Vicente Moreno's Espanyol pulls down the middle street

Are up ten footballers available to be divided between two and five places in the lineup. Fierce competition. What any template needs with a modicum of ambition. The arrival of Manu Morlanes and Yangel Herrera consolidate the idea of ​​a Espanyol full of midfielders, of players accustomed to acting on the inside –although some, lately, have started from the band for the needs of the script– and who combine solidity and touch. A blessed problem for Vicente Moreno, who since the visit of the Atlético de Madrid at RCDE Stadium, this Sunday, you can start tweaking your script.

Although it is not a mere question of systems, the 4-4-2 drawing that offered such good fruits in the second round of last season, to certify the promotion, and which encourages a more direct than combinative game – despite even possession – in the return to First Division, can give way to the original 4-2-3-1 With which the Valencian coach began his career at the head of Espanyol just a year ago, then in the Second Division.

It is one of the solutions for accommodate a more positional midfielder, like Yangel –still in the process of recovering from a tibia injury, so Keidi Bare or David López are running as alternatives–, another that distributes the game from behind and a hitch. Morlanes and Sergi darder They seem like the best suited to share these creative tasks. As wild cards, in a scenario of five changes per game, they are placed Fran Merida and a youth squad that is future, Gregorio Gracia 'Gori¡.

But also Javi puado and Nico MelamedBorn midfielders, although in today's Espanyol they act closer to the touchline, they can move ahead of Darder or Morlanes, one of the two, since they have a greater sense of goal. And, of course, he is more than qualified to act behind the tip a Oscar Melendo still unpublished in this League but a key piece in said demarcation last year.

The fit of so much talent, of the touch footballers who today dominate the squad either in a 4-2-3-1 or in variants such as a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-3-3, would go to the detriment of another fundamental piece in a Espanyol that has started without a goal in its return to Primera. A 'nine' would fall to the bench. Just when the club has signed Loren Moron to complement Raúl de Tomás and Nany dimata.

Is it perhaps an inconvenience? No, if Vicente Moreno poses it as what it is: the opportunity to seamlessly handle numerous registrations, to combine throughout the championship and even within the different phases of the same match. The one to pull down the middle street is, surely, one of the most attractive.