LaLiga Smartbank 2020 - 2021 Second Division Classification
Espanyol is already First
.
Once again, the blue and white team has repeated history: each and every time they have been condemned to lose the category, they have managed to seal their return the following season to their relegation.
Now, his great objective, as admitted by his own coach,
Vicente Moreno
, is to also do it as Second Division champion.
Something that, in fact, already happened in the 1993-94 campaign.
So, the parakeets added 20 wins, 12 draws and six losses.
For now, Vicente Moreno's Espanyol has already surpassed that record of matches won.
After getting the tables against
Zaragoza
in the Romareda, he has 23 wins, nine draws and six defeats.
And, furthermore, they are
the highest-scoring team
, with 66 goals scored, and
the least scored
, with 23 conceded, of the entire category.
The Blue and Whites have been particularly strong at home, where they have managed to accumulate 15 defeated matches out of 19, scoring 40 goals and conceding only nine.
Of course, no means have been spared to achieve this new lightning climb. Espanyol, in fact, presented the
highest budget of all
Second Division teams: 45.3 million euros. History, despite everything, has taught us that a large economic investment and the experience accumulated in the elite are not always a guarantee of success. Especially when it comes to fighting in a category where things have gotten very tight over the last few decades. If not, let them tell
Atlético de Madrid
. The rojiblanco team was condemned to relegation at the end of the 1999-2000 season and did not manage to return to the First
Division
until 2002, with a myth like
Luis Aragoné
at the head of his bench.
Money, although it does not always guarantee success, of course, has certainly ended up playing a decisive role as well. Not surprisingly, the most expensive player in the club's history,
Raúl de Tomás
, has been absolutely
decisive
. The forward has accumulated a total of
22 goals in 35 games
, a mark that has allowed him to be at the top of the table of top scorers. However, he could not celebrate the promotion with the rest of his colleagues: he tested positive for Covid-19 this week and has had to remain confined to his home.
The contribution of a young
talent
formed in the blue and white quarry has also been very important:
Javi Puado
. The coach told him from the beginning that he would have a determining weight in his plans throughout this season and the youth squad has responded by becoming the
second highest scorer
in the squad. The renewal of his contract, which ends on June 30 next year, is currently on hold. Something that they could take advantage of from England to get their services this summer. In the club, however, their continuity has already been marked as one of the great short-term priorities.
The team, of course, arrived at the momentous appointment of
La Romareda
with morale through the roof. The streak of 14 consecutive games without defeat, reinforced by the seven wins achieved in the last eight games, placed him only one step away from finally sealing the goal. The tie sealed away against Almería, despite the fact that Raúl de Tomás missed a penalty that could have meant victory for his team, was also a real boost. His start to the season, in fact, already gave serious hope that his story of lightning promotions was going to repeat itself. In the first five days, he added 13 points out of 15 possible and did not concede his first defeat until his visit to Vallecas to face
Rayo
.
The trajectory of the team, in general, has only had the occasional blur.
He has practically always managed to stay in the top two positions.
And Espanyol even smiled the goddess Fortuna with a home draw against
Mirandés
, playing with one less footballer, on matchday 29. That match, in the end, would be the prelude to this latest great streak that has now been sealed. in
Zaragoza
with his mathematical return to the top flight of Spanish football.
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