Espanyol returns to battle. The Ramis project is starting to take off. With a double from Braithwaite before half an hour, it was enough to scare away the doubts and see us again at the top, within a point of the second place, which is also worth the longed-for direct promotion.
Intensity, verticality, effectiveness and seriousness. These four ideas were indeed a good letter of introduction for the new coach, unlike the one seen in Oscar in his debut.
Two streaks were cut in Cornellà. Espanyol went four games without a win, while Elche arrived with six games without losing. The locals overturned their delicate situation, while the visitors saw the end of their good time, which had allowed them to rejoin the fight for promotion.
The white-and-blue triumph rounded off an auspicious day for the parakeet interests, who were the only team from the upper zone to win. None of the top three picked up the three points, and in addition, Zaragoza and Tenerife lost presumably simple games.
Expert at complicating life in the recent past, Espanyol had a solid and convincing performance. The team needed it and so did its fans, after a lost month, including the dismissal of Luis García.
If anything was clear, it is that, under Ramis' command, Espanyol will not be a team that waits or goes out to speculate. No, the parakeet players bit the Elx from the start and showed their fangs. The sharpest, those of Braithwaite, who took the goal-scoring responsibility without Puado. Faced with the absence of Segona's pichichi, the Danish forward, with the power that characterizes him, showed himself as a skillful and reliable stiletto. His double widened the difference on the scoreboard, a distance that Elx was never in a position to disturb Pacheco.
Since the 5th of October, Braithwaite has not scored from a play. But the first two he had yesterday he sent into the back of the net. Whether they crossed to him from the left, as in the first goal, in which he finished a delivery from Oliván, or assisted him from the right, as in the second goal, when he received from Expósito and with great controlled control he entered the area and shot San Román with a right-footed shot.
Espanyol have injured, in addition to Puado, Melamed and Pol Lozano, perhaps their two most talented midfielders, but found in Aguado a creator who gives a lot of pace and mobility to the game. The Andalusian did not play a single minute in Huesca and instead took the helm of the team with judgment.
A good find for Ramis, who is on the ramp thanks to Braithwaite, but couldn't get Milla to regain her sense of smell. It was Keita Baldé, his substitute, who came closest to the third, but the post left him without the icing on the cake.
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Coach: Luis Miguel Ramis
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Coach: Sebastián Beccacece
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Referee: Moreno Aragón (c. Madrid)
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