• Tribute: Espanyol wins with dedication to Dani Jarque

It was enough for Espanyol with 45 minutes to turn Zorya Lugansk's dream into a nightmare . And, incidentally, lay the foundations to sign, at once, his much-desired return to Europe. The Ukrainians put things very uphill ahead of the scoreboard, but Chucky Ferreyra, Javi López and Matías Vargas , with a new goal, allows him to travel to Ukraine with half-done duties (3-1), but without falling asleep in the Laurels

The Zorya Lugansk coach Viktor Skripnik said it in the previous one: nobody was going to ban them from dreaming of giving another bell. And, of course, they got down to work. From the first minute. His team jumped to the pitch with that push that gives the fact of knowing that he has a lot to gain and nothing to lose. He pressed the unspeakable to a Espanyol in which David Gallego wanted to seek more touch and offensive quality than power and ended up taking a more than deserved reward for his effort with the action of 0-1. Kochergin, after a counterattack and assistance with Kobayev's heels , woke up the worst demons of the blue and white parish.

It was a jug of ice water for the followers who approached Cornellà-El Prat . They did not expect, sure, that the reality bath that Sevilla had given them in the League would last over the first 45 minutes before a team that, above all, claw to overwhelm a theoretically superior rival. Gallego's bid for a 4-3-3 with Iturraspe escorting Darder and Barn in the spinal cord and Puado, Ferreyra and Wu Lei on tip did not give the expected result. Nor did things initially improve the entry of Marc Roca by the injury of the former Athletic. All in all, even the rival, the clearest options had been his. Nor did it help them that Wu Lei insistently claimed a penalty in the addition of the first part: the referee did not understand it as such.

Things got even more complicated with a new injury: that of Dídac . Víctor Sánchez had to take care of relieving him after the break. In spite of everything, a good header from Wu Lei, repelled by the crossbar, allowed the locals to meet again with their best sensations, no matter how much excess precipitation from the locals removed their stomachs again. Espanyol needed patience. And his pause had a prize. Ferreyra, taking advantage of a measured center of Puado, was responsible for returning equality to the scoreboard . A tie that could have broken Barn after a penalty by Mykhaylichenko, but the midfielder crashed his shot against Shevchenko when many already took almost 2-1 for granted.

More successful, on the other hand, was the captain, Javi López, to advance his team to just over ten minutes to go . Darder's pass, to tell the truth, already deserved that the ball end up kissing the net. And things were already completely face for the blue and whites with a counter perfectly culminated by Matías Vargas . His shot, similar in part to the first that marked as a parakeet, sought, and found, the opposing goal squad. The Europa League is only 90 minutes away from being an incontestable reality . And we must put the five senses to ensure it.

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