The stars were conspired, and not in a precisely positive way, so that Espanyol-Oviedo was a day marked by fire in a very specific demarcation. In fact, could be reserved in the calendar of any parakeet on March 5 as the day of the sides. Until four different they marched through the bands of the Blue and White team at the RCDE Stadium in just 90 minutes. As many as they had played in the previous 27 games Second.
Right from the start, the Low due to suspension of Adrià Pedrosa – who in the previous game, against Sporting at El Molinón, had seen his fifth yellow in an innocent action in which he annoyed goalkeeper Diego Mariño – led to the Dídac Vilà's return to the pitch, nine days and three months later, to occupy the left lane. Something even more twisted happened in the right hand, with Miguelón Llambrich seriously injured from the visit to Mallorca and with Óscar Gil, his substitute, with discomfort that had prevented him from training all week. It was Lluís López, who in fact had already relieved him in the final minutes of Gijón for the same reason, who assumed his position in the lineup.
And if Lluís was more than correct despite being a pure central defender, since even started the 1-0 play with an inside pass, in the other band Dídac marked the sign of the meeting, with a very hard tackle on the ankle of Juanjo Nieto that first was yellow but, after having it checked by the VAR, it became a direct red.
There he continued, because there was no other choice, the side dance, since with ten it had to be Leandro Cabrera who fell to the left-handed band so as not to leave lame behind. Fortunately, The Uruguayan had served in said demarcation during a good part of his time at Zaragoza and in a section of his journey at Getafe.
Javi Puado ended up playing on the right side.
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There was still the final fireworks, which Vicente Moreno led to desperately search for the winning goal, when In the 82nd minute he retired Lluís López to enter Nico Melamed. In that final stretch of the match against Oviedo, it was quite a (second) point as Javi Puado who took care of the right-handed side like one more defender.
Y on the bench there was still a pure side, the youth squad Omar El Hilali, who was serving his second call-up at LaLiga Smartbank –the first had been at Espanyol-Girona–, upon his return from the U-20 Africa Cup, but who has not debuted yet. If Óscar Gil's annoyances persist, he will most likely be the next new face in some bands that until now had been divided between four tenants: the 17 Miguelón games on the right hand for Gil's ten, and Pedrosa's 20 on the left for Dídac's eight.