Coudet is leader again

Eduardo Coudet is synonymous with leader in 2020. The Argentine coach topped the Brazilian league standings when at the beginning of last November he left South American football speechless by terminating his contract with Internacional de Porto Alegre and accepting Celta's proposal, which was on the verge of relegation places. Since Chacho arrived in Vigo, no one has added more points and goals in LaLiga than the celestial picture.

The replacement for Óscar García has achieved nine points in four games, the same as Sevilla and Atlético, but has scored more than the other two best teams in the last month. The olives have pierced eleven times the rival goal, while the Hispanics achieved it six times and the colchoneros, four. Athletic and Valladolid, both with seven goals, are the closest to Celta's record.

With the triumph of Monday against Cádiz, the Celtic fans remembered what it was to celebrate three wins in a row. I had not done it since January 2018, with Juan Carlos Unzué on the bench. In almost three years another four coaches (Mohamed, Cardoso, Escribá and Óscar) have directed a dressing room that got used to living flirting with the precipice.

Europe

Celta saved the category in an agonizing way in the last two seasons and in this one they had returned to their old ways. Coudet took charge of the seventeenth classified and now the Celtiña team has made it into the top ten, two points from Europe.

The calendar of the whole of Balaídos until the end of the year invites us to think that you can eat the grapes in the European zone. He will receive Alavés and Huesca at home, and will visit Getafe. However, the coach who has transformed the team that until his arrival was the least scorer in LaLiga, does not want to hear about anything other than looking for what he has classified as “exclusive objective”: permanence. A very measured speech, similar to the “match by match” of his compatriot Diego Pablo Simeone, is one of the hallmarks of 'chachismo'.

Other maxims of this philosophy, which in Vigo recall Eduardo Berizzo's 'totismo', are verticality and pressure. Using the same lineup that Oscar used in his last game as a sky coach, Coudet has given the team another shape. his 1-4-1-3-2 system has resurrected the attacking full-backs, centered the position of Denis Suárez and, above all, has completely released Iago Aspas. The moañés is going to recital by game and it is already LaLiga's top gunner and the second best assistant.