It will be by approach, by the fans or by the motivation of the players. The factors that make Espanyol a team denied at home, without any victories after eight starts, they are unfathomable. As is your love affair with RCDE Stadium, where they are forging all the good numbers this season. Although perhaps in this case it is not a mere coincidence, but a constant in the career of his coach, Vicente Moreno, who offers his best face at home, not on the parakeet bench but since he hung up his boots.
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* Data updated as of December 9, 2021
Massanassa’s coach, who This season accumulates 70.83 percent of the possible points at home –17 of the 24 that were at stake to date–, comes from signing in the Second Division, 76.1 percent are already in command of Espanyol –48 points out of 63– and, in the computation of its trajectory in all categories, from Second B to First, he has been able to win 67.89 percent of the points that were played at home, either in Chapín, the Nou Estadi, Son Moix or Cornellà-El Prat. Vicente Moreno adds 332 of the 489 points that have been played at home. Translated to a regular season in Primera, would project 38 points at the end.
Both his efficiency point and his worst records were achieved on the bench of the Nàstic de Tarragona, where in the 2013-14 season it took 82 percent of the points at stake since his hiring –32 points out of 39–, while three years later, in 2016-17, it only achieved 40.7 percent –11 out of 27–, which ended up getting him dismissed. Gone are those times, how far are their confrontations as a youth squad of Valencia with Levante, who will be the rival Before which this Saturday Moreno will try to increase his neatness as home insurance.
Delirium among players and fans in the victory against Real Madrid.
Joan M. Bascu (DIARY AS)
The second best start of the century
Proof of the good work of the Massanassa coach at home is that, except last season because it is the Second Division, on only one occasion so far this century has Espanyol had more points at home than the 17 that it has currently, after the first eight days. It happened in the 2010-11 season, with Mauricio Pochettino as a coach, when accumulated 21 points by virtue of the seven consecutive victories with which the season began.
On two other occasions since the turn of the century and the millennium, Espanyol also came to match the current figure, but never get over it at this point. Got it in season 2004-05, with Miguel Ángel Lotina on the bench, and on the 2007-08, under the command of Ernesto Valverde. In both cases, their current record consisted of five wins, two draws and one loss, the same as now, and they always got a win in the ninth home game. So, to stay just as strong as locals, The parrots must defeat Levante and fire 2021 at the height at the RCDE Stadium.