So many times an expert in lamentations, a champion of their own misfortune and a master of fragility... This time Espanyol chose to live. He demanded to be orderly and cheerful, solid and robust, cerebral and lively. This is how you get out of depression. This is how you can travel to success. But he didn't need Luis García's team so much. Only win Getafe to believe. And he did. Nine games later and with my heart in a fist. In addition, he allowed himself the luxury of convincing. Although he was not easy at all. Bordalás teams never have it. But adding three by three is a decisive first step, which must join others, much more difficult, yes. For now, the parakeet team is two points away from salvation. He faced death and came back unscathed.
So many times buried in life, against Getafe, Espanyol felt that he was attending his funeral. And he rebelled. He did not accept the probable fate of him and used the last letter from him to get the better of him. Finally, the personality that one day this team was presumed to command in the duel from the beginning appeared. Espanyol returned from the dead with courage. Luis García repeated the system of three centrals, but risked with a double offensive pivot with Darder and Denis Suárez, and Melamed between the lines. And the team responded. Everyone understood the message that there would be no possible tomorrow if the three points did not arrive.
Suddenly, the midfielders played judiciously, Melamed was the protagonist between the lines and reaching Soria's goal was a real possibility and not a pipe dream. It was the youth squad player who started in three quarters of the field and released a shot that Soria repelled before the tenth minute.
Espanyol commanded with long possessions, patiently, while their rival exerted high pressure that was intended to make their task difficult. Before half an hour a series of rebounds left Braithwaite before Soria again. The goalkeeper repelled the Dane's shot. Also that of Melamed, to whom the ball fell in the continuation. Clear occasions for which if they are forgiven, they pay dearly. The best of Getafe was a disconnection from Sergi Gómez that Mayoral could not take advantage of against Pacheco.
Espanyol felt superior. Denis Suárez drew with precision, Darder drove with success. Pedrosa deepened on the left and his center was finished off by Braithwaite. But Aleñá stretched out his arm and the VAR warned the referee of the penalty. Joselu scored his fourteenth goal of the season with solvency. The most necessary of all of them.
For the second time in a week, Espanyol left winning at half-time. It is the third in the entire League. Green shoots, steps forward. Luis García's team emits tangible signs that he wants to believe, that the hole he is in is not yet deep enough to be buried.
"Yes, you can!" Shouted the fans at rest. She had to finish the job with a second part to match. Getafe stretched and dangerously reached Pacheco's goal. First Duarte with a header, then two shots from Ünal from the front. Espanyol was looking for the ball, forgiving the second on multiple occasions.
The game emanated unbearable nervousness. Espanyol came more and better on the counterattack, but did not kill the game. Joselu had a corner shot after good driving by Darder. The one from Artá also assisted Puado, who erred in the one-on-one. Getafe did everything desperately and without any success. But until the end he pressed.
And the sun came out. Among the black clouds that settled over Cornellà and threatened a storm, some wonderful timid rays appeared that illuminated Luis García's first victory with Espanyol. And who knows if a road that could be First.
1 - Spanish: Pacheco; Óscar Gil (Aleix Vidal, min.86), Calero, Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Pedrosa (Oliván, min.74); Denis Suárez (Vini Souza, min.68), Darder, Nico Melamed; Braithwaite (Puado, min.86) and Joselu.
0 - Getafe: Soria; Damián, Alderete (Mitrovic, min.81), Duarte, Gastón (Angileri, min.81); Maksimovic, Aleñá (Munir, min.64), Gonzalo Villar (Mata, min.95), Portu; Borja Mayoral and Enes Ünal (Latasa, min.80).
Goal: 1-0, min.38: Joselu.
Referee: Sánchez Martínez (Murcia committee). A warning to Aleñá (min.37), Braithwaite (min.42), Álvaro Fernández (min.47), Duarte (min.51), Maksimovic (min.57), Nico Melamed (min.71), Gonzalo Villar (min. .73), Latasa (min.81) and Aleix Vidal (min.90).
Incidents: match corresponding to the thirty-second day of LaLiga Santander played at the RCDE Stadium before 26,953 spectators.
