Not even the most optimistic parakeet can bet on the salvation of the Spanish. There are not a few who prefer to stop suffering and that the entity focuses on working on the project for next season in Monday
Division. But the obligation and the desire, at least of Rufete, is to fight until the last breath, until mathematically impossible, for that chimera that has martyred the team throughout this year. Celta’s defeat in Mallorca invites us to do the milkmaid accounts Espanyol with a tailored schedule, with rivals from his League (Leganés, Eibar and Celta) and the challenge of the derby in the Camp
New on the horizon. But every possible cabal goes through getting a win tonight at the Reale Arena against a Real Sociedad at low hours.
The parakeet team will start the bottom game at ten points from Celta (34 points). In the absence of six days, the maximum score to which Rufete’s group can aspire if it achieves a full triumph is 42 points, a theoretical figure in which salvation is set each season. Any setback, therefore, would mean a definitive step back, which would also help the rest of their rivals live more calmly for the remainder of the season.
With the water up to the neck
A defeat at Anoeta could provoke the descent of Espanyol as early as next Sunday
Real Sociedad, a Spanish executioner in the Copa del Rey with Abelardo on the bench, arrives at the much-needed duel. The San Sebastian players accumulate four consecutive defeats, one more than Espanyol, and they need the points to maintain the seventh place that gives access to European competitions next season. This crisis of results fuels Rufete’s hope, although perhaps for that reason it will be more difficult to achieve all three points.
The parakeet coach opens at home with all his important men available, and it remains to be seen if he will keep the 4-2-3-1 he used against Real Madrid and that allowed him to offer a more convincing image despite the defeat. In addition, the question of who will occupy the right side remains, since in the last three days Javi López, Pipa and the young Víctor Gómez have taken turns.
For several games, Espanyol has stopped depending on itself. With six appointments ahead, it seems essential that the results of their direct rivals accompany this impossible moment to avoid the descent. A victory would open a slit of hope in a task practically unattainable. A defeat would bring the possibility that the parakeets were a Second Division team already on the next day, against Leganés, one before the fearsome visit to the Camp Nou.
