Espanyol achieved its goal: to dedicate a victory to the memory of Dani Jarque and take a result that allows at least one foot in the final playoff of the previous Europa League. The Blue and Whites cost more than expected, but finally Chucky Ferreyra, Dídac Vilà and Matías Vargas, the most expensive signing of the club and which scored a great goal in their debut, reflected a clear 0-3.

Lucerne's potential has nothing to do with that of Stjarnan, Espanyol's first rival in the fight to get fully into the Europa League. The Swiss have more quality than the Icelanders, but the blue and white are, or should be, several steps ahead. In spite of everything, the whole of David Gallego cost God and helps to capture his theoretical superiority on the scoreboard throughout a first part in which, perhaps, they lacked some serenity when organizing the game. The rush is always bad advisers and its excessive precipitation, on some occasions, facilitated the destructive work of an opponent who did not hesitate to threaten as soon as he could the domains of Diego López.

The blue and white scheme, with Dídac and Pedrosa sharing the left band, although with the latter in extreme functions, did not just give the right key to provide clear balls to some strikers, Borja Iglesias and Ferreyra, who are taken more performance with assists that force them to seek life. The Argentine, however, started and finished the play of the first goal of Espanyol. After picking up a ball in attack, he assisted Melendo to put him on the 0-1 tray with a perfectly topped head center.

The goal, before the first half hour of the game was fulfilled, of course, had a special dedication for Dani Jarque, but did not help Espanyol better control the times. The Blue and Whites still had a hard time approaching the rival area with real danger. Almost, as if they were incarnations of that Sisyphus condemned to bring again and again a rock to the top of a mountain only to see how it was falling apart when it was about to reach the top.

The Lucerne also found an ideal occasion to punish an unfortunate blanquizaul lack of control behind the final stretch of the first half. Diego López managed as he could to abort Kakabadze's shot and, in the end, the blood did not reach the river. The locals, despite the 0-1 and their lack of aim in their clearest option, premiered the second part with a clear initial dominance over a Espanyol that had to look for quick combinations to overcome its suffocating pressure. A resurgence that was about to sign Borja Iglesias with 0-2, although his shot was finally sent to corner by Müller.

The one who did not forgive the second was Dídac. Marc Roca extended a ball towards the bottom line so that the side sought by Valencia, almost without an angle, sent a powerful shot to the bottom of the net. And Matías Vargas, who finally had minutes, with a shot that drew a perfect parable towards the opposite goal, sentenced the game. And also, the tie. The CSKA of Sofia or the Ukrainian Zorya Lugansk, who finished their duel in Bulgaria with 1-1 in the light, will be the last obstacle to return definitively to Europe.

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