Fernando
Pacheco regains its best level. The goalkeeper has assumed greater prominence in recent days and has contributed with decisive stops to the defensive growth of the team. In the first six duels played, the Alaves conceded eight goals. In the last two, only one.
The archer flies back into Mendizorrotza and, before him Barcelona, his interventions were vital to retain a point earned through extreme sacrifice. For the benefit of albiazul, the Badajoz, once again ‘Santo’, is once again Saint
Fernando.
In a team where Pablo
Machin performs continuous rotations, Pacheco He is the only one who has played every minute, a total of 720, in these first eight days. In them, he has collected the ball from the bottom of his tights eight times, which gives an average of 1,125 points per stake.
“Proud”
With seven stops, the one from Badajoz was vital to save a point against the squad of Koeman. Up to 23 shots attempted the Barça in Mendizorrotza, where he took full control of the duel at the start of the second half and turned it into a monologue since, in the 62nd minute, he was sent off Jot
Peleteiro for double yellow.
(+) See here the exceptional performance of Pacheco:
The culé team saw how Hernandez
Hernandez he annulled two targets for offside and, in addition, how Leo
Messi and all his artillery ran into Fernando
Pacheco. The goal made two stops of great merit to shots of the Argentine star, stopped the shameless momentum of Ansu
Fati and he stood out before two very tough auctions of Dest Y Pjanic. In addition, he also saw how Lejeune, in a foul thrown by the 10 blaugrana, and Battaglia, before a head of Pique, they saved two goals under the sticks when he was already beaten. That is called teamwork.
Pacheco, “proud and happy” for his performance against Barcelona
At the end of the torture into which the relentless siege of the Koeman, Pacheco he felt very satisfied with “a point that tastes of glory”, won in a game “very hard-worked and suffered.” “The team has left its soul and the draw does justice to everything we have put into the field,” he expressed in a heartfelt praise for the great collective effort Babazorro.
Questioned by his decisive saves, he was “proud and happy”. “I have been able to contribute my grain of sand and we must highlight the work of all, which has been incredible,” he stressed. He recalled the many troubles his team went through by staying with ten in the 62nd minute, when the Barcelona clearly governed the stake. “With the expulsion it put everything very uphill, but the team pulled with heart and claw,” he said.
The goalkeeper, like the rest of his teammates and Pablo
Machin, misses the push of the empty stands due to the pandemic. Until the fateful start of confinement in March, Mendizorrotza It was one of the fields with the best atmosphere in First
Division. Last Friday, in the act of raising the gigantic flag that flies in the stadium with the new Alava coat of arms, he expressed his “confidence” in achieving permanence and invited the entire Albiazul parish to “continue enjoying the Alaves in First”.
Pothole overcome
Precisely the damn pandemic affected in a very important way their performance in the return to competition in the final stretch of last year. A glaring mistake before him Spanish, with expulsion included when touching the ball with his hand outside the area, meant the beginning of the serious crisis of his team.
After missing the next match against the Real
Society, Asier
Garitano He preferred to leave him on the bench and trust Robert
Jimenez to visit the Celtic. Then he started in the defeats against Osasuna (0-1) and Athletic
from
Madrid to miss the last five days of the championship due to a micro-tear in the pelvis area.
Already in this course, its beginning was again hesitant but, with the passage of the days, it has been settling until it is again Saint
Fernando in front of Barcelona. Thus recover the Alaves to one of its fundamental pillars in the last six years.
At 28 years old and already in full sporting maturity, the goalkeeper has a contract until June 2023. He is part of the group with the longest link in the squad and is a safe bet for Sergio
Fernandez. Shape next to Manu Y The guard the trio of survivors in the current Alaves of the team that won the promotion to First in the 15-16 campaign. In the Albiazul entity he has found the ideal environment to develop his best football. Since arriving from the Real
Madrid in the summer of 2015 signed by the previous sports director, Javier
ZubillagaHe has been the undisputed starter and not of the heavyweights in the locker room.