Espanyol will close on Sunday, finally, a disastrous season crowned with the descent to Second from one of the worst Blue and Whites teams in the history of the Catalan club, in terms of negative records.
Starting Monday there will be time to analyze the debacle and get down to emergencies get to work to plan a project cwith face and eyes to compete in the Second. And one of the priorities, after hitting the coach, it will be to reinforce the lead and endow a team very lacking this year with gunpowder, one of the great ballasts that has plunged him into hell.
The attackers, 12 of the 27 goals
Rufete already said it Thursday night after the game in Mestalla, where his team lost unfairly. “We have lacked definition”, a ‘must’ that has been undermining the parakeet team throughout the campaign. We stick to the numbers: Of the 27 goals that Espanyol have scored so far, in LaLiga, only twelve, have been signed by the attackers, less than half of the overall scorer.
It is still curious that the ‘pichichi’ of the LaLiga locker room share it with so only 4 goals, Tomás, Wu Lei and a man of defensive cut, as he is David Lopez. And from there the goal is tremendously socialized as up to eleven more players Incredibly few forwards have scored: Calleri, a target; Ferreyra, una, Vargas and Campuzano have been left blank in the League, Embarba being the only blackbird To rescue: 2 goals and 4 assists.
The rest of the goalscoring team is divided up to 27 points, Bernardo (3), Marc Roca, Darder and Cabrera (2), Pedrosa and Granero (one). Very little participation of the forwards in the scoring facet, hence it is not surprising that Espanyol is by far the least goalscorer team in the championship, the worst playing at home (15 goals), as well as away (12).
At Mestalla, Espanyol improved their image compared to previous games and deserved to score, as they had more chances than the ‘che, but not for those, did they get to score at least one goal.
Nine games, 8 losses and only 2 goals
With the defeat in Valencia he chained his eighth defeat. And what is more bleeding, in the last 9 games it has added a draw, the 8 losses mentioned and only two goals. Thus it was impossible to create any miracle in this Express League, synonymous with torture for the Espanyol de Rufete.
Starting Monday, focusing efforts to tie one or two ‘killers’ is essential to start in Segunda with arguments to think about a promotion.