There is no way (0-0) | Football

The Hercules improves past performances in Moreno's debut on the bench, but he cannot defeat the Llagostera and wastes a new chance to approach permanence. Benja has the only opportunities of the Alicante team, who was fired with applause despite his irregular play.

There is such a bad thing in Rico Pérez that any small symptom of improvement seems like a conquest. Do not lose or leave the goal to zero with burning nails to those who grab the team and their hobby to believe in the comeback, but just look at the classification to return to depression. There is no way for Hercules to win, or changing coach, style or players.

The courage and pride are fine, but they will not be enough to get the team out of the mud that he alone has gotten into this season. Before the Llagostera He improved his attitude and was, at least, a compact and supportive block, but he did very little to win the match. A shot at the post, another clear opportunity for Benja to be thwarted by the goalkeeper and a final mini siege, with a possible penalty not indicated, was all the offensive ammunition of a team from which, for the quality of its players, more is always expected.

Antonio Moreno's first Hercules had a cold start. It did not help the team the presence of several players outside their natural habitat, such as Vergos, parked in a band, or Yeray, located in the middle point, far from the elaboration and the auction. De Lerma moved the team's threads in the spinal cord, contributing order and criteria while the physicist endured, but at times it seemed to get in the way with Benito, the other engine.

Yeray barely made contact with the ball and his game was reduced to trying to hunt some left of Benja. The Hercules had an impeccable attitude, but little offensive flight beyond Raul's individual adventures.

The Alicante starred with Vergos the best move of the first act, but his step back did not find anyone to push the ball into the net. The Llagostera, very withdrawn, barely gave news in attack beyond a volley by Sergio Cortés blocked by Falcón, already in the twilight of a first time in which he missed some more passion on the part of the Hercules.

Moreno's team entered with good foot after the break. He tilted the field and looked for the bands, but all the depth that Raul gave him on the right bank he lost on the left with Alfaro, who had a thick afternoon. Benja had the best chance of the game after a header that crashed into the post. The action sparked Llagostera, who stretched and also tried his luck with a shot from Dieste that cleared Falcon.

Moreno sacrificed Benito in the midfield to give Moha entrance and place Vergos at the half-point, but the change did not bear the expected fruit and the Hercules began to lose control of the game, being exposed to the opponents' backlash. The coach gave entry to Pedro Torres for a tired De Lerma and the Hercules regained control. With Jona, in the last minutes, the Alicante team put all the meat on the grill in search of a goal that was about to arrive after a great assistance from Malaga to Benja, but the Catalan telegraphed his cross shot and Marcos could avoid both with a great stop.

The Hercules played Russian roulette the last minutes and could lose if the referee had not annulled a goal to Maynau for offside or if Kuku had not been clumsy in a couple of badly resolved cons. Although also winning, already in the discount, if the referee, in full local siege, had a penalty with a hand within the area of ​​a Catalan defender.

At least, Hercules finished the game installed in the rival area and without a drop of energy in his tank. Something has improved the thing, as the public understood, that he dismissed the team with applause for the first time in months, but it is still insufficient to approach permanence.