It is difficult to find similarities between Rafa Benítez’s Celta and Claudio Giráldez’s. Just three weeks have been enough to change almost everything, to stir ideas and concepts and set out in search of salvation along a different path. However, there is something that keeps them closely united. Claudio’s team seems to have inherited part of the misfortune that Rafa Benítez accumulated to the point of boredom in that tragic start to the season. Against Rayo, without playing a dazzling game, Celta can regret that all the “details” always fell into the rival’s bag.
Giraldez’s team He crashed two balls into the woodpassionately demanded a penalty that, beyond the possible theatrical excess of Iago Aspas, is always called, and as if that were not enough Hernández Hernández Jailson’s legal goal was disallowed due to a push in the area that only he noticed. The game is summarized in this disastrous catalog. Celta should have won even if it were only through insistence and desire against a Rayo Vallecano that put up a fierce fight, especially in the first half, but that paid for the effort as the minutes passed and ended up resisting as best it could the last charge of the vigoes
Few reproaches can be leveled at Claudio in his exciting premiere in Balaídos. Celta was not a brilliant team, but it was tenacious. He clings to a game idea and tries to defend it passionately, being aware of its dangers but above all of the benefits it entails if interpreted correctly.
Rayo did not make things easy for him because Iñigo Pérez, another young football scholar and coach who will have to be kept track of, has been bored these two weeks of studying Giráldez’s method. Far from getting into his area, he went in search of a Celta who repeated Seville’s idea. Arriving through the pass, looking for the space that was generated on the sides (Hugo Alvarez initially went to the right on this occasion) after attracting the rival in the center. It was difficult to generate the Vigo team that dominated good stretches of the game, but always felt threatened by the Madrid team that, thanks to the work of its media, compromised Beltrán and Sotelo, and looked for a mistake (it happened to Starfelt at the beginning of the crash) or a ball behind the center backs to punish Claudio’s proposal.
It was originally a game without great opportunities, with the teams grunting but without actually biting. Like dogs that challenge each other through a fence but then, without it, elegantly keep their distance. Dimitrievski always had more work than an unprecedented Guaita despite the fact that Celta suffered to have continuity in their progressions. He did it in dribs and drabs because of the good work of the people from Madrid and the poor footing of the people from Vigo where the criteria of Hugo Alvarez and Beltrán were the most recognizable in Claudio’s model.
Hugo Sotelo was imprecise (although he leaves details of an astonishing class); Bamba lost in that job of coming to the middle to free the band and thus lose his main qualities; Aspas was completely wrong and Larsen must still have been mulling over the translation of his interview in Norway because his body was in Balaídos, but his mind was not. Even so, the Norwegian had the clearest chance in a cross from Hugo Alvarez who headed perfectly into the woodwork. Even the rebound, which seemed to go in the direction of Bamba, was deflected by Dimitrievski acrobatically with his foot.
In the second half the game maintained the same tone. Rayo felt comfortable against a Celta that looked for alternatives (Tapia entered for Starfelt to help get the ball out because those from Vallecas always denied Mingueza, their great concern). Determined to remove the tree, Claudio brought on Jailson to put the Brazilian at the origin of the game and place Tapia in the center of the field. It was then when the game began to lean towards the Rayo Vallecano area. Iñigo Pérez’s men were no longer able to put pressure with the freshness of the first half. Celta had increased resources to build the game and although they made a couple of hopeful transitions, the game began to take on a light blue color.
It happened then that the ghosts that haunted Rafa Benítez (before the team’s game changed) came out of their hiding place to present themselves to Claudio Giráldez. Because in the 66th minute Hernández Hernández incomprehensibly disallowed a goal from Jailson who brilliantly finished off a free kick taken from the right by Oscar Mingueza. An alleged push (or rather a blow) from Carlos Domínguez was the justification that the Canary Islands referee found for leaving Celta with a half-hearted shout. That action, which generated the logical protest in Balaídos, ended up driving Celta into the field of the Vallecanos who took out their umbrellas to resist. The Vigo team were already finding their way, almost always on the right wing (decisive that Hugo Alvarez played on this side due to his impact on the game) and with Carles Pérez and Douvikas, who entered perhaps later than necessary in place of Larsen, On the field Claudio added new threats.
The match was close to falling on the side of the Vigo team. Tapia missed a shot completely alone and shortly after it was Douvikas who headed slightly wide in a very difficult position. Celta did not stop insisting, in an exercise of enormous generosity, that he found himself with the misfortune of an insane discount. First, the Vigo team claimed a penalty for knocking down Iago Aspas when the man from Moana was left alone against Dimitrievski after receiving a good pass from Mingueza. There may have been plenty of gestures in his fall, but it is almost impossible to find a situation in which a penalty is not awarded in an action like this, when the goalkeeper is about to be executed by the striker.
Balaídos was roaring when in his last attack the ball sought out Carles Pérez on the edge of the area and the Catalan unleashed an impressive whiplash, similar to that of Sánchez Pizjuán two weeks ago, and the ball crashed violently into the crossbar of the goal vallecana. With that dry sound in their heads, the people went home. Without reproaches or bad faces.
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2024-04-01 04:10:04
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