Lately the tables have been turned in Vallecas. Until a few days ago, Rayo were proving intractable and were one of the strongest teams at home this season. In fact, only Espanyol surpassed him. However, the last two weeks have shown a change in trend and now there are three – Espanyol, Leganés and Sporting – the teams that add more points in their fiefdom than the franjirrojos, stuck at 25.
Rayo has fallen four times in Vallecas and three of them – two in the League and one in the Cup – have occurred consecutively. On January 23 came the defeat against him Majorca (1-3, receiving the three rival goals in just 19 minutes), the 27 was eliminated from the eighth of the KO tournament by the Barça (1-2) and this February 7 was the Tenerife who took the cat to the water (0-1). Six goals conceded and only two scored complete the X-ray of Iraola's men.
The franjirrojos falter in their fiefdom and this has set off the alarms of the coaching staff. “I worry that we are playing better outside than at home and we have to analyze it. When the field is like this, maybe we have to play differently because it doesn't give us, “explained Iraola, who insisted on the bad state of the field:” We played a bad game against Tenerife. We were slow, especially in the circulation of the ball. The field was not accompanying and it cost us horrors, we suffered a lot of losses. The pitch does not help, but it is there“.
Now, the Lightning will have a truce. The calendar forces him to play the next two games away from home, in Cartagonova and La Rosaleda. And, based on the latest results, this seems like good news. In their The last three outings have scored a draw (Girona, 0-0) and two wins (Mirandés, 0-2 and Espanyol, 2-3). The last especially meritorious, going back a 2-0 to the parrots, a feat that the franjirrojos They had not achieved since November 10, 2012 (3-2 against Celta).