History plays in favor of Espanyol.
The blue and white club, after signing their
fifth relegation to the Second
Division last season, hopes to repeat the script that starred in the four previous occasions that they found their bones in the silver category and, as Atlético pointed out after seeing themselves in this circumstance Two decades ago, spending only "a little year in hell", despite the fact that it would take the mattresses two in the end to achieve it.
This Saturday, at 9:00 p.m., against Albacete, he starts his fight to achieve a lightning promotion again.
The category, however, is tremendously competitive.
This has been shown in recent years.
The differences between one and the other are minimal.
Very few points have separated the honeys of the triumph from an even harder fall in the rankings that have been sealed after the dispute in recent seasons.
With all that in mind, and with a squad reinforced only with
three signings
and in which up to seven casualties have occurred, Vicente Moreno will in turn seek to repeat the promotion he already signed with Mallorca in the 2018-19 campaign.
A glory that was ephemeral for the Balearic team, but that he aspires to turn his new club into something much more permanent.
The only three signings that the parakeet entity has closed so far are those of
Fran Mérida, Óscar Gil and Miguelón
.
The latter, on loan from Villarreal.
The list of players who have been part of the first squad and who have left the entity in recent weeks is much longer.
Pipa was transferred to Huddersfield, of the English second division.
A category in which he will coincide with Andrés Prieto, who has joined Aitor Karanka's Birmingham with the freedom letter under his arm.
Víctor Gómez, meanwhile, will play on loan at Mirandés.
Javi López, captain in recent years, Víctor Sánchez, Ander Iturraspe and Naldo, meanwhile, find themselves without a team after having abandoned the Blue and White discipline.
The club has also recovered three players who have been playing on loan in other
teams, Javi Puado, Álex López and Lluís López
.
And it also continues to have renowned footballers, such as Diego López, David López, Wu Lei, Matías Vargas or Raúl de Tomás.
The performance of the latter two, the two most expensive signings in the club's history, however, was not up to par in the closing stages of last season.
«Nobody has told me that I can't count on one player or another.
We will use those who we think are better at all times, we will not take the market into account when making the line-up, ”Vicente Moreno stressed this week.
The Blue and White coach knows very well that the path to return to the First Division will not be easy.
But, despite everything, he wanted to send a message full of optimism to the Blue and White fans.
“We want to show them that we want to return the team to where it needs to be.
We want to be at the level of the fans.
They will help us, first from home, and then from the pitch, ”the Espanyol coach pointed out.
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