“The players give level because they have it, not thanks to someone”

Fuenlabrada is the next high-speed train station that Espanyol has become, having only lost one game in the 11 games played and is the outstanding leader in the category. Vicente Moreno warns, guru in his almost 100 days since he started working with the group at the foot of the field, who will be a rival “very physical” but with “more virtues“In fact, he has not lost his fiefdom since the pandemic began.

“Last year he fought to go to the playoff in the last second. He keeps the line on the game, and the squad and the coach. We have the obligation to win and we will go for it. But it is the trend of this category, the difficulty away from home, “said the Valencian, who acknowledges that the team still has” a lot of room for improvement. “

Regarding that forceful performance of his players, Moreno took away credit, much less acknowledged having a magic wand to transform Espanyol. “If the players give a level it is because they have it. It is not thanks to anyone. The coaches are performance provocateurs. We look for the formula for it. We have great players and they show it”, he argued, while insisting that “I value the mental issue, we have to look forward even though when I arrived there was negativity after everything that happened.”

To continue in this dynamic, Espanyol will have several absences. Apart from those of Javi Puado and Adrià Pedrosa, who are with the Under-21s, the coach confirmed that neither Keidi Bare nor Álvaro Vadillo will be in Madrid, except for “surprise”, and that “one more player can join. problems, there are opportunities for others “, he valued. One of those who has participated the least is Monito Vargas, to whom Moreno dedicated some comforting words.

“He is not the one that has participated the most, but he has played, he had his moments. I am also convinced that I will take advantage of that possibility because I see him training, he has a predisposition, a lot of desire and I am sure that he will help us. You have to make decisions and there are some who play something more than Vargas. But it has given us and it will surely help us and its quality will appear, which it has, “explained the technician.