Last step to finish a First lap, without a record

EI Spanish closes the first round before Castellon Sunday with an incentive in hand, which at least is associated with statistics. It will no longer be that of the team Vicente Moreno the second best first round ever after the loss to The palms, but the parakeets do aspire to close it with 45 points. And that translates into a clairvoyant fact: all the leaders who have arrived with a similar number have ended up amounting to First.

Apart from Elche in the 2012-13 campaign, which achieved 49 points, there are three other teams that would surpass Espanyol despite beating Castellón and adding 45 points. These are Levante from 2016-17, Betis from 2010-11 and Atlético de Madrid from the 2001-02 season. All of them ascended directly, without palliative, maintaining a rate of points that earned them in the final section to get promotion and finishing the first lap with 46.

In the preseason, the message from Vicente Moreno and the players was very clear. “You have to score as many points as possible in the first round”they commented at repeated press conferences. It is the trend of LaLiga SmartBank, in which last year, without going any further, the Sports he obtained the record of points in the second round but ended up descending. With the classification more or less clarified and the cards on the table, the Blue and White team does not want to lower the level to avoid difficulties in the last days.

At stake there are other data to close the first part of the season. Espanyol must be confirmed as the best local (it is tied with 25 points with Rayo), the top scorer (it is with 30 goals) and the least thrashed (it accumulates ten, one more than Mallorca). A meeting that will serve to pass balance six months after relegation to Second.