Borja Iglesias parks the past

Betis's victory over Osasuna gave Manuel Pellegrini a break and gave Borja Iglesias a breath of hope. The forward scored the Verdiblancos' first goal after not seeing the opposing goal since January. Almost an unprecedented year. His achievement deserved a smile. “I needed it,” he admitted after the crash, also knowing the merit of his assistant: “Aitor put it for me as a movie, it was a manual play”. At Betis, the hope grows that Borja Iglesias will recover the scoring nose of the past. He scored 20 goals for Espanyol before landing in Heliópolis last season and did not shine despite his well-known alliance with Rubi. It is now Pellegrini who tries to find his best version after playing all the possible keys of his attack. Yesterday the turn was for Loren and Borja took advantage of his few minutes to register his first goal of the season.

The Betic team believes in Borja Iglesias and the support for the striker was a clamor. Even Sergio Canales, absent due to injury, congratulated the Galician's agreement, who is fighting to meet the high expectations of his signing after arriving at Betis in exchange for almost 30 million euros. His goal also reflected his virtues, beyond the anecdotal final auction. His game of support is remarkable and he started the play of that masterful against brilliantly. With spaces and allies, he is more comfortable than under a more static attack model.

At the Verdiblanco club they celebrate this goal by Borja with a sideways gaze on a winter market in which their striker can be a revenue asset on the table. The economic coffers currently represent a deficit and the salary mass must fall before LaLiga's notice, so the Galician name is one of those that enters the long deck of pieces that can say goodbye to the entity in the form of a loan or transfer.

Pellegrini does not think about movements of his squad, although he recognizes the existing economic problems, the same ones that already conditioned the formation of his squad in the summer. The Chilean wants to look to Europe and not to relegation and for now he avoided the first great crisis of the season at the hands of an effective Borja Iglesias. The forward promises work and dreams of goals, the same ones that served Espanyol a year and a half ago to sneak into European competitions. The first of them is here and it serves to cut a losing streak of 25 games without scoring. Too many to be able to present arguments of hope. Too many to turn off all existing doubts at once.