• Classification: This is the group H

Pablo Machín already has his first victory. He managed, curiously, in the Europa League, a competition that, right now, is the least important: what matters most is the League. His team was enough with a goal loaded with mischief by Victor Campuzano to win a suffered victory against Ludogorets (0-1), which also allows him to rise as leader of his group. And that many pieces called to be key in the schemes of the team initially stayed in the fridge. [Narration and statistics]

The coach booked Matías Vargas , Marc Roca , Sergi Darder or Facundo Ferreyra , and even opted to leave Víctor Sánchez or David López directly at home, among others. A list of absences also extended by the injured Piatti, Puado, Calero and Calleri and by an Adrià Pedrosa suffering from gastroenteritis . But the rotations, in this case, didn't feel bad at all. The Blue and Whites perhaps did not offer their best face throughout the entire match, but were able to maintain order at all times and that allowed them to win a triumph that, surely, will allow them to face the complicated duel against Levante of this Sunday with the morale through the clouds.

Campuzano's goal was worth its weight in gold. The young striker took advantage of a clearance by Lluís López to beat Forster's back and beat Iliev before the first quarter of the game was completed. The goal allowed him to largely control the times, before an opponent forced to row against the tide and who failed to find the corresponding reaction almost until the final stretch of the first half. Always, with very little mordant. Something almost inexplicable, if we take into account the 5-1 achieved against the CSKA in Moscow.

The Ludogorets insisted on his harassment of the rival goal after the break, but he was convicted of that lack of aim that is so chasing the Blue and Whites in the League. Espanyol, meanwhile, tried to contemplate and look for the final thrust against it. A task for which Machín would recruit the initially reserved Matías Vargas, Marc Roca and Facundo Ferreyra, but that was not finally accomplished, after complicating even more with the late expulsion of Javi López .

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