Espanyol achieved a golden victory this Friday with a lot of suffering and without even having a good game against Valladolid, but finally, they get out of relegation and sleep outside of hell, something they haven’t done in a long time. He won again a month and a half later thanks to a goal from Puado and a second from Roberto Fernández who scored a golden goal in his debut. And he left the field applauded by the fans who already have a new idol.
Manolo González only made one change to his eleven regarding the match against Leganés the previous day. Veliz jumped on point instead of Jofre. The rest, the same.
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Espanyol takes the three points with a goal from debutant Roberto Fernández
Espanyol came out energized and had a couple of dangerous approaches. In minute 6 Antoniu Roca got a good header that went high and seconds later Cabrera emulated him but his header was spit out by the crossbar.
A mirage because little by little Valladolid took control of the ball and with very little danger reached the Perica goal, making the defenders ‘suits’. Good luck for Joan Garcia who already in the 16th minute saved Espanyol, repelling the kick at point blank range by Lucas Rosa. First scare.
The duel became a ‘street runner’, losses of all colors and making it clear to both teams why they are embedded in the relegation zone. Despite everything, Valladolid had more ball in front an Espanyol anxious and unable to make three passes in a row.
And Tejero’s long shot in the 23rd minute It was the only shot between the parakeets’ three sticks. Bad vibes from a nervous team behind and without light in the attack. It looked bad but Puado appeared to bring hope to the stands.
In the 31st minute the captain scored a great goal to open the scoring. He hit the ball in the area with his right, a brutal control, and invented a left-footed shot to beat the Pucelano goalkeeper.
But the 1-0 was not synonymous with Espanyol calming down and taking control, looking for the second. On the contrary. Valladolid, arriving with three passes, carried poison every time they stepped on local ground. And he stroked the tie. In the 41st minute Marcos André only forgave and in the 46th minute Joan Garcia showed offagain to a whip of Raul Moro.
Espanyol – Valladolid, in images
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The second half got off to a busy start. Raul Moro, who is very close to leaving Valladolid for Ajax, was injured with pain in his collarbone and left the club on a stretcher. And in the next play, the foul called by the Pucelanos was resolved masterfully withn a great goal from Javi Sánchez to make it 1-1 in the bright Important ‘slump’ in the stands, seeing that one more day Espanyol did not know how to maintain the advantage, the clean sheet.
Veliz continued to see them as square and Manolo González He chose to put all the gunpowder on the grass. And the forward debuted Roberto Fernández, the last reinforcement to arriveaccompanying Puado and Veliz on point. Also Edu Expósito came out, talent pplowed a very flat average yesterday, like the whole team. A draw was not worth it to Espanyol and they urgently needed to score a goal no matter what. And Manolo’s invention turned out well.
In the 75th minute, Veliz recovered a ball, enabling Omar put a great cross for Roberto to finish at the bottom of theand the network. Arriving and kissing the saint, a target that the people of Cordoba will not forget. The stadium exploded and how the bench celebrated.
The duel went crazy with a Valladolid I want and I can’t but that bit against an Espanyol that defended with all the valuable victory. And a lot of nerves, in the stands and on the grass because the Pucelanos were scary every time they arrived. But Espanyol held on and took three points of pure gold.
ESPANYOL
21
VALLADOLID
RCD Espanyol:
Joan García (3); Omar El Hilali (2), Kumbulla (2), Cabrera (2), Brian Oliván (2); Tejero (3) (Roberto Fernández (3), min.63), Král (2), Pol Lozano (2) (Edu Expósito (2), min.63); Roca (2) (Jofre (2), min.58), Puado (3) and Véliz (2) (Calero (2), min.79).
Real Valladolid:
Hein (2); Luis Pérez (2), Juma (2), Javi Sánchez (2), Lucas Rosa (2); Mario Martín (2), Juric (2) (Amath (1), min.82), Kike Pérez (2); Anuar (1), Marcos André (1) and Raúl Moro (2) (Amallah (1), min.57).
Goals: 1-0, min. 31: Puado; 1-1, min.57: Javi Sánchez; 2-1, min. 74: Roberto Fernández.
Arbitrator: From Burgos Bengoetxea (Basque committee). He cautioned Omar El Hilali (min.45), Juric (min.63), Amallah (min.81), Oliván (min.90+1).
Incidences: match corresponding to the twentieth day of LaLiga EA Sports played at the RCDE Stadium in front of 23,554 spectators.
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