Espanyolismo woke up this Sunday with a bad hangover after the derby at the Camp Nou. Digesting a double feeling that went from the most rabid indignation for the penalty which meant the triumph of Barça, at the hard disappointment for having missed an unbeatable opportunity to have hurt the eternal rival. For a lack of success and fortune that unhinged every parrot. The “decisive” play of the game, as highlighted Vicente Moreno, the penalty of Cabrera on Memphis that cost him the defeat, continued to raise many blisters today. And suspicions. David Lopez He recalled that it rained in the wet in the history of derbies in culé territory, a fiefdom where parrots have felt harmed more than once in the last decade.
“History repeats itself. There are many already here. Busquets puts his finger in my eye and it is not a penalty, Xavi faints with Baena and it’s a penalty … And I could shoot back. The hand of Messi… We are pissed off because our club, our fans, deserve much more, deserve more respect and we cannot remain silent, evidently ”, affirmed the captain in declarations to the club’s media.
Too Rufete, the sports director, raised his voice to request more respect from the entity. “Espanyol deserve respect. Players they deserve respect and our fans deserve respect. That’s what I can tell you. It is the feeling that we have right now ”, he affirmed after the meeting. He emphasized that the Blue and White team “went from less to more and the result is not what we deserve. We have done what we have been demonstrating, but it is a shame that in a derby, in a match like this, one does not talk about football but about other things ”.
But disappointment and rage at the missed occasion having ‘wet’ at the Camp Nou due to their own mistakes, it was also a common feeling in the parrots in the last hours.
An anger that was born in some critics to the conservative approach of Vicente Moreno, above all the burden that meant that his team took too many minutes to take a step forward and put a soft Barça in trouble when pressed. And that culminated in the uneasiness that the fans had to see that when Espanyol went upstairs to ‘greet’ Ter Stegen, the lack of success Due to errors of his own bulk (that of Dimata) or lack of fortune (two posts), he caused the goal to never come. And it was not for lack of occasions, because the parakeet team had up to six (one in the first part and the other five from minute 60), being Raúl de Tomás the monopolist of four, three very clear.
The Camp Nou is choking Espanyol. Since 2009 (Delapeñazo) the Blue and white team already has 14 defeats with Saturday’s. RDT and that Espanyol had Barça on the ropes in the final stretch, when the Barça parish asked for the time, it was the positive reading in a perica key of a ‘hot’ derby. Another one.