After saving Sporting and Alavés, the coach begins this Saturday the problem of rescuing Espanyol in the derby in opposition to Barcelona
Valverde and Abelardo greet one another at the RCDE Stadium.
Soccer is a twisted sport.
Abelardo Fernández, who aspires to tear Espanyol out of the classification gap, performed 257 video games with Barcelona, staff in opposition to which debuted this Saturday in the blue and white bench in the Barcelona derby. Will probably be at the Cornellà-El Prat stadium, now RCDE Stadium, and in entrance of Ernesto Valverde. This, after a fleeting step as a Barça participant, reached 87 video games performed with Espanyol, whom he additionally led in 99 video games. Gate 89 of the Cornellanense stadium bears his identify. It additionally has some guasa that the coach who took Espanyol by the hand to Second in his final descent of 1993 – irrespective of how a lot Juanjo Díaz concluded the process – was José Manuel Díaz Novoa, gijonés like Abelardo. Former Sporting coach, like Abelardo.
The roads are intertwined with out treatment earlier than the dispute of a match between the first and the final categorised (29 factors of distinction after the dispute of the first 18 matches). Espanyol, each time he confronted a number one Barcelona from the final place in the desk, by no means misplaced (the 1-2 triumph at the Camp Nou below the glare of the shaved head of De la Peña 2009, and a draw at two at house in 1963). The parakeet staff dodged the fall to Second each occasions.
All these tales, absolutely, carelessly deliver the playful entrepreneur proprietor of Espanyol, Chen Yansheng, busy preserving his funding in the blue and white membership 20 days after the finish of the championship. Ready to go to the winter market and take benefit of the enhance in your wage restrict by 12 million euros As soon as its capital enhance is accomplished and due to what has been collected up to now in the Europa League, hopes are targeted on the determine of a survival specialist. Abelardo, the third blue and white coach this course after the poor experiences with David Gallego and Pablo Machín, already averted in his day the descents of Sporting and Alavés in equally dramatic conditions.
4-4-2 as an important idea
Abelardo's components doesn't have too many secrets and techniques. He educated his staff each on New Yr's Eve and New Yr. He has endeavored to get better the emotional side of the costumes, given the significance he attaches to the so-called “depth” in his encounters. He has made his gamers imagine that there isn’t a higher participant than the one who’s already half of the staff, with out publicly claiming any signing (Machín arrived at Espanyol begging for the hiring of a battering ram to seek out the misplaced targets with the sale of Borja Iglesias). Abelardo has erased the tactical pirouettes of his predecessors from the board. Lifetime 4-4-2 as an idea. “Soccer is one of the few sports activities in which you’ll be able to play horrible and win,” he stated on the eve with out batting the Asturian coach.
«When you may have 10 factors out of 54, the participant loses confidence in his qualities. Cease daring to do issues. That’s the reason we have now to start out from scratch, begin a brand new League, ”he insisted. Though the day to start out that new tomorrow doesn’t appear the best suited. Espanyol haven’t received a single house sport this season, with a steadiness of two attracts and seven losses. No person has conceded as many targets in their very own stadium as Espanyol (20 in opposition to). Just one staff has scored much less at house than Espanyol (seven). That is Celta de Vigo (six), additionally in relegation locations. Abelardo, by the approach, has misplaced his six duels in opposition to Barcelona since he’s a coach.
Valverde, who hopes to shut the first spherical as chief of the championship, has different considerations. Assigned Aleñá al Betis – «has exercised a clause by which he may go away; however I didn't know it will be so quickly », complained the technician-, absent Arthur as a result of of a pubalgia that doesn’t remit, and with Arturo Vidal in full authorized dispute along with his membership whereas trying sideways at Italy, he additionally has to have a look at the aim . Ter Stegen continues with the restoration course of of his proper knee tendinopathy, so it is going to be low in each the derby and the Spanish Tremendous Cup. In response to the Barca coach, the German goalkeeper must be accessible as soon as the event to be held subsequent week in Saudi Arabia ends. The Brazilian aim Neto, who already performed in the continental victory at Giuseppe Meazza, will play his first minutes on this League.
And Valverde, who Abelardo hugged yesterday on Cornellà's garden after posing with interchangeable shirts, may solely admit the proof to a previous he doesn’t deny: «After all I would like Espanyol to proceed in First».
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