Who was going to tell Manolo González that five days for the end of the championship, six for the RCD Espanyolhis team was going to have real chances of fighting for European squares. “Europe? In Nou Srdenya,” the Lucense recently joked when asked about that option.
Flying high in 2025
But the reality is that it is there. The parakeets, flying high in 2025 (six wins, six draws and two losses), would stay only two points from the eighth square, now occupied by Healthin case of being victorious of his visit to ceramics, postponed in his day due to the weather alert.
“If in January they tell us that missing five days we are where we are, all that with a bit of understanding would have signed it,” he reflected yesterday Manoloaware that win hoy It will not be a simple task. Despite its recent streak (a triumph in the last four days), this Villarreal It is a team built to play the Champions League. This is witnessed by the table (recover Champions Plaza if adds to three) and, above all, the preparation of its workforce, with soccer players such as AyOze Pérez, Álex Baena or the longing for Gerard Moreno.
Probable alignments of Villarreal-Espanyol
These last two will be lost, yes, a match that in the first round decided the Tenerife, author of a double in RCDE Stadium (1-2). Marcelino García Toral Nor can he count on Raúl Albiol e Alilya A this akih herelong -term injured and sanctioned with three games for breaking the VAR monitor after the last tie with the Real Sociedad (2-2), in which they annulled up to three goals to the 'Groguets'.
Sergi gome, ok
On the part of Perica, the nursing occupies the usual José Grager y Brian Olivánonce the captain has been recovered Serge of the back problems that made him miss the visit to Mestalla, resulted in 1-1. A draw that broke the streak of consecutive triumphs of the Espanyol (0-4 in Vallecas, 0-2 in Vigo and 1-0 against Getafe) and the longest period without fitting Joan Garcia In First Division (382 minutes).
That the undefeated condition, from the controversial KO in Mallorca (2-1), of a much less pressured paragraph, at the qualifying level, of what was on March 3, date for which this meeting was initially planned. So only three points separated the Espanyol of the red zone, delimited by a Valencia with which he now ties to 39 points.
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The turns that life gives now only three separate those from Manolo of theorists 42 of salvation. And Europe, in addition to the Nou Sortenya, appears on the horizon.
