Público en
Budapest y los bávaros, más temibles que nunca. Lopetegui apela a las virtudes
propias pero ha ensayado con tres centrales.
Vuelve el público
a las gradas del fútbol de superelite aunque los rigores de la pandemia,
creciente en Hungría, España y Alemania, provoque que menos de 2.000
forasteros, más los hungaros que se animen, vayan a tener la ocasión de dar
color al coqueto estadio en honor de Cañoncito Pum, el Puskas Arena. Juegan el
Mia San Mia (nosotros somos nosotros), ese grito de pertenencia y sobre todo
determinación del Bayern, contra el Nunca se Rinde con el que el Sevilla
convierte sus finales en un pequeño Sánchez Pizjuán. Budapest acoge esta noche
una Supercopa de pronóstico desigual que enfrenta a dos entidades modélicas
(sigue el partido en directo en AS.com). A escala gigante el Bayern, capaz de
sostener su mastodóntica estructura mediante un carácter muy bávaro, poco
internacional, y con recursos básicamente autóctonos. Menos faraónica, pero tan
propia y especial, es la personalidad de este Sevilla que construyeron los
fichajes de Monchi en dos etapas, inaugurada la segunda con más plata para las
vitrinas, otra vez, y cuyo estado de gloria pretende alargar derrotando a un
club siempre fiero que estos días de goleadas comienza a parecerse a Godzilla.
Ocho le metió al
agonizante Barcelona de Setién en los cuartos de la Champions que acabó por
ganar a finales de agosto en Lisboa y con ocho abrió también el viernes la
Bundesliga ante el Schalke. Entrenador de perfil bajo que llegó para un rato y
apunta a quedarse una dinastía, Hans-Dieter Flick ha perdido al cerebro Thiago
pero ha ganado vértigo, más aún, con el fichaje del vertical Leroy Sané.
Gnabry, Coman, Goretzka, Alaba, Lewandowski, Kimmich, el rayo Alphonso
Davies... Este Bayern conjuga potencia y control con la precisión de sus épocas
más florecientes.
Lopetegui
matizará el carácter profundo y dominador de su equipo, uno de los que más
posesión tuvo en LaLiga el año pasado. La falta de Banega en la sala de
máquinas y del motor Reguilón en la izquierda son una incógnita a resolver por
el técnico vasco, que ha ensayado en los días previos con una defensa de tres para
blindarse ante la esperada Blitzkrieg (aquella Guerra Relámpago de la Segunda
Guerra Mundial) alemana. Habla Julen de "mostrar los puntos fuertes"
y no arredrarse ante la dimensión del rival, en clave meramente futbolística,
pero quizá olvida una virtud casi tan importante: la reciente pero ya
legendaria resilencia de su equipo en las finales, también de Supercopa aunque
perdiese cuatro de las cinco que ha jugado, dos de ellas (contra el Barça en
2015 y ante el Real Madrid en 2016) con el dolor añadido de una prórroga. La
Europa League del coronavirus en Alemania, la de Bono y el Manchester United,
la de los goles de De Jong ante Lukaku... mostraron el camino a seguir para
superar obstáculos colosales. Por eso: pase lo que pase no te rindas, Sevilla.
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