The Spanish closes this Friday the year 2021, that of his return to LaLiga Santander, with an appointment with the Valencia, in Mestalla, in which he will try what he has not achieved so far: achieve a home win this season.
For this, those of Vicente Moreno must, to begin with, take care of their goal. Because if those of José Bordalás are capable of open the scoreboard, which they have done seven times in this league, Espanyol will have all to lose.
And it is that in the seven times in which the Blue and Whites started a league game this season under on the scoreboard only one managed to avoid defeat. The six remaining finished losing the match.
The exception it happened in the Martinez Valero. In the match of the tenth day, Lucas Boyé put Elche ahead in the 23rd minute of the game, making it 1-0. But Moreno’s men managed to turn the score around and get 1-2, despite the fact that a last local goal shattered their hopes of victory, although they took a point.
That was a mirage, because in the other six matches that Espanyol he started losing a game he always ended up defeated. Happened in Mallorca (1-0 on matchday 3), in the Pizjuán (2-0 at 7), at Getafe (2-1 at 12), at Camp Nou (1-0 at 14), at Vallecas (1-0 at 16) and at Sweep (3-1 at 18).
If Valencia makes it 1-0 on the scoreboard, Espanyol will have to work hard to reverse the result and avoid defeat. Also because the Ché have won four of the seven games they have started, winning, drawing one and losing only two. Y even if they start losing, which has happened nine times, his fighting spirit ‘made in Bordalás’ It has led them to come back three games to victory, to draw four and lose only two.
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