Álvaro and Fuego, reunion with Chen's first sketch

The visit of Sporting RCDE Stadium not only evokes last season with the presence of David gallego on the Asturian bench. There are two other members of the squad who wore the blue and white jersey, such as Javi Fuego and Álvaro Vázquez, vestiges of the first Espanyol of Chen Yansheng, both signings that pleased Quique Sánchez Flores and made by the technical secretary Angel Gomez.

Now, in Sporting, they live opposite trajectories, as they also suffered in the perico team. While Fuego is untouchable for the coach (he has played 14 games), the Badalona striker only started once, last Thursday against Albacete, and accumulates a goal in the little more than 250 minutes he has played. In the parakeet box his situation was even. Javi Fuego played 46 league games in a campaign and a half, while Álvaro only played ten games in his second spell at Espanyol.

Fuego was a transcendental player in Quique's first campaign, when Espanyol broke the points record of the Cornellà-El Prat era (56) and finished eighth. A positional player, with intelligent tactics and great defensive work, gave the team balance. He was sold to Villarreal in January 2018, when Quique's adventure at Espanyol began to falter (he flirted with Stoke City), a maneuver to lighten the salary limit. Although it was only a year and a half, the player's performance was remarkable.

Álvaro's case was Kafkaesque. Espanyol paid 3.5 million euros to Getafe for the player on the last day of the market, when the youth squad embarked for A Coruña. So much insistence caused a frenzied last day. But, when the forward arrived at Sant Adrià, Quique hardly had him. In fact, the first year he played ten games and the second had to go to Nàstic on loan. 'Alvarito', an inveterate scorer in grassroots football, has played a total of 70 matches in the First Division with the Blue and Whites and ten goals.

In fact, in the Spanish They were also aware of the Catalan forward this market. Aware that I would not have many minutes in the SportingÁlvaro was one step away from going to Sabadell, but finally there was no agreement. If that had occurred, Victor Campuzano He would have ended up safely at Sporting, taking his place. Finally, both Alvaro as Campuzano they are playing very few minutes.