Although it has been in the last four days when it has gone from occupying the third position to cement a solid leadership, seven points behind the promotion, Vicente Moreno's Espanyol chains a tremendous ten-game streak in LaLiga Smartbank undefeated, since last January 31 Rayo Vallecano traced back a 2-0 at the RCDE Stadium to finish 3-2. A series of encounters that has already passed more recent history.
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In nine the streak of Espanyol 2018-19 was left, which in the last stretch of the season chained five wins and four draws, or what is the same, nine rounds undefeated to epic qualify for the Europa League in the last breath, in the 2-0 against Real Sociedad on May 18, 2019, with Joan Francesc Ferrer ‘Rubi’ at the helm. Currently, although the competition is not First, the trend is of six victories (against Mallorca, Sabadell, Logroñés, Castellón, Fuenlabrada and Albacete) and four draws (Lugo, Sporting de Gijón, Oviedo, Mirandés).
The next Espanyol to beat is the one that marveled at the first round of the 2007-08 season, reaching third place in LaLiga Santander, led by Ernesto Valverde. They were 14 the rounds that he chained without losing, with a balance of nine wins and four draws, and with a climax like the majestic 3-0 at Villarreal on Twelfth Night 2008. The difference between then and now, beyond the category, is that the current streak occurs in the second round, when the ' Txingurri 'precisely sank.
Espanyol players, after the third goal against Albacete.
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But, even if Vicente Moreno's team manages to equal or exceed those 14 days, Espanyol's historical record in the First Division will already be impossible to reach the 22 games in a row that he managed to be with José Antonio Camacho in Segunda, in the 1993-94 campaign, without losing. An incredible milestone, which was based on 15 wins and seven draws, and which curiously ended with the 4-0 that gave the parakeets the mathematical promotion.