Quique Setién Solar (Santander, 65 years old) kissed perfection with a UD baroque in 2015-16 and 2016-17. He was the leader of the First Division and the (3-3) at the Santiago Bernabéu –March 2017– was the Van Gogh of the matches. Pure art. However, on March 18, 2017, he confirmed his departure from UD and the team fell into a perverse degree of relaxation. The total disconnection left unseemly numbers in the second round for the island club: four wins, two draws and thirteen losses. In addition, 25 goals for and 44 goals against in that stretch of 19 games.
The Cantabrian strategist left UD in the eleventh position in 15-16 with 44 points –after replacing Paco Herrera–. In his second season in yellow (16-17), he added 39 points and after the last defeat against Deportivo in Riazor, led by Mel, he stayed in 14th position. Xavi García Pimienta has 37 points and occupies eleventh position. There are nine battles left to close. Europe awaits with five points – Betis looks 42 in seventh place –, a position that opens the dream of the Conference as long as Athletic wins the Cup (the final is on Saturday, April 6 against Club Atlético Osasuna).
Wear due to non-renewal
The Barcelona strategist, after an outstanding first round, seems to have been bewitched by Setién syndrome. In the Cantabrian’s first ten UD matches in the second round of 16-17 – from the 20th to the 29th round – he had recorded three wins, two draws and six losses. Eleven points, 17 goals for and 18 against. For his part, after the defeat against bottom team Almería in Siete Palmas, with Pimienta there are three victories, three draws and four defeats (twelve points, only one unit more than Setién). Thirteen goals in favor and fifteen against (which leaves a difference of -2).
The negotiations for Setién’s frustrated renewal ended squander a project who had been reinforced in January with Jesé Rodríguez, who had arrived from PSG, and former Barcelona player Alen Halilovic. But there was no way. Those 44 goals against are devastating data. Proof of this were the defeats conceded against RCD Espanyol (4-3), Athletic Club de Bilbao in San Mamés (5-1), CD Leganés (3-0), Atlético de Madrid (0-5), FC Barcelona ( 1-4) and Dépor (3-0).
García Pimienta is getting his doctorate in his debut in Primera. On matchday 24, after beating Valencia (2-0), he had only received twenty goals. With just 28 million invested in the team, he was working a sporting miracle. But the passage through the Cívitas Metropolitano (5-0) activated the crisis that would later be baptized as ‘something happens’. They succumbed to Atlético de Madrid, stumbled against Osasuna (1-1) and managed to equalize a 3-1 deficit against Getafe at the Coliseum. They fell to a Champions team like Athletic (0-2) and bottom team Almería (0-1).
In the duel of eternal morbidity, with the return of Jonathan Viera and José Mel Pérez, the yellows showed off their most vulnerable side. Sergi Cardona couldn’t beat Ramazani and the Indalic bloc found a highway. Without defensive forcefulness, there is a lack of precision in the opposing area. There are two games without scoring and Munir was taken off at half-time.
Batir a Kresic
Beyond the option of playing in Europe, Pimienta is looking for incentives. “We will compete to the maximum these last nine days,” he reiterated last Sunday. The first motivational point is to surpass Kresic’s 46 points in 00-01. This UD of Pimienta can become the best team of the century. But first he must overcome Setién’s two marks (44 and 39). This supportive team has it within reach in the goal and that had Álvaro Valles and Kirian Rodríguez on the pre-list of Luis de la Fuente’s National Team.
Barcelona, Sevilla, Celta de Vigo, Girona, Real Sociedad, Mallorca, Betis, Cádiz and Alavés make up the remaining calendar for the yellows. Avoid a Setién and reach the best mark of the century.
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2024-03-20 00:49:29
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