Espanyol does not progress

Espanyol remains on the life preserver that constitutes the direct ascent zone to First, although even on points with Almería -which has a pending game- and to five already Mallorca, precisely the next rival of a Vicente Moreno who will visit his former team this Sunday. And it will in your moment of greatest uncertainty, due to the irregular baggage of a parakeet that He has only won one of the five days that have been played in 2021, by three defeats and a draw, this Monday, in Lugo (1-1). Not even bad results shake his ideology, both in terms of names – if it is a matter of planning, he is not the only one responsible – as well as games.

The glaring example is the lineups. On this streak, barely make changes that are not required due to circumstances, such as the red one that Lluís López saw in Las Palmas or the accumulation of warnings that prevented David López from playing against Rayo Vallecano and Sergi Darder at Anxo Carro. Since the year began, only four adjustments among the headlines have been by Moreno's own criteria. Before Las Palmas, he gave entry to Miguelón Llambrich instead of Óscar Gil and Nico Melamed to the detriment of Óscar Melendo, the latter being his main movement of pieces in these days. And in Girona, he put Leandro Cabrera and removed Fernando Calero, who fell to Lugo for the return of David.

Nor does that jolt needed by every team in a pothole seem to break in with the substitutions, because in Montilivi and against Rayo there were none until the final ten minutes. And in Lugo it did advance them but the technician walked far from exhausting them, despite the adverse outcome. Perhaps the entrance of Landry Nany Dimata seems like the big green bud for something to change in the next few weeks.

Regarding the game, Espanyol insists on drinking almost always the same way. Defensively, commit past mistakes that seemed forgotten in the first leg of the championship, especially losses in a confusing exit of the ball, which are costing him the loss of all the solidity that he had built so well: of his 15 goals against, five have come in the last three games. The opponents are taking the measure.

And in attack, he also perseveres if the game contexts are twisted in two almost unique routes: the inspiration of its talented footballers and the lateral centers, as much as the squad did not have a clear profile of finishers until now. A whopping 41 put in Montilivi, of which ten found an addressee, and up to 33 served in Lugo, but only four good ones.

With everything, that luck of overturn that the team still needs To reverse his losing streak of results – not qualifying, for now, due to the income from an outstanding first round – he collides with the calendar. With the visit this Sunday the current leader, Mallorca, which leaves in the air again if it is the convenient time to revolutionize the alignment. To vary the pattern, not even to surprise some rivals who are beginning to have the measure taken of parrots. Time is there. But in Son Moix you cannot fail.