Villarreal, faced with the challenge of overcoming the curse of Gerard’s return

In the summer of 2018, Villarreal CF decided to bring Gerard Moreno back paying a transfer of 20 million to Espanyol. The Catalan was Submarino’s great bet to grow and without a doubt, Moreno’s decision was correct in play, performance and goals. But curiously, the performance of Gerard and Villarreal himself against Espanyol has not been positive since his return.

Since Gerard stopped being a parakeet, andThe striker has not seen the door against his former team and he has played little, especially in Ceramics. In this period, Villarreal has played seven official matches, five in the League and two in the Copa del Rey, in which the yellows they only add one win, three draws and three losses.

A series that is worse in local games, since with three league games and one Copa del Rey, there was one defeat and three draws. With this, since Gerard’s return, Villarreal only won in Barcelona in the 19-20 season, a victory by zero to one, with Gerard in the field, but without seeing the door.

And going back to the striker’s performance against his former team, it stands out that of the three home games in this period He has only played in one of them, to which the loss in this meeting will also be added. In the end, he has missed three games of the last four. A series of absences due to injury, to which is added that the striker has not managed to score against Espanyol in any of these games, nor in the previous era.