Levante is saved, Espanyol sinks

On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, Levante came to light, which justly added a victory that procures it except for the permanence debacle, with 38 points. And it was made at night to Espanyol, who after a promising restart of LaLiga returned to the old ways, with a very painful defeat with a goal in his own goal included that returns him to the tail of the classification, to the winter, discarding a golden opportunity (perhaps only already) to show his head.

Just as Paco López resolved with a natural change, Melero, the loss of Rochina, preferred Abelardo to delay David López to the axis of the rear in the absence of Bernardo, as he had already done in Getafe for 70 minutes, and give entry to Víctor Sánchez in the core. Through this triangle transcendental actions transited.

Between two identical teams, it was Levante that carried the weight of the match. And scored at insistence. Diego López saved a solitary boarding school of Bardhi and in the continuation of the same play Mayoral sneaked in to establish the 0-1 between Víctor, David and Cabrera, who for more inri immediately saw his fifth yellow. Espanyol's is horribilis ’minute.

The centrals could mend their mistake in the 28 ’, when Cabrera served one of his throws with the force of a corner and David crossed it at the near post with a header to tie it. The ball stopped again, even without Bernardo.

And on the brink of rest came the controversial move. Mayoral scored again, after several rebounds, and Del Cerro Grande immediately canceled it for a rigorous offside by Melero, for interpreting that when he bends down he annoys Diego López in the trajectory of the ball.

Levante only collapsed at times and Espanyol grew, not necessarily in this order, in the restart, but in Aitor all the timid occasions of Calleri and especially of Embarba died.

But the goalkeeper with the most stops this time was not Granota, as he has been throughout LaLiga. Levante scored the 1-2 in another solo play by the talented Bardhi, and immediately Diego avoided the away goals, in auctions by Clerc, Postigo and Hernani. The changes worked for Paco López, but not for Abelardo desperately.

Far from finding the tie, he found misfortune in Pedrosa's own goal, a metaphor for the misfortunes that persecutions persecute this course, among which have been forged on their own merits and those that are to be consummated except miracle.