Just three days ago, Josean Querejeta , maximum shareholder of Deportivo Alavés, read the booklet to the players for their lousy performance in the last few days, exempting their coach from blame: "It is not a question of the coach, it is a question of the players". Three days and a new loss later, Asier Garitano has been dismissed as coach of the albiazul team, after adding one victory and six losses, the last five in a row, since he returned from competition.

Garitano is the fourth coach removed in the First Division in the last two weeks, the seventh including Second Division. An unprecedented bleeding of coaches during this new normal of Spanish football. In the highest category, Abelardo (Espanyol), Rubi (Betis) and Celades (Valencia) fell before him and Guti (Almería), Curro Torres (Lugo) and Martí (Girona) did so in the silver division .

Garitano's replacement was already scheduled for the summer, despite the fact that Bergara's coach had an automatic renewal clause in case of permanence. Sustained for many months by the state of grace in front of goal of Lucas Pérez and Joselu , his proposal has not finished pleasing the leaders of Alavés, who will seek a change of direction for the next season.

If they have advanced the decision it is because they fear that the team will collapse in the four remaining days. The team from Vitoria has 35 points, six more than Mallorca, which is the one that defines salvation. A rollover is difficult, but not impossible. Still less seeing the recent performance of the team, with five consecutive defeats, some of them very painful, as the 6-0 two weeks ago in Vigo.

The game that has put the nail on the head is the defeat this Saturday at José Zorrilla against Valladolid, with a goal by Joaquín in the last minutes. The club has yet to announce Garitano's replacement for the last four games of the season. Whoever arrives, a priori a man of the house, will face the threat of a diabolical calendar: Real Madrid, Getafe, Betis and Barcelona.

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