Villarreal falls victim of the 'Abelardo effect'

Espanyol cuts a nine-day streak without winning thanks to goals from David Lpez and Ral de Toms. The yellows, who cut penalty distances, failed to take advantage of their numerical superiority for the last half hour

The Villarreal he fell victim of the 'Abelardo effect', which has turned the dynamics of Spanish in a seen and not seen. At the moment, with his triumph at the Estadio de la Cermica (1-2), he has ended a nine-day streak without winning in a match that was very expensive with goals from David Lpez and Ral de Toms, that premiered in the league, and that was complicated after the penalty and expulsion of Javi Lpez. With numerical superiority, the yellow team enclosed his rival but his lack of success and the sticks deprived him of the tie, confirming that when the opponent seems more affordable the more it costs the Calleja team to take out the matches.

I was not too surprised that Espanyol went ahead just as the game had started. In a semi-dry stadium where nearly three thousand parakeet fans displaced to Vila-real were almost heard, the team of Abelard I came out much more plugged in. In just a couple of minutes he had already tried his luck Ral de Toms in a shot that went high and at five he was David Lopez who punishes the apata of the yellows in a corner kick. Naldo finished off in the first suit and came out a perfect assistance for the incorporation of David Lpez in the second. Anguissa, who was the one who marked him, said goodbye and Catalan nodded at pleasure.

Villarreal had entered the game very cold and with an atypical eleven conditioned by the loss of the injured Gerard and the absence of an Ekambi that already has the five senses at the Olympique de Lyon. Calleja had no choice but to place Bacca pointed, in addition to making a hole for Casserole at eleven to the detriment of Moi Gmez. But the team did not finish carbureting, even when the drawing varied to recover its esteemed rhombus with Cazorla in the upper vortex behind Bacca and Chukwueze.

Neither way or other does Villarreal find his game despite the fact that the passing of the minutes caused him to take the pie off and decanting the balance of possession. At rest he leaves without firing between the three sticks. The closest one was to do it was Trigueros, who was slightly high a shot in the area after a good action rehearsed in a corner kick. Chukwueze did not break and Cazorla could not find the gaps in a very serious Espanyol in defense and that could have opened a gap in the scoreboard having considered the sanctionable VAR an action of Pau in which I deflected with a hand a shot at the door of Ral de Toms.

On the other hand, the video arbitration was seen, ratifying the referee's decision, in a ball that hit the elbow of Javi Lopez, who had thrown himself to cover a shot and raised his arm over his shoulder. Le cost, in addition, the second yellow to the center. Cazorla's goal from eleven meters allowed Villarreal to cut distances because Espanyol had extended his rent as soon as he started the second half. David Lpez took advantage of Pau's mistake in the exit of the ball to enable Calleri, who put a good ball in the area so that Ral de Toms, head, will premiere with Espanyol in league after having done so already in the Copa del Rey.

Abelardo's team had yielded the initiative to the people of Castellón and the expulsion of Ddac only promoted the yellow domain, also favored by the tactical movements of Calleja. Iborra it was placed above and Villarreal began to hang balls to the area trying to take advantage of the centimeters of the Valencian. Thus, in a couple of rejections, the tie was close, especially in a shot by Cazorla that crashed into the post with Diego Lpez already sold. The goalkeeper also aligned himself with the crossbar deflecting with the fingertips a dangerous launch of lack of Ontiveros, the revulsive one in the last minutes but insufficient to avoid that the Espanyol was deluded with the salvation.