Spanish: first ‘match ball’

On Wednesday, in the Ángel Rodríguez room of the RCDE Stadium during the presentation of the book that collects the 121 years of history Espanyol, it was a day of emotions and news. In the middle of the debut of Mao Ye as the new CEO of the club, already without José María Durán, Diego Lopez and Vicente Moreno they represented the first team. They didn’t give too much information. neither the state of the goal nor whether he will play on Monday. The staff, in their bunker in Sant Adrià, has lived oblivious to the institutional changes of the entity. In the medium term it should not affect them, at least at the end of a campaign with the goal marked by the club one step away from being sealed.

after adding seven out of nine points During March, Moreno’s team hopes to achieve that victory as soon as possible that officially certifies salvation. The first match ball they will have it this Monday (21:00) in Anoeta, where the Blue and Whites will meet a Real Sociedad that they already beat in the first round (1-0) and that precisely marks the sixth place, which gives the right to play the Europa League. A parakeet victory would mean remaining nine points behind the txuri-urdin with 24 more to play. Nothing is impossible after the miracle of Joan Francesc Rubi’s team in the 2017-18 campaign.

Apart from certifying salvation, Espanyol is pursuing, as the coach commented in his last press conferences, improve your numbers away from home. They don’t win from December 31, more than three months ago; in fact, it is the only victory of the course for the Blue and Whites. The parakeet team will try to avoid in the remainder of the season the label of the worst team away from home than the year of relegation, where the Blue and Whites managed to add 13 points (one more than at home). The technician has already recovered the internationals. If Keidi Bare, Leandro Cabrera and Joan García rejoined this Thursday, is expected to Yangel Herrera this Friday.

The salvation, improve away from home and, suddenly, begin to weave that future that first it must be resolved again from the institutional part of the club, specifically from the side of the president, who will decide the future of the sports director, Francisco Rufete. Its continuity or its departure will determine also some decisions with squad players, especially with all those who end contract or whose assignments expire. A planning for the next season that, for the moment, the Valencian continues to carry out, on the way to achieving, after the fiasco of his first year, the second consecutive objective: promotion or a salvation that marked the entity.