The endless odyssey of Espanyol

Four minutes and five seconds. Is the time it took Spanish in losing. More than him Celtic cheat. Two minutes and 13 seconds of the first half took Saints Mina to show the shame of parrots at home, and one minute and 52 seconds after the restart was enough for Iago Aspas to match the faces of the visiting players with their jerseys. Red. Because the defeat was final. The goal of Loren from the center of the field, already in the addition, so precious, brutal, as useless.

A chilling streak. Even the worst place in LaLiga, a Celta who since 2016 has not imposed himself on parrots, strutted before the disturbing and repetitive version of Espanyol at home, even worse. Always swimming against the current, with unforced losses, without output or consistent pressure, very soft, with a wasted core, a shadow of itself. This time the excuse was not even used that, despite everything, he was able to score if he gets to enter this or that occasion – in this case, that of Puado on the edge of the break – that if they reacted – as has happened lately, with the entry of Morlanes-. Defeated, once again. And there have already been nine outings in this League, 18 since the last victory in First far from RCDE Stadium.

The odyssey. Usually argue Vicente Moreno, every time they remind him of the very poor balance at home – that of Espanyol this season and his own in the First Division – that in reality what counts is the balance – thanks, certainly, to the enormous performance in Weather in Cornellà-, and above all that with a couple of good starts Espanyol would go from being one of the worst to being in the bandwagon of the majority. Certain. But the thing is that those victories – or that one, in the singular – never come, the parakeets only have one away game to close the first round (in Mestalla) and the coach begins to look Penelope, weaving and unweaving while waiting tirelessly for Ulises. Far away Ithaca.

Embarba, wild card of the public. Almost by popular acclaim, 17 days later, he left Embarba from the bench. His 1,367 minutes without a single goal – with two assists, yes, in front of Athletic Y Real Madrid– they urged to give the opportunity to Miguelón on the side – in his first league title since February 14 – to advance to another that had been reducing water behind: Aleix Vidal. But it didn’t work out either. Neither the team held better by the right hand nor was it more sharp than with the former of the Lightning. And Aleix ended up in his previous demarcation and finally replaced by the squad Ruben Sanchez. The same of Embarba can be applied, in this case without popular acclaim, with the substitution of Keidi Bare. It did not serve to pamper the ball more and in return muscle was lost.

Nightmare Before Christmas. We turn to the topic because Espanyol, which could have seen the light in a place as propitious for it as Vigo, suffered one of its biggest blackouts of the season. And because, even by dint of stumbling at home, one does not shut up, since the comparison with performance at home exacerbates the pain. The blue and white team will now rest for a few days, they will take air during the Christmas, and will return immediately to prepare the stake of New Years Eve against Valencia, in Mestalla, and the sixteenths of the Copa del Rey Front of Ponferradina, in The Toralín. Two more exits. Take a breath. Enjoy the Parties. And look at the ranking: 23 points. Even Ulysses ends up returning to Ithaca.