With the promotion already in your pocket since last Saturday, Espanyol returns this Friday to the RCDE Stadium, its impregnable fortress, to be measured at Cartagena (21 hours).
Vicente Moreno's team has tied a large part of the ticket to return to First at home, since he adds more than half of the points of the global of his locker, 47 of the 78 totals he now has (with three days still ahead), being by far the best venue in the category.
Some brutal numbers in the RCDE Stadium, a mattress where it has been cemented the ascent. And is that Espanyol has only lost two of the 19 games played at home, tying another two and winning up to 15 of the duels, 47 points. The parakeets only bent the knee in Cornellà-El Prat against Girona (1-2 on November 20) and Rayo Vallecano (2-3 on January 31), in the rest of the stakes in Barcelona, they always scored points.
To round off the brutal numbers that Espanyol exhibits at the RCDE Stadium, say whate is the highest scoring team Unlike the entire category at home, with 40 goals in favor, far from second in the ranking, an Almería with 31.
Besides, also it is the set that least fits at home, with only 9 goals conceded in the goal of Diego López in fiefdom parakeet.
Champion numbers, in general, but above all, when he has played at home, which has catapulted him to the leadership and to achieve promotion four days in advance.