Espanyol, with 10, achieves a gold and diamond point against Atlético

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  • Darder, Espanyol’s best player, put his team ahead, before the local tie, in a match in which the Blue and Whites played with one less from the 28th minute due to Cabrera being sent off.

There is a motto that always applies Athletic. It is the “match by match”; the fight, the perseverance, the fight for each point as if their lives depended on it; physical soccer, strength, gaining meters as if it were a rugby match. But if there was a team in the Metropolitano that formalized the theory, it was the Spanishwith a touch of heroism, to add more than just a point, “a great strike & rdquor ;, as he defined it Sergio Dauderthe parakeet footballer who put the blue and white team on his back to achieve a draw fought hard and with perseverance.

As if it were a troubled river, before a Athletic that does not raise its head, that generates debate in the stands, with its most radical fans refusing to enter the stadium until the second part, the Spanish I had to catch fish, show that they were capable of being in the league table much higher than the position they now occupy, so as not to suffer and not be aware every day of what the other teams are doing that are trying to get out of that well that leads to the Second Division.

great defense

The Spanish he needed to tell himself that they were a consistent block in defense, that they did not fail behind, that they knew how to protect their Parisian goalkeeper, a Lecomte which was perfect, to close any debate that spoke of fragility in the blue and white goal. He made worthwhile saves, knew how to organize his defense and, above all, avoided defeat when Atlético attacked the most, after Joao joined the party to give greater character to the group of Diego Simeon.

Things got very bad for Espanyol when Cabrera he was sent off after 28 minutes. Terrible, cruel, as if the field had become a torture cell. This is how the match was approached Diego Martinez when he lost his center back by knocking down bruise, being the last blue and white defender. Half an hour of the game had not even been completed. A lot of time to avoid defeat against a Metropolitan, criticism aside, delivered to his team. 50,000 people screaming against Espanyol.

to change tactics

Diego Martinez had to change tactics, nothing that had happened before -without a single shot from Atlético- counted. A resistance party began, not to hand over a meter to the enemy, to take advantage of the local motto of “game by game & rdquor; to leave the Metropolitan dressed and not naked even if it was with a “point that tasted of victory & rdquor ;, as defined by the blue and white technician.

Espanyol moved the bench. I enter Sergio Gomez by Bare and the resistance began. No goals until the break. First act finished without major problems. But Atlético, who had to change their attacking partner (Griezmann Y bruise), was still in full offensive, with Espanyol locked up in their area as if it were a trench.

And in that appeared Darder, backlash, to get oil out of the well, to surprise Atlético on the only occasion of danger. Espanyol goal (m. 62). Simeone he didn’t believe it. It was like a parakeet miracle, in his best game away from Barcelona.

Atletico tied. And thanks for the work of Joao, the best among the locals, somewhat achieved when there was still a quarter of an hour left in the game, extension included. Long time to think a point had been saved. But they succeeded, with a miraculous stoppage of Lecomte. It was a point of gold and diamonds, which did not separate Espanyol from the relegation zone but which helped him gain confidence and believe in himself.

The match card

Athletic: Oblak (6); Molina (7), Savic (6), Giménez (5), Reinildo (5); Llorente (6), De Paul (5), Kondogbia (5), Carrasco (6); Griezmann (5) and Morata (6).

Coach: Diego Simeon (6)

Changes: Correa (7) for De Paul (m. 46), Joao (8) for Carrasco (m. 65), Witsel (5) for Kondogbia (m. 65), Lemar (6) for Griezmann (m. 72) and Cunha (6) by Morata (d. 72).

Spanish: Lecomte (9); Óscar Gil (7), Calero (7), Cabrera (5), Brian Oliván (6); Vini Souza (5), Darder (8), K. Baré (5); Aleix (6), Joselu (7), Braithwaite (4).

Coach: Diego Martinez (7)

Changes: S. Gómez (7) for Baré (m. 33), Puado (6) for Braithwaite (m. 55), Simo (6) for Oliván (m. 55), Omar (sc) for Gil (m. 87) and Lozano (sc) by Aleix (d. 87).

Goals: 0-1, Darder (d. 62). 1-1, Joao (d. 78).

Referee: Pulido Santana (canary) (6).

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Cards: Cabrera (red, d. 28), Olivan (d. 33), Braithwaite (d. 52), Kondogbia (d. 58), Lecomte (d. 73), Giménez (d. 82), Aleix (d. 84) , Joao (d. 86)

Stadium: Metropolitan (50,007 viewers)



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