MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Villarreal seeks to forget the win at Camp Nou against Almería (6:30 p.m.) with a victory that they can dedicate to José Manuel Llaneza, in an eleventh day of LaLiga Santander in which Osasuna aspires to enter European positions at Girona (6:30 p.m. hours) and in which bottom side Elche is eager for its first victory of the season against RCD Espanyol, also in difficulty (2:00 pm).
At the Ciutat de València, Unai Emery’s men will try to pay tribute to the late vice president of the yellow club, one of the architects of the team’s success and who has not been able to overcome leukaemia. The same day of his death, the people from Castellón succumbed to FC Barcelona (3-0) and neutralized the weekend’s win against Osasuna (2-0).
In the domestic competition, they have only won one of their last six games, which has weighed them down to ninth place (15), three points behind the continental zone. Now, they face their new duel with the safe losses of Gerard Moreno and Juan Foyth and pending the evolution of Giovani Lo Celso, Étienne Capoue, Francis Coquelin and Alfonso Pedraza.
Opposite, Almería, thirteenth with ten units, arrives reinforced by their victory against Girona (3-2), a game in which, however, they did not tie their comfortable 3-0 in the first half and had to suffer to avoid the Catalan comeback
Their three victories of the season have come at the Power Horse Stadium, so Rubi’s men will now seek the first away from home in a clash in which they will not be able to count on Juanjo Nieto, Marko Milovanovic, Iván Martos, Alex Centelles or Carlos Rojas All due to injury.
For his part, Osasuna visits Montilivi in search of his second win in a row to try to rise to European positions. After beating Espanyol (1-0), a result with which they put an end to a series of four dates without winning -three defeats and a draw-, Jagoba Arrasate’s men have moved closer to sixth place, two points behind their 16.
The ‘gironins’ (8), on the other hand, mark the relegation positions one point from salvation, all after adding only one of the 15 units at stake in recent days.
David García, due to an accumulation of cards, will miss the appointment for the Navarrese, as will the injured Kike Saverio, and Reinier Jesus, Ibrahima Kébé and Borja García will not be available for Míchel, who has doubts about the Juanpe Ramírez headdress.
Lastly, at the RCDE Stadium, Espanyol needs to forget their latest stumble so as not to be involved in problems, in which Elche, bottom of the category after not having won a game yet, is already mired.
The blue and white team (9) manages only one point over the burning zone after ending a streak of three days adding to losing during the week with Osasuna, and hopes to get some air in a date in which they will have the absences of Adrià Pedrosa and Ruben Sanchez.
The team from Elche, now commanded by Jorge Almirón and who will not be able to count on Jony Álamo and Federico Fernández, was beaten on Wednesday by Real Madrid (0-3) and is still unable to win this season, in which it has only rescued three units.
–SUNDAY PROGRAM IN LALIGA SANTANDER.
RCD Espanyol – Elche CF. Munuera Montero (C. Andaluz) 14.00.
Real Betis – Atletico Madrid. Gil Manzano (C.Extremeño) 16.15.
Girona FC – CA Osasuna. Polished Santana (C.The Palms)
Villarreal CF – UD Almeria. From Burgos Bengoetxea (C.Basque) 18.30.
FC Barcelona-Athletic Club. Martínez Munuera (C.Valenciano) 21.00.