He Spanish began its new stage, this next season in LaLiga SmartBank and with Vicente Moreno leading the team, with a friendly match in the Dani Jarque Sports City before the Sports Society Huesca, that this course will return to play in the highest category after he was proclaimed champion in Second division. It was the first test of the preseason for both teams, which resulted in the grass with disjointed and disjointed football at times, although it was played with impetus by the players from both sides and that ended in a draw (1-1).
It would be foolhardy to draw conclusions in the staging of the Espanyol 2020-21, although some traces of what will be the approach of Vicente Moreno, a technician, yes, “malleable” and willing to modify his notebook according to the circumstances. In his debut he bet on a 4-2-3-1, with Wu lei on point of attack and Melendo playing behind the Chinese. He lined up two players who can come out in this summer market (Cabrera and Marc Roca) and showed his love for the quarry, counting from the beginning with Victor Gomez, Pol lozano and Nico Melamed. Next to them, the recently renovated Diego Lopez and Dídac, the central Calero, who wants to turn the page to his previous season (disastrous), and a Embarba that must be a key in this new Spanish.
The starting ‘eleven’ does not have to resemble, much less, the one of the first day of the League, it is assumed that within three weeks, since there were no important players such as RDT, 'Spoiled' by his physical problems, as well as Darder (it will be necessary to see if both remain), the only signing so far, Fran Merida, who will join the training sessions with the group on Monday after having to comply with the health protocol, or David Lopez, who started the game on the bench.
For exciting names that does not remain, but the Huesca already made it clear to Spanish that a path of thorns awaits him to return to the elite. The youngsters will have to mature at forced marches to become strong in the silver division. It will not be enough to play the first half hour at a good level – in which Melendo scored the goal after a recovery of Dídac and an assistance of Nico Melamed-, and then lose gas and remain in the hands of the rival. In Second, the rivals are ‘old dogs’ and they do not forgive, as the Huesca, which with the base of last season took control in the final stretch of the first half and drew through Polished, in a strategy action (corner taken by Ferreiro and Rafa Mir combing the ball at the near post so that the central, also with the head, scored).
The carousel of changes that both coaches introduced in the second half made it even more difficult to make an analysis, especially in the Spanish, well Vicente Moreno brought in, among others, the youth Omar, Mahicas, Jofre and Gori, although maintaining the same game scheme, and with Campuzano, replacement of Wu lei, as the most dangerous player. The bad news, the muscle injury suffered by Pedrosa in the 87th minute, which can keep him out for several days and make him fall from the squad of the U21 National Team.