has scored 13 goals in La Liga, but his numbers are returning to the mean and he is not that good striker, as his tally of 1 goal in last 4 shows. The best player of Sevilla has recently been the attacking centre-back Kounde, who also scored a miraculous long run goal in the previous Barcelona match.

Sevilla are good, but to realistically be in top-3 they miss individual class until Papu Gomez fully finds his role and position in this team. Wing players Ocampos and Acuña are still out, and Sevilla will again give a very predictable performance and lineup which is good enough for the bottom-half, but is it enough vs Barcelona who have been the best team in La Liga on 2021?

On paper it looks bad that Barca played last time on Wednesday, but in reality they were able to rotate attacking players, and all in all Elche were so much behind in this low-paced game that it was just a nice rehearsal, and a chance for Messi to connect with Pedri, and he also made Braithewaite almost look like a decent partner again.

The good news at Barca are the return of Pique, the constant improvement of briliant Pedri, the threat from Trincao whose self-confidence is returned, and the leading role of De Jong. Yes, there was this silly 1-1 draw with Cadiz last weekend where Barcelona mostly wasted long and shots, and they were outplayed in CL too, but domestically they are the best team at the moment and on an improving trend.

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上一场塞维利亚的比赛我压了，他们在对阵奥萨苏纳的比赛中幸存了下来，但他们的胜利是应得的，但只是轻微的，并且继续他们在西甲的胜利到6场比赛。

让人担心的是他们的比赛非常轻松，这6支球队都是降级的候选者!上次他们在西甲遇到了一支强队，最后输给了马竞，而在冠军杯上他们也被多特蒙德嘲笑。唯一表现不错的是2月10日对阵巴塞罗那的第一轮半决赛，他们2-0获胜。不过，科曼可能已经从巴塞罗那的表现和阵容中学到了一些东西。那天的防守很糟糕，一些球员非常糟糕，塞维利亚因个人失误而受到惩罚。从那以后，巴塞罗那把皮克带回了中卫，阿劳霍也即将回归。

塞维利亚的顶级前锋恩-内塞里在西甲联赛打进了13球，但他的数字正在回归到中位，他并不是一个优秀的前锋，他在过去的4场比赛中只打进了1球。塞维利亚最好的球员是进攻型中后卫昆德，他在上一场与巴塞罗那的比赛中也打进了一个奇迹般的长传进球。

塞维利亚表现不错，但是要想真正进入前三，他们就会错过个人比赛，直到帕普·戈麦斯完全找到他在球队中的角色和位置。边路球员奥坎波斯和Acuña仍然缺阵，塞维利亚将再次展现出可以预测的表现和阵容，他们在下半时足够出色，但这足以应付2021年对阵西甲最佳球队巴塞罗那的比赛吗?

在纸上看起来糟糕,巴萨打上次周三,但在现实中他们能够旋转进攻球员,和所有在埃尔切都在这low-paced游戏只是一个漂亮的彩排,梅西与Pedri联系的机会,他也再次让Braithewaite几乎看起来像一个像样的伙伴。

巴萨的好消息是皮克的回归，佩德罗的不断进步，特林曹正重获自信的威胁，以及德jong的领导地位。是的，在上周末和加的斯的比赛中，巴塞罗那大部分时间都在浪费长传球和射门，他们在冠军杯中也被击败了，但在国内，他们是目前最好的球队，而且正在改善。

预测比分1:3。