The parakeet team is three points away from salvation. Up to six teams fight to avoid the two relegation spots that remain to be distributed.
dramatic ending. The Spanish, who will receive Barça this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. in Cornellàis third from last with 31 points and has one of the toughest schedules of any team fighting for permanence.
However, there is always a reason for hope and, in this case, it has a name and surname: Luis Garcia Fernandez. The coach, who played for the Blue and Whites for six seasons and came to the RCDE Stadium bench at the beginning of April, has a vast baggage of miraculous salvationslike the one parakeets need this season.
RCD Majorca, 2004/05
During his only campaign wearing the vermilion shirt, the Asturian footballer had to deal with an extreme situation.
The Balearic team fell like Bottom line on matchday 6 and did not leave the relegation posts again until the 37. In between, it came to be 10 points behind Racing -which marked the permanence- on day 31.
those of Hector Cuper they signed four wins and two draws in the last six rounds of the championship and took advantage of the poor results of the I raised in that period of time -5 losses and two draws-. However, if the granotas had won at Villarreal on the last day (4-1), they would have been saved.
With 39 pointsMallorca ended up staying in First division and sent the men from Orriols down, who accompanied Numancia and Albacete on the way back to Segunda.
RCD Espanyol, 2008/09
In the club where he is an idol, there was also room for the epic. It was his fourth campaign defending the blue and white colors and, despite the fact that the team became the leader after the second day, it would end up being a hell. Luis García played 36 games in that League.
a streak of four defeats and a draw temporarily sent Espanyol down in the day 14. The shortage of victories extended for fourteen dates and, curiously, it broke at the Camp Nou, where they beat Pep Guardiola’s Barça with a brace from Iván de la Peña, which also ended 27 years of the parakeets without winning in the field of their eternal rival.
In any case, that victory did not spur the team too much, which continued in free fall until it was bottom and was eight points behind Real Betis on matchday 28. Since then, five wins and one draw In the following six dates, they sentenced a salvation that, for many weeks, seemed like an impossible mission.
Real Betis, Numancia and Recreational Huelva they ended up losing the category that year.
Real Zaragoza, 2011/12
It was his first team after leaving Cornellà, but he was not going to shake off the weight of suffering another agonizing season.
The hand team did not enter the descent until the fourteenth daywhen he was third from last and had 11 points. It was going to get worse. The victories came very occasionally and the permanence was further away every day. so much that On the twenty-fifth date, Zaragoza was twelve away from salvation.
a streak of three straight wins at the end of March, it allowed the team to get closer to the target, but it still had much more to row. With nine points to be disputed, the blanquillo team was six to maintain the category, but three other wins in a row They allowed the miracle to work for the hands.
that course, Villarreal, Sporting Gijon and Santander Racingthey headed for the silver category.
Who has Espanyol won the particular confrontation?
In the event of a tie on points at the end of the season, they will be the direct matches who decide which team ends up ahead in the standings. This is how parakeets have the goalaverage particularly against its direct rivals:
- Getafe: WON, 1-2 at the Coliseum and 1-0 at Cornellà.
- Valencia: they still have to play the game of the second round. At the RCDE Stadium, 2-2.
- Valladolid: TIE, 2-1 in Pucela and 1-0 in Barcelona.
- Cádiz: TIE, 2-2 at Nuevo Mirandilla and 0-0 at Cornellà.
- Almería: they still have to play the second round match. At the Power Horse Stadium, local victory by 3-1.
If there is also equality in the particular confrontation, it would be necessary to resort to the general goal difference:
- 14. Almeria (-16)
- 15. Cadiz (-23)
- 16. Valladolid (-27)
- 17. Valencia (-4)
- 18. Getafe (-8)
- 19. Spanish (-16)
RCD Espanyol next matches
The parakeet team will have to face the Catalan derby at home this weekend and, afterwards, they will have another four days to conclude the national championship.
- Rayo Vallecano vs. RCD Espanyol (21/05)
- RCD Espanyol vs. Atletico Madrid (05/24)
- Valencia CF vs. RCD Espanyol (28/05)
- RCD Espanyol vs. UD Almeria (06/04)